In a deeply emotional and previously unreleased interview, Maye Musk, the accomplished model and mother of tech titan Elon Musk, revealed a chilling, prophetic warning she received decades ago: “If you give birth to Elon, the world will change forever.” Her voice trembled as she recalled the moment—one buried in time, spoken softly by a mysterious figure she never fully identified. “I didn’t understand it then,” she whispered. “Now I live with the meaning of it every day.”

The revelation came during a quiet sit-down filmed privately for an upcoming documentary exploring the hidden lives of history’s most influential mothers. Maye, now 77, described how during her pregnancy with Elon in Pretoria, South Africa, she was approached by an elderly nurse during a routine hospital visit. The woman, described only as “wise-eyed and soft-spoken,” laid a hand gently on Maye’s stomach and said, “This child will cause the world to look at the stars—and then break itself trying to reach them.”

At the time, Maye dismissed the words as poetic nonsense, the kind of thing sentimental strangers say to expecting mothers. But decades later—after rockets, robots, Mars missions, Twitter chaos, and the transformation of global industries—she says she no longer sees it as coincidence. “I remember it now, more clearly than I remember what I ate yesterday,” she said, fighting back tears. “She didn’t say his name… but it was as if she already knew.”

What has sparked Maye’s decision to speak out now, after remaining largely silent for years? Sources close to the Musk family say Maye has been increasingly reflective since Elon’s rise to cultural dominance—especially as controversy, admiration, and scrutiny have all intensified. “She’s watching her son be praised as a genius and vilified as a villain—sometimes on the same day,” one confidante noted. “She carries all of it, silently.”

Maye admits that Elon’s mind always scared her a little. “He wasn’t like the other children,” she said. “He would look at the stars and cry—not because they were far, but because he knew they could be reached and wasn’t old enough to try.” She recalled a childhood moment when Elon told her, at just 7 years old, “Mom, I’m going to move people off this planet. Earth can’t be our only hope.”

The original warning haunted her more after that moment. She began to notice that Elon didn’t just dream—he predicted. He would describe technologies years before they existed, sketching ideas on napkins, building crude prototypes in his room, and asking impossible questions like, “Why can’t cars breathe clean air?”

For years, Maye told no one about the nurse’s strange comment—afraid people would think she was inventing it or worse, clinging to superstition. “But now,” she says, “the world is no longer ordinary. And the world’s no longer gentle with him, either.” She reveals that she’s grown more afraid—not of what Elon might do, but of the weight he carries alone.

“He doesn’t sleep. He doesn’t rest. The world pulls at him like he owes it something,” she said. “And I wonder if maybe that woman was warning me—not about what he would do to the world, but what the world would do to him.”

In the interview, Maye also touched on the personal cost of genius. “You lose people. You get mocked. You feel like no matter what you build, it’s never enough.” She confessed that she worries her son is becoming more machine than man—driven by code, burdened by timelines, detached from rest or peace.

The documentary team reportedly asked if she believed Elon was “chosen” or “guided” in any spiritual sense. Maye paused, visibly torn. “I don’t know if I believe in prophecy,” she said. “But I believe in patterns—and I’ve seen too many lines connect to think this was all random.”

As for the mysterious nurse, Maye has never seen her again. Hospital records showed no one matching her description on staff that day. “Maybe she was a dream,” Maye mused quietly. “Or maybe the universe needed to tell me something—and she was the only one listening.”

Fans and critics alike have responded intensely to the early release of Maye’s interview clip. Some praise her candor and maternal strength, while others question the mythologizing of a figure as polarizing as Elon Musk. But for Maye, the intention isn’t mythology—it’s memory. “He is not a god,” she said. “He’s my son. And he’s still the little boy who cried for the stars.”

The full documentary is expected to air later this year, and producers hint that Maye’s testimony is only the beginning. Other mothers of tech founders, inventors, and visionaries will also speak—sharing the burdens and beauty of raising those who shape the world. But few moments will likely compare to the trembling pause when Maye Musk, in a whisper, repeated the line she can never forget: “If you give birth to Elon, the world will change forever.”