Elon Musk would ‘wake up screaming’ over bankruptcy fears-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro

Elon was plagued by worries about money (Picture: BBC/72 Films/REUTERS)

Billionaire Elon Musk would wake up in the night ‘screaming’ over bankruptcy fears, his ex-wife Talulah Riley has claimed.

The 51-year-old business mogul was married to the Pistol star between 2010 and 2012, before breaking up and later reconciling from 2013 to 2016.

According to Forbes at the time of writing, the Tesla founder is worth $221 billion (£199bn),making him the richest man in the world ahead of Bernard Arnault and his family and Jeff Bezos.

But despite his bulging bank balance, which is great than the GDP of some countries, Talulah has said he was concerned by thoughts of losing it all.

She explained: ‘He was trying to avoid bankruptcy. Every day Elon would come home and say, “That’s it.” He was being ridiculed by the press.

‘He would have these night terrors in the middle of the night. We’d be fast asleep and suddenly he would be screaming in his sleep, like he was trying to climb up and escape something.’

The 37-year-old actress went on to explain that Elon – who later married pop singer Grimes and has a total of eight children from various relationships – had even offered her a ‘way out’ of their relationship in the early days of his businesses but the pair got engaged just 10 days after they met in a London nightclub.

Talulah and Elon were on and off (Picture: Startraks Photo/REX/Shutterstock)

Speaking on BBC documentary The Elon Musk Show, she added: ‘All available resources had to be ploughed into the company. He gave me an out. He said, “This is going to be the hard part, you don’t have to stay for it.”

‘My first impressions were that he was very sweet, he seemed quite shy. He said “May I put my hand on your knee?” and I said, “OK go on then,” I thought it was quite sweet that he asked.

Elon is the richest man in the world (Picture: JIM WATSON / AFP)

‘Then one evening I remember he said would you like to come back to my hotel room so we can look at rocket videos? And I thought, OK, I’ll come back. And we did get into his hotel room… and he did just show me rocket videos.

Talulah added: ‘I moved straight into the home with all the children and it became a very real thing immediately. I think because of my youth, I was relatively gung-ho about it. Essentially our home life was work. We were focused on the companies and the children.’

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Elon is currently trying to purchase Twitter for a cool $44bn but has encountered several rocky patches.

This week a a new spat has broken about between the parties over a legal dispute linked to the earlier aborted buyout attempt.

The Elon Musk show debuts on BBC Two and iPlayer at 9pm on Wednesday October, 12.

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