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Here's Why Elon Musk's Brother Called His Relationship With Amber Heard A "Nightmare"

Highlights

  • Elon Musk's brother, Kimbal Musk, describes Amber Heard as a "nightmare" and believes she has a toxic personality.
  • Kimbal Musk and other family members and friends disapproved of Elon's relationship with Amber Heard from the beginning.
  • Amber Heard's behavior during their relationship, including explosive fights and exaggerated claims, influenced Kimbal Musk's negative opinion of her.

Among the many high-profile celebrities Amber Heard has been reported to be engaged in, her relationship with Elon Musk not only caught the public's attention, but it also attracted speculation from Musk's family and friends. In particular, his brother Kimbal Musk had especially scathing remarks to make about his "toxic" relationship with Amber.

This actually shouldn't come as a shock, given the outcome of the defamation case between Heard and her ex-husband, Johnny Depp. Though there weren't any openly destructive encounters reported between the SpaceX founder and Amber Heard, his brother reveals in his new book why he thinks that Heard was a "nightmare," and why Elon has a habit of dating women who are walking red flags.

What Did Elon Musk's Brother Say About His Relationship With Amber Heard?

Elon Musk and Amber Heard's brief relationship was the subject of much scrutiny from the public, especially since the announcement of their romantic involvement came on the heels of news that Heard filed for divorce from actor Johnny Depp. But Musk's brother, Kimbal, as well as other family members and friends, disapproved of their relationship from the very beginning.

According to PageSix, journalist Walter Isaacson wrote in his new biographical book on Elon Musk that Kimbal Musk, as well as other friends and family, hated Amber Heard "with a passion that made their distaste for Justine pale." Justine Wilson is Elon's first wife of eight years, with whom he shares six children.

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Kimbal Musk is Elon Musk's younger brother, and has known him long enough to understand his personality. According to CNBC, the first software company Elon founded in 1995, Zip2, was made with the help of Kimbal, and eventually sold for about $300 million in 1999.

With that, it's safe to say that they have a longstanding history together. After describing his brother's relationship with Heard as a "nightmare," Kimbal had this to say about the SpaceX CEO's dating history: "It's really sad that he falls in love with these people who are really mean to him. They're beautiful, no question, but they have a very dark side and Elon knows they are toxic."

How Did Amber Heard's Behavior Influence Kimbal Musk's Opinion Of Her?

Elon Musk's relationship with Amber Heard, like her unstable marriage to Johnny Depp and many of her other highly-publicized romances, was extremely tumultuous and included periods of separation and reconciliation. According to People, Musk first took an interest in Heard in 2013, after seeing her in Machete Kills, a film that both him and Heard were a part of. However, she rejected the meeting arrangement because, at the time, she was married to Johnny Depp. They finally met several years later, in 2015, and were rumored to be secretly dating around that time. Around July 2016, they were seen together in the lobby of various luxurious hotels, merely months after Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp.

One year later, in July 2017, Elon Musk and Amber Heard announced that they had split up. But they reconciled just five months later, which is when Kimbal's suspicions about Amber Heard were confirmed after Elon, Heard, Kimbal, his wife, and kids took a trip to Brazil in December 2017. Here is a list of the highlights of Elon and Amber's relationship, according to People:

  • May 2016 - Met for the first time at the 2016 Met Gala
  • July 2016 - Elon and Amber spotted at the Delano South Beach hotel, Miami
  • August 2016 - Musk and Amber seen leaving The Box nightclub in London
  • April 2017 - Heard and Musk make their romance official on Instagram
  • May 2017 - Heard and Musk are seen strolling together during a date night in Australia
  • August 2017 - Elon Musk and Amber Heard announce their break-up
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According to Daily Mail, Kimbal witnessed Elon Musk and Amber Heard get into an explosive fight when they arrived at their hotel. The Aquaman actress locked herself in a room and "started yelling she was afraid she would be attacked and that Elon had taken her passport." Kimbal alluded to the fact that her behavior was exaggerated in this statement, 'She really is a very good actress so she will say things that you're like: "Wow, maybe she's telling you the truth", but she isn't.'

Is Elon Musk's Father To Blame For His Toxic Relationship With Amber Heard?

Fortunately, Elon Musk and Amber Heard's relationship never got to the point of marriage, but the tech mogul had been divorced three times before his year-long love affair with Amber. However, the relationship that proceeded after his breakup with Amber came in 2018 with Canadian musician, Grimes, with whom Elon has three children.

Like Kimbal, Grimes also observed the volatility that surrounded Heard, and even told Walter Isaacson when interviewed for Elon Musk's biography that, "He's attracted to chaotic evil." Of course, she was pointing out that Amber was the source of this chaotic evil.

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Grimes also went on to blame Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk, for his relationship with Amber Heard and his tendency to attract toxic love affairs. The 'Genesis' singer said this about why she believes Elon's upbringing with his father has had an impact on the type of women he attracts: "It's about his father and what he grew up with, and he is quick to fall back into being treated badly. He associates love with being mean or abusive." Elon himself has also described his relationship with Amber as "brutal," and has said that he is often a "fool for love."

What Does Elon Musk Think About His Relationship With Amber Heard?

When Walter Isaacson asked Elon Musk about his seemingly innocuous relationship with Amber Heard, he summed it up by saying, "It was brutal." And judging from the defamation case between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, "brutal" may be an understatement. While Musk and Heard have expressed their undying love and friendship for each other after the break-up, reports of the effects her toxicity had on him came from sources other than Kimbal and Grimes.

Musk's chief of staff, Sam Teller, compared Amber Heard's unsettling presence in Elon Musk's life to a comic book villain. He said, "She was like the Joker in Batman. She didn't have a goal or aim other than chaos. She thrives on destabilizing everything."

Teller also observed how their heated arguments and fights meant, "Musk would have to stay up all night fighting... and then he would not be able to get up until the afternoon." Obviously, if she didn't care about his mental health and productivity, Elon would wonder whether Heard ever liked him to begin with.

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