ELON Musk’s dad has hit back at bombshell claims that the world’s richest man is on drugs.
A deep dive on the tech tycoon published last week by The New Yorker magazine linked Musk’s “erratic behavior to efforts to self-medicate.”
The pugnacious piece by Hollywood scion Ronan Farrow repeated claims from 2018 that Tesla board members had expressed concern about Musk’s use of sleep aid Ambien.
It also stated that several people familiar with Musk’s habits had confirmed that he microdoses ketamine, which can be taken both as a depression treatment or a party drug.
The article pointed back to the moment Musk smoked pot on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in 2018, which led to a NASA safety review of SpaceX.
Meanwhile, an unnamed close colleague was quoted opining that 52-year-old Elon’s “life just sucks” due to the stress of running multiple highly successful and demanding businesses.
Musk’s retired electromechanical engineer dad Errol, 77, believes the claims are all part of a broader attack by Elon’s enemies.
He even appeared to link them to recent legal moves by the US government to go after Elon’s business interests.
Asked about the article, Errol exclusively told The U.S. Sun from his home in South Africa: “It’s a very worrying hit job on Elon, filled with blatant inaccuracies.
“Subject to the same scrutiny, 99.9 percent of those who view Elon in the light of this article would be condemned outright as a danger to society.