When news broke out that the camera and sensor tech company Mobileye broke ties with Tesla Motors, the reason given was supposedly about the latter’s roughshod approach to customer safety. This development came after the recent crashes involving the car company’s autopilot system. However, Tesla’s own version of events paints a different picture, more akin to a story involving a spurned lover rather than a selfless humanitarian.

Amnon Shashua, the chairman at Mobileye Chairman spoke with Reuters last Wednesday and disparaged what he viewed was Tesla’s carelessness with regards to driving safety. In response, a spokesperson for Tesla told the Los Angeles Times that the break up was actually caused by Mobileye’s jealousy.

The parts provider supposedly found out that the car maker was creating its own vision program to apply to future self-driving cars. Upon learning of the project, Mobileye reportedly tried to force Tesla to shut it down while also demanding to be paid more money.

According to the spokesperson, Tesla refused the unreasonable demands, which resulted in Mobileye ceasing to provide the car maker with hardware support out of spite. The parts company also told Tesla that their relationship would end as soon as their contract ended.

As Fortune points out, public displays of throwing blame is a rarity among giant corporations where image often equates to value. Tesla has stepped up its efforts to protect drivers who own vehicles with the Autopilot feature since the incidents that resulted in injuries and death.

The feature was recently updated to prevent drivers from becoming lax while Autopilot was engaged. If the drivers fail to respond to prompts by the system to take over control of the car, the feature would be disabled temporarily. The measure is meant to stop drivers from completely disengaging from driving, which would effectively put their lives in danger.