I keep waiting for Amber Heard and Elon Musk’s breakup to get messy, but so far… it’s relatively tame. The Daily Mail initially reported that Elon dumped Amber and she is “devastated.” A source also claimed that Elon only recently discovered that Amber is “very manipulative and selfish.” The next day, Us Weekly reported their own story about the split, but their source (someone likely in Amber’s camp) made it sound like the split was mutual and that it was just a distance/work thing. I kept waiting to see what People Magazine would say – People sort of took Johnny Depp’s side – partially – during their divorce, and I strongly suspect that People Mag is never going to be full-on Team Amber about anything. Finally, on Monday afternoon, People published their confirmation that Elon and Amber were done. People makes it sound like Elon dumped her too.
Amber Heard and Elon Musk have called it quits. The stars’ whirlwind, date-filled romance has come to an end a little more than a year after they were first linked last summer, a source tells PEOPLE.
“They are no longer dating,” says the source. According to the source, Heard and Musk’s increasingly busy schedules contributed to the split.
“They had fun for a few months, but are both very busy with work now. It was getting hard to find time to see each other,” says the source, adding that Musk initiated the split. “Elon’s is working day and night. This is his life and he loves it. He is in no position to be in a relationship right now and ended it.”
The breakup comes as a shock, as the former love birds were recently spotted out, both donning smiles, in Los Angeles in June. One month earlier, Heard and Musk spent some time Down Under while Heard filmed Aquaman. In May, a source told PEOPLE that the stars were “very serious about each other. She spends a lot of time at his house and is very comfortable there. Amber’s also gotten to know his kids and spends time with them as well.”
So we now have two outlets claiming that Elon dumped Amber. It sounds like People spoke to someone in Elon’s camp… although I don’t know why Elon’s publicist would really bother confirming anything to People Magazine. Still, stranger things have happened. I get the feeling that Elon kind of got off on being with someone as famous as Amber, so maybe he does have a publicist who rings up People Mag. As for why he dumped her… it just feels like a major case of Be Careful What You Wish For. He liked chasing her. Once he had her locked down and ready for a proposal, he got bored. He seems like that guy too.
Also: Elon apparently left this comment on one of Amber’s Instagrams: “Btw, just to clear up some of the press storm this weekend, although Amber and I did break up, we are still friends, remain close and love one another. Long distance relationship when both partners have intense work obligations are always difficult, but who knows what the future holds.”
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Amber & Elon’s social media.
Well, it was nice of him to leave that comment on her IG. A grown-up thing to do.
That seems more likely to me than the “she cheated… with a woman!” theory.
Ya I don’t think she was gonna risk that wallet…
I think Amber is more into women…she’s got her crew and that’s when she looks over the moon happy. She seems to be with a guy when it benefits her…basically using them. This guy was pursuing her even before her marriage. I imagine she decided he’d be a better bet, money-wise. I won’t make any comments on her (and her friends) treatment of Johnny Depp…around here everyone has Amber’s back and nothing will change that. That’s fine.
Surprise, how did she think he got to where he is? All those sorts of people are driven and workaholics.
Here’s what I think happened: I think Elon Musk got busy with his work and started to neglect Amber. Amber Heard seems to me like the kind of person who expects a lot of attention in relationships, esp with respect to her emotional needs. Once he got too busy to really be in a position to do that, she likely brought it up with him, and they had an argument/fight that ultimately culminated in Elon Musk dumping her because she’s “high maintenance” and “emotionally manipulative.”
What pisses me off especially is the fact that people are somehow equating Amber Heard wanting a bit more attention and wanting her emotional needs met with her being emotionally manipulative. I think she’s been in a tough place in the last year or so, especially after the Johnny Depp nonsense, and it makes sense to me that she’d be seeking a sense of reassurance from her partner when it seems like he’s pulling back a lot without explanation. I don’t think that’s emotionally manipulative, and the way some outlets were reporting on this, it made it come off like he was an innocent party who was being trapped in Amber’s evil emotional web of trouble, when it’s much more likely that they’re both just horrendously poor at communicating their needs to each other and actually caring enough about each other to make sure their emotional needs are met.
