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Elon Musk has set the record straight on his split from Amber Heard, saying he and the actress still love each other, remain close but called it quits because the long-distance thing wasn’t working out.

The Tesla CEO weighed in on an Instagram photo Heard posted Monday, assuring the public there is no bad blood between them and even hinting at a possible reunion.

“Although Amber and I did break up, we are still friends, remain close and love one another,” the 46-year-old Musk said in comment on Heard’s photo, in which she sticks a fork into the red wig she wears for her role as Mera in the upcoming “Aquaman.” She is jokingly referring to herself as Ariel from “The Little Mermaid.”

Musk wrote: “Long distance relationships, when both partners have intense work obligations are always difficult, but who knows what the future holds.”

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News came over the weekend that Musk and Heard, 31, had ended their year-long romance. Initial reports suggested that Musk broke things off because he had “heard certain things about her behavior” that didn’t sit well with him.

But another source told Us Weekly that the breakup was mutual and a matter of “timing.”

Heard is in Australia until October filming “Aquaman,” while Musk, based in Los Angeles, has been busy with the debut of the Tesla Model 3, his company’s affordably priced, mass-market car, as well as talking up plans to build a massive hyperloop tunnel connecting New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

In response to Heard’s humorous post, a bemused Musk first commented, “Very cute.” He then posted a subsequent comment, elaborating on their breakup.

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Musk and Heard went public with their romance in April, following months of tabloid speculation that Heard was rebounding from her nasty high-profile split from actor Johnny Depp with the tech tycoon.

The two were first linked last summer after they were spotted out and about in London and Miami. Musk, who is worth an estimated $14 billion, has previously been married twice and has five sons with his first wife. He had just gotten out of a second marriage to British actress Talulah Riley.