Maye
and Errol Musk were at an Oktoberfest celebration with three other
couples, drinking beer and having fun, when a guy at another table
whistled at Maye and called her sexy. Errol was

, but not at the guy. The way Maye remembers it, he

and was about to hit her, and a friend had to restrain him. She fled to
her mother’s house. “Over time, he had gotten crazier,” Maye later
said. “He would hit me when the kids were around. I remember that Elon,
who was five, would hit him on the backs of his knees to try to stop
him.”

梅伊和埃羅爾-馬斯克與其他三對夫婦一起參加啤酒節慶祝活動，喝著啤酒，玩得不亦樂乎，這時另一桌的一個男人對梅伊吹口哨，說她性感。埃洛爾很生氣，但不是對那個人。在梅伊的記憶中，他衝過去就要打她，一個朋友不得不制止了他。她逃回了孃家。"隨著時間的推移，他變得越來越瘋狂，"梅伊後來說。"孩子們在旁邊時，他就會打我。我記得五歲的伊隆會打他的膝蓋，試圖阻止他。"

Errol calls the

“absolute rubbish.” He claims he adored Maye, and over the years he tried to win her back. “I’ve never

a woman in my life, and certainly none of my wives,” he says. “That’s
one of women’s weapons is to cry that the man abused her, to cry and to
lie. And a man’s weapons are to buy and to sign.”

埃洛爾稱這些指控 "絕對是垃圾"他聲稱自己很喜歡梅伊 多年來他一直試圖贏回她的芳心"我這輩子從沒對女人動過手，當然也沒對我的妻子動過手，"他說。"女人的武器之一就是哭著說男人虐待她，哭著撒謊。而男人的武器就是買和籤。

On the morning after the Oktoberfest

,
Errol came over to Maye’s mother’s house, apologized, and asked Maye to
come back. “Don’t you dare touch her again,” Winnifred Haldeman said.
“If you do, she’s coming to live with me.” Maye said that he never hit
her after that, but his

abuse continued. He would tell her that she was “boring, stupid, and
ugly.” The marriage never recovered. Errol later admitted it was his
fault. “I had a very pretty wife, but there were always prettier,
younger girls,” he said. “I really loved Maye, but I

.” They divorced when Elon was eight.

啤酒節爭吵後的第二天早上，埃洛爾來到梅伊的母親家，向她道歉，並請梅伊回來。"你敢再碰她一下，"溫妮弗雷德-哈爾德曼說。"如果你敢
她就跟我一起住"梅伊說，從那以後他再也沒有打過她，但他的辱罵仍在繼續。他會說她
"無聊、愚蠢、醜陋"。這段婚姻從此一蹶不振埃洛爾後來承認這是他的錯"我有一個非常漂亮的妻子，但總是有更漂亮、更年輕的女孩，"他說。"我真的很愛梅耶，但我搞砸了"埃隆八歲時，他們離婚了。

Maye
and the children moved to a house on the coast near Durban, about 380
miles south of the Pretoria-Johannesburg area, where she

jobs as a model and

.
There was little money. She bought her kids secondhand books and
uniforms. On some weekends and holidays the boys (but usually not Tosca)
would take the train to see their father in Pretoria. “He would send
them back without any clothes or bags, so I had to buy them new clothes
every time,” she says. “He said that I would eventually return to him,
because I would be so

and wouldn’t be able to feed them.”

梅伊和孩子們搬到比勒陀利亞-約翰內斯堡以南約
380
英里的德班附近海邊的一所房子裡，她在那裡兼做模特和營養師。在那裡，她身兼模特和營養師的工作。她給孩子們買二手書和校服。在一些週末和節假日，孩子們（但通常不是托斯卡）會坐火車去比勒陀利亞看父親。"她說："他會把他們送回來，不給他們帶任何衣服或書包，所以我不得不每次都給他們買新衣服。"他說，我最終還是會回到他身邊，因為我會變得非常貧窮，無法養活他們。

Often
she would have to travel on a modeling job or to give a nutrition
lecture, leaving the kids at home. “I never felt guilty about working
full-time, because I didn’t have a choice,” she says. “My children had
to be responsible for themselves.” The freedom taught them to be
self-reliant. When they faced a problem, she had a

: “You’ll figure it out.” As Kimbal recalls, “Mom wasn’t soft and

, and she was always working, but that was a gift for us.”

她經常要出差去做模特，或者去做營養講座，把孩子留在家裡。"她說："我從不為全職工作感到內疚，因為我別無選擇。"我的孩子們必須對自己負責。自由教會了他們自立。當他們遇到困難時，她有一個固定的回答："你們會解決的"。金巴爾回憶說，"媽媽並不溫柔可愛，她總是在工作，但這對我們來說是一種恩賜"。

Elon
developed into a night person, staying up until dawn reading books.
When he saw his mother’s light go on at 6 a.m., he would crawl into bed
and fall asleep. That meant she had trouble getting him up in time for
school, and on nights when she was away, he would sometimes not get to
class until 10 a.m. After getting calls from the school, Errol launched a

battle and had

issued for Elon’s teachers, Maye’s modeling agent, and their neighbors.
Right before going to trial, Errol dropped the case. Every few years,
he would

another court action and then drop it. When Tosca recounts these tales, she begins to cry. “I remember Mom just sitting there,

on the couch. I didn’t know what to do. All I could do was to hold her.”

埃隆養成了夜貓子的習慣，看書到天亮。當他看到母親的燈在早上
6
點亮起時，他就會爬上床睡著了。在接到學校的電話後，埃羅爾發起了監護權爭奪戰，並向伊隆的老師、梅伊的模特經紀人和他們的鄰居發出了傳票。就在開庭前，埃洛爾放棄了此案。每隔幾年，他都會向法院提起訴訟，然後又放棄。當托斯卡講述這些故事時，她開始哭泣。"我記得媽媽就坐在那裡，在沙發上抽泣。我不知道該怎麼辦。我只能抱著她"。

Maye and Errol were each drawn to dramatic intensity rather than domestic

, a trait they would pass on. After her divorce, Maye began dating another

man. The children hated him and would occasionally put tiny

in his cigarettes that would explode when he lit up. Soon after the man
proposed marriage, he got another woman pregnant. “She had been a
friend of mine,” Maye says. “We had modeled together.”

梅伊和埃羅爾各自被戲劇性的緊張氣氛所吸引，而不是家庭幸福，這也是他們會傳承下去的特質。離婚後，梅伊開始和另一個虐待她的男人約會。孩子們恨他，偶爾會在他的香菸裡放一些小鞭炮，當他點燃時就會爆炸。在這個男人提出結婚後不久，他又讓另一個女人懷孕了。"她曾是我的一個朋友，"梅伊說。"我們一起做過模特。"

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