Like, I work as an engineer in basically the same field as Elon Musk. I know how work can eat your soul up alive. I know that I too get really insecure sometimes if it feels like people are ditching me with no explanation. I know that it’s super easy to neglect people when you’re consumed with your work if you’re not careful. No one is perfect. But I make the effort to do something for my partner, even when I’m too busy to even breathe some days. It’s not emotionally manipulative of people to want to feel like they’re in a relationship with an actual person and not some ghost who’s here when it’s only convenient for them and gone when it isn’t.
I’m pretty sure Amber is also busy filming Aquaman right now.
You bet Heard is someone who plays games! I have been following her in the media from since she got together with JD. She very much seems to be the kind of woman who likes to increase her own value by insinuating that, at any given time, there are several suitors competing for her attentions. You know that kind of person. The sort of person who likes to play people off against each other. And no matter what is wrong with Musk (quite a bit probably and I don’t particularly like him at all), he wasn’t having the drama and intrigue. Too much work to do.
@six This is exactly what I mean when I say that people want to make it seem like Amber Heard is emotional and high maintenance.
No offence to you, I’m sure you mean well, but I don’t really “know that kind of person.” I see people who are, for whatever reason, unlucky in relationships, whether they’re romantic or platonic or relationships with other family members. I see people who have a poor sense of worth sometimes, that often translates to wanting to project a certain image of themselves to other people. Given that Amber Heard has a history of getting into some sh*tty relationships, I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt and just believe that she’s vulnerable and that that explains her behaviour better than any story that wants to make it seem like she’s some kind of malicious manipulator who was out to stir up drama for the sake of it. It’s much more likely that Elon Musk (a man who has a history of splitting up with partners because he’s too self-involved) doesn’t know how to cater to someone else’s needs for a change, or simply doesn’t want to. But that’s more of a reflection on him than it is a reflection on whatever “drama and intrigue” Amber Heard wants to stir up.
@A It is very well possible that Heard’s tendency to play people off against each other is largely unconscious (though she is 31 by now, you would expect someone to have developed some self reflection by that age). And yes, it could be traced back to lack of self-worth. Nonetheless, this is what I have seen from her. Calling the the paparazzi when she is going out with possible love interests, often when she is already in the early stages of a serious new relationship, is just one example. But with her, there is a very persistent pattern to it.
Hes a walking cliche with both ‘she’s crazy’ and ‘I’m too busy’.
He was Rebound Man anyway. It’s so tempting to get with Dude Who’s Been Pursing You right after a bad breakup, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be compatible. She can do better.
People in this country act like being a workaholic is some kind of virtue. It isn’t, if you care at all about your relationships.
Re “people n this country act like being a workaholic is some kind of virtue”.
ITA. Musk has five kids with his first wife (twins + triplets!). He has more money than God as the saying goes, so he doesn’t NEED more. But how much does he see his kids?
He has his kids 4 days a week. Takes them with him when he travels. They even go to a school he created a few doors down from his house.
I don’t really care at all about their relationship, but I do think he’s rather a dick to allow a closeness to develop between her and his kids and then to take that away.
I think she took one look at the oooops I have had too man fillers injected in to my face and her lady garden died as she looked at his face.
I think of you truly love and want to be with someone you find a way to make it work. I know Elon is addicted to work though, bet he’s hard to deal with! They seemed like an odd pairing anyway, he definitely seems like the type to lose interest once the chase is over.
I dated a guy who I eventually broke up with after a year because I came to the conclusion that he had the emotional range of a pet rock. I wonder now if he had some high functioning type of Asberger’s Syndrome. He honestly felt no need for much human connection and it didn’t bother him at all. Maybe Musk is like that.
