One of Elon Musk’s former wives spilled romantic dirt on the billionaire in an effort to disprove that he’s a “cold and emotionless” businessman.
Actress Talulah Riley, whom Musk married and divorced twice, recounted a blowup the couple had one Christmas when they lived in Boulder, Colo., after he forgot to get her a gift.
“He is the most emotional person I know,” the “Pride and Prejudice” actress said in a new BBC documentary, “The Elon Musk Show,” about the mogul’s rise to fame and fortune, which debuted in the UK on Wednesday.
Riley said Musk “got up in the middle of the night and disappeared” before he “came back two hours later and he’d gone outside in his T-shirt and shorts, barefoot, and he’d gone and dug through the snow and picked flowers.”
“He’d walked all over Boulder and came back with a little bouquet of picked flowers, and he was like, ‘I just wanted to show you how much I loved you,’” she told the documentary.
Riley said the story illustrates how the narrative of Musk being “cold and emotionless” is false.
“He is the most emotional person I know,” said Talulah Riley, who was married to Musk between 2010 and 2012, and then again from 2013 to 2016. Bloomberg via Getty Images“That could not be further from the truth,” she said. “He has a kind of innocence to him. He feels with incredible purity the emotions that he is feeling at the time, whatever that emotion is. He feels very, very deeply.”
The couple was married between 2010 and 2012, and then again from 2013 to 2016. They did not have any children together after Musk had five kids with his first wife. He has since fathered four more kids.
Riley called the Tesla CEO the “perfect ex-husband.”
Riley called the Tesla CEO the “perfect ex-husband.” Bloomberg via Getty Images“The Elon Musk Show” is not broadcast outside the UK, but it is available on the BBC’s iPlayer streaming service.
