Natalie Portman Speaks Out About Moby’s ”Disturbing” Courting Claims: He Was ”Being Creepy”

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Natalie Portman is setting the file straight on her rumored relationship with the singer Moby.

In his tell-all memoir, the singer claimed to have interaction in a short however romantic fling with the younger star after assembly her backstage at one in every of his exhibits. “I used to be a bald binge drinker and Natalie Portman was an exquisite film star. However right here she was in my dressing room, flirting with me,” he described in an excerpt of the e-book It Felt Aside. 

He goes on to say that their romance ended when Portman revealed that she met one other man, which he described as a second of candy reduction. Moby recalled, “I assumed that I used to be going to have to inform her that my panic was too egregious for me to be in an actual relationship, however one night time on the telephone she knowledgeable me that she’d met anyone else. I used to be relieved that I might by no means have to inform her how broken I used to be.” 

Nevertheless, the V For Vendetta star is now saying that Moby’s story is affected by “factual errors and innovations.” 

Not solely is the actress accusing the singer of mendacity about their interactions, she additionally alleges that he lied about their ages, which portrays Moby in a harsher gentle. Portman clarifies to Harpers Bazaar UK, “He mentioned I used to be 20; I positively wasn’t. I used to be a teen. I had simply turned 18.”

Furthermore, she believes that he deliberately lied concerning the nature of their interactions as a technique to “promote his e-book” and that she would’ve most popular that he or his publishers fact-checked the story. “That he used this story to promote his e-book was very disturbing to me,” she provides. 

One factor that Moby did not seem to lie about was how they met. She did meet him after one in every of his exhibits they usually did hangout quite a few instances, however Portman asserts that there was no romantic relationship within the slightest. She explains, “Once we met after the present, he mentioned, ‘let’s be buddies.’ He was on tour and I used to be working, capturing a movie, so we solely frolicked a handful of instances earlier than I spotted that this was an older man who was enthusiastic about me in a approach that felt inappropriate.” 

Portman says that even on the time she knew he was a “a lot older man being creepy with me,” which is kind of the opposite to Moby’s declare that she primarily initiated a relationship. 

E! Information has reached out to representatives for Moby for remark.

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