New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- Ashley St. Clair feels "jilted and terrified" after Elon Musk refused to come to her aid when reporters began investigating their infant son, according to her friend Emma-Jo Morris. St. Clair's recent decision to publicly name Musk as the father of her child wasn't an attention-seeking move, Morris told The New York Post.

"Ashley got wind that a tabloid was kicking the tires on her, and she reached out to Elon immediately. He basically cut bait, and so the message was understood that she was on her own," said Morris, a political consultant and former deputy politics editor at The Post.

Morris revealed that Ashley St. Clair initially believed she and Elon Musk would have a co-parenting arrangement similar to those h...