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Elon’s father is an engineer and like Elon, was born in South Africa. <\/p>\n
Though Errol said in a 2015 Forbes<\/em> interview that he used to often take his kids on trips overseas\u2014<\/span>“Their mother and I split up when they were quite young and the kids stayed with me. I took them all over the world.”\u2014his relationship with Elon isn’t picture perfect.<\/span><\/p>\n In an emotional 2017 Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> interview, Elon criticized his father and talked about his upbringing, saying that after his parents split, he moved in with\u00a0his dad, which, he said,\u00a0“was not a good idea.”<\/p>\n However, Errol told\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>,\u00a0“I love my children and would readily do whatever for them.”<\/p>\n Following his divorce from Maye, Errol married Heide<\/strong>, whose daughter\u00a0Jana Bezuidenhout<\/strong> was 4 years old at the time. Errol and Heide went on to have\u00a0two daughters together before\u00a0they, too, broke up.\u00a0<\/p>\n Years later, Jana reached out to Errol following a breakup of her own. “We were lonely, lost people,” Errol explained<\/a>\u00a0in a 2018 interview with The Sunday Times<\/em><\/a>. “One thing led to another\u2014you can call it God’s plan or nature’s plan.” <\/p>\n Either way, the duo became romantic and welcomed son Elliott<\/strong> in 2017 and then a baby girl in 2019. As Errol put it to The Sun<\/em><\/a>, “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce. If I could have another child I would. I can’t see any reason not to.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n