Ashley St. Clair feels “jilted and terrified” after Elon Musk refused to come back to her assist when reporters started snooping round their toddler son, a good friend of the right-wing influencer tells The Put up.
St. Clair’s choice to publicly name out Musk, 53, as her child daddy wasn’t some “Meghan Markle-esque plea for attention” — however moderately a plea for assist from the world’s richest man, mentioned pal Emma-Jo Morris.
“Ashley got wind that a tabloid was kicking the tires on her, and she reached out to Elon immediately. He basically cut bait, and so the message was understood that she was on her own,” mentioned Morris, who was previously deputy politics editor at The Put up.
“At that time, she realized, ‘OK, I’m out within the chilly, I’ve to deal with this myself.’ “
Morris mentioned Musk’s “hostile” actions left St. Clair with no selection however to “tell the story” earlier than anybody else may.
Musk didn’t reply to a Put up request for remark Monday.
St. Clair, 26, ignited a sensational drama by publicly naming Musk as the daddy of her son and accusing the billionaire of stalling in hanging an settlement along with her to acknowledge the boy, who can be Musk’s thirteenth youngster.
Morris, a political marketing consultant who has been in touch with St. Clair all through the ordeal, mentioned the mother “anticipated it will be an association just like that he has together with his different child mamas: She would elevate the kid, and Elon can be peripherally current of their lives.
“It’s a very hostile action [by Musk] not to respond when the mother of your son calls and says, ‘The press is hounding me, what do I do?’ ” Morris mentioned.
“This is about letting herself tell the story before somebody else tells it for her and potentially either causes her reputational damage or harm.”
After St. Clair’s posts on X about her son, she spoke solely to The Put up about her romance with Musk.
Musk has not formally claimed parenthood for St. Clair’s son but, though Saturday, he responded “whoa” to a put up on X asserting that she had tried to ensnare the multi-billionaire for 5 years.
This prompted the previous Babylon Bee author to reply with a since-deleted reply accusing Musk of responding publicly to “smears” in opposition to her.
“Elon, we have been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded. When are you going to reply to us instead of publicly responding to smears from an individual who just posted photos of me in underwear at 15 years old?” she wrote on X.
Morris mentioned Musk’s dealing with of the state of affairs has left St. Clair feeling “equally devastated and freaked out.
“On the one hand, it’s biological, you expect protection [from] who is the father of your son, and there is an emotional tie between them,” she mentioned of Musk and St. Clair.
“On the other hand, you are the mother of the richest and one of the most controversial men in the world’s kid. You’re a single woman living with two children. That is absolutely terrifying. I think she feels equally jilted and terrified,” Morris mentioned of St. Clair, who additionally has one other youngster.
If St. Clair’s claims are true, then her son is Musk’s thirteenth youngster with 4 totally different girls.
He has six kids from his first marriage to Canadian writer Justine Wilson, the primary of whom, Nevada Alexander, tragically died at simply 10 weeks outdated.
Musk additionally has three kids together with his former companion, the pop star Grimes, together with little X, who has been seen alongside his father at a variety of necessary public occasions, such because the presidential inauguration and his assembly with President Trump within the Oval Workplace.
The SpaceX billionaire has an additional three kids with Shivon Zilis, an govt at certainly one of his corporations, Neuralink, together with twins Azure and Strider, who have been not too long ago noticed enjoying with their mother and father whereas Musk held a gathering with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Morris mentioned she doesn’t imagine that any of the opposite girls in Musk’s life have come ahead to supply help to St. Clair since she put out her authentic assertion Friday.
Tellingly, Zilis’s put up of her kids, which Musk responded with a coronary heart face emoji, got here fewer than two hours after St. Clair replied to Musk’s put up “smearing” her.
Morris mentioned her pal is placing her kids first and isn’t involved with the posts of Web trolls.
“That feels trivial to her right now. I don’t think she’s super concerned about it,” Morris mentioned. “I’m positive she’s learn it, she’s human, however on the identical time, I believe that that stuff is taking a backseat to attempting to get her state of affairs so as along with her children.
“I think that the s–t-talking online is probably the last thing that she’s thinking about.”