I can see Musk being like that, or liking the idea of a pretty woman on his arm when he needs one, just for show. I read some article by his first wife that was very eye opening, he thinks he’s alpha in the relationship and pretty much expected her to do as he pleased. I was slapping my forehead for Amber because the last thing she needs is another controlling jerk. But, I still find him fascinating and would love to have a conversation with him, just to see what he’s really like and how his mind works, no doubt the dude is a genius.
There was some big Tesla news yesterday. And she’s shooting Aquaman so I’m thinking they are both genuinely busy.
Where’s gross SugarSmacks Face Puff Elon gonna find someone to date him?! Not here in Silicon Valley ! dude is on No Fly List by anyone old enough to love themselves, we have all heard his ex’s story . So I see a very young lady from out of the area if anyone at all #DontForgetTheBlondeHairDyeChica #YouGonNeedThat #RunAmberRun
Best comment right here!!! 😀
‘Stars’? What has he starred in? I get that he is famous, that he is rich, that he has a media presence due to being an innovative businessman but the term ‘star’ has such a decidedly entertainment connotation to it. If Bill Gates suddenly dumped his wife and took up with an actress, would they be collectively be referred to as ‘stars’? I read People’s opening line and laughed.
I really admire Elon, and I think he’s a remarkable individual… but I wouldn’t touch him with yours. I don’t think he’s a bad man, but he’s exhausting. When I read the headline, I thought, “Tallulah Reilly could’ve told you that!” Fuck sake, anyone who’s ever heard of Elon Musk could’ve told her that!
Beautiful women attract narcissist men
Beautiful, thirsty women go after uber-rich sleazeballs for attention and $$$$. Let’s be real. She jumped from one alcoholic mollionaire to another freshly-divorced sack of cash in less time than it took me to type this!
Anyone see the lainey blind/answer from day … about elon’s ~parties
I saw the mention of parties and wondered what that was about. Mind pointing me to the blind that relates?
Yea, caught that too. Blind is about orgies.
Ah, found it. I think Lainey is off-base here though and just assuming it’s him based on him being the popular guess. TBH the blind fits quite a lot of ‘tech gurus’, especially if you count the ‘parties’ thrown at Cannes and the like, but Musk has basically the opposite reputation. Lot’s of tech billionaires ‘vacation’ and ‘party’ a lot, but Musk isn’t exactly jetting off on many foreign retreats, and even on business trips his entourage is his children. His brief trips to Australia to see Heard are anomaly enough, and he even managed to tie business into a couple of those.
Elon Musk is more famous than Amber Heard. Its just a fact. Outside of people who read gossip rags, no one really knows who Amber Heard is. She is just a generic blond that looks like that Palmer girl or Kristen Steward or Johanson.
And this whole excuse is suck a bunch of lies, he visited her 4 times in 4 months. Twice with his kids. She is going to finish Aquaman shoot this month. So just as she is scheduled to get back to LA they break up coz they are busy?? Also she lives with him. In his house. With his kids…… Was living in his house.
They will get back together. He will reconcile with whatever it is he has heard. Give it some time. This break up make up drama is no new to Amber. She did it at least 8-9 times with Depp. Not instagram official but gossip rags official.
Agreed, travel and separation is less of an issue when you have that much money. He can get on one of his private planes whenever he wants. I think after years of pursuing her it just wasn’t as exciting any more, or like you said Amber is drumming up drama to keep it interesting.
He runs 3 or 4 billion $ businesses though. Nevada, LA, SF, and somewhere else. He has money but not time for long-distance stuff, esp not with someone temp located in Australia.
Looks like they’re back together! They were spotted making out at Paddock Bakery on the Gold Coast today.
Photo is old is not today.
I know that pic of them there is a couple of weeks old. They were there again today though. The cafe posted about it on their Instastories, and an employee said they were there this morning for breakfast.
http://www.mtv.com.au/amber-heard/news/amber-heard-elon-musk-spotted-kissing-on-the-gc-just-one-day-after-announcing-break-up
Just got a note in the Australian newspaper that Amber was betraying EM with a local sportsman.