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Billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday pushed back on claims from an upcoming documentary calling him “the most miserable man”, laying out exactly how happy he actually feels.
‘I’m Happy About Half the Time’
Musk in a post on X said, “I’m happy about half the time, somewhere in the middle about 40% and sad about 10% of the time.”
The mother of Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. CEO, Maye Musk, shared a Hollywood Reporter report from Wednesday, previewing director Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary, which quoted an unnamed source close to Musk saying, “He’s the most miserable man I’ve ever met.”
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Maye Musk called the claim “weird,” adding that “I haven’t seen him miserable, but that’s just me. His mom.”
I’m happy about half the time, somewhere in the middle about 40% and sad about 10% of the time
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 3, 2026
Inside the Documentary
The nearly four-hour documentary is built around the thesis that Musk is “aggregating power” in dangerous ways, primarily through his control of vast amounts of data.
Gibney has described Musk as “a confidence man whose power comes only from the stock market” and, in the film’s closing stretch, said that the “suffering will pile up” as Musk “accretes more power” and grows “no longer interested in checking his worst impulses.”
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Musk is the world’s richest person with a net worth of $926.2 billion, according to Forbes. In June, he briefly touched the trillionaire status after SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO.
The film, which does not include an interview with Musk, premieres at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 8, with a theatrical release in October and an HBO debut set for the first half of 2027.
Gibney is an Oscar-winning documentarian known for taking on powerful institutions, including Enron, Scientology, and the U.S. military.
The Musks’ Public Family Life
Maye Musk regularly shares candid, often humanizing moments about her son online, from recounting his spartan living conditions at his Texas home to reviving a 2018 clip of him singing at a festival in Texas.
In February, when she posted about raising her children to “love everyone,” Musk said, “I agree with the teachings of Jesus.”
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