Musk's representatives have not commented on St. Clair's TikTok revelations, maintaining silence while the former conservative influencer shares her side of their romance timeline.
Insiders suggest Musk has a pattern of becoming distant once pregnancies are confirmed — his custody battle with Grimes over their children and now threats against St. Clair paint a consistent picture of a man who wants control without commitment.
St. Clair announced in February 2025 she secretly welcomed Romulus five months earlier, making the child Musk's 14th known child; Musk threatened to sue for custody in January 2026 after St. Clair apologized for past transphobia.
This is a classic case of a powerful man losing interest once the pregnancy test turns positive — and now he's weaponizing the legal system against the mother of his child.
Ashley St. Clair is finally telling her side of the story, and it paints Elon Musk as someone who checked out emotionally the moment fatherhood became unavoidable. In a TikTok "GRWM" video that has since gone viral, the 27-year-old former conservative influencer explained exactly when things went sideways with the Tesla CEO — and the timing is damning.
"As soon as I'm pregnant, this is when things start getting weird," St. Clair told her followers in the now-deleted upload. "There's just things that are not adding up or that are different from what he previously said to me." She described Musk's behavior before pregnancy as "normal" and even claimed he was "funny" in private — but everything changed once she confirmed she was expecting their son, Romulus.
The relationship timeline reveals a calculated approach on Musk's part. St. Clair shared that they discussed having a child together during a getaway to St.
Barts, with the tech billionaire reportedly telling her, "You should have kids, my only limited resource is time." For a woman who was already raising a son from a previous relationship and struggling with financial anxiety about single motherhood in today's economy, Musk's offer must have seemed like a lifeline. "I wanted nothing more than to be a mom and not have to worry about the s--t going on in this economy," she admitted in the video.
But here's where it gets really messy — St. Clair filed for sole custody of Romulus back in February 2025, long before Musk made his custody threat public in January 2026. The Tesla founder's legal aggression came after St.
Clair issued a public apology for what she called her own past "blatant transphobia" — comments that had targeted the LGBTQ+ community and, notably, Musk's own trans daughter Vivian Wilson. Musk fired back on X with a threat to file for full custody, claiming St. Clair's apology implied she might transition her one-year-old son.
When pressed by CNN anchor Erin Burnett, St. Clair dismissed the accusation as obvious to anyone with "more than a third-grade reading comprehension level." The numbers tell their own story: Romulus is Musk's 14th confirmed child across multiple relationships — including twins Griffin and Vivian, triplets Saxon, Kai and Damian with ex-wife Justine Wilson; X AE A-XII, Exa Dark Sideræl and Techno Mechanicus with Grimes; and twins Strider and Azure plus a third child with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.
That's not a family portrait — that's a production line. And St. Clair's candid revelations suggest she was just another chapter in what appears to be Musk's pattern of emotional withdrawal once the biological reality sets in.
A representative for Musk did not respond to Page Six's request for comment on St. Clair's claims.
