‘He’s a pure evil’; Tesla whistleblower and cancer patient tears into Elon Musk after winning latest legal battle

Cristina Balan, a Tesla whistleblower and a cancer patient, blasted billionaire Elon Musk as “pure evil.” After voicing safety concerns about Tesla vehicles, the former engineer and Tesla employee was fired by the Tesla CEO.

She claimed to have been forced to leave her position in 2014 after warning Musk about a design problem involving curled floor mats beneath the pedals, which she believed could affect braking. She had previously worked on the Tesla Model S.

A California judge reopened her previously dismissed defamation complaint against Tesla on Thursday, April 17.

“He is pure evil,” Balan said on Times Radio. “I started this lawsuit to prove my innocence and to prove how vindictive this monster is.”

Musk’s reaction to Balan’s safety warnings

Balan claimed that she sent Musk a direct email identifying significant problems, such as “hundreds of defects per car”. But rather than taking any action, she said that Tesla’s legal and HR departments forced her to leave.

“They forced me to resign. They told me that if I’m not resigning on the spot, they will deport my entire team, because the entire Tesla team, the entire interior team, was backing me up,” she stated.

“Tesla’s plan and the legal department’s plan was to convince the entire team and myself to close the investigation, the internal investigation that we opened in the company to fix a serious safety issue,” Balan added.

According to the x-Tesla engineer, “90 per cent” of workers who expressed concerns to Musk were “fired” shortly after.