Natalie Portman has a few choice words about singer-songwriter, Moby, after he claimed in his recent memoir to have dated her back in the '90s — and the whole situation is, well, frankly, disconcerting.
Natalie Portman has a few choice words about singer-songwriter, Moby, after he claimed in his recent memoir to have dated her back in the '90s — and the whole situation is, well, frankly, disconcerting.
In the book, he claims that he had a romantic relationship with Natalie Portman in 1999 while he was 33 and she was 20.
You'd think that Moby would have done some quick fact-checking before calling somebody out by name in his official memoir — but no.
In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, Natalie set the record straight.
"Because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school."
"I was a fan and went to one of his shows when I had just graduated," she explained.
"He was on tour and I was working, shooting a film, so we only hung out a handful of times before I realized that this was an older man who was interested in me in a way that felt inappropriate."
At The Women's March last year, she said, "A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday — euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with and movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews."
He posted a throwback photo of the pair on Instagram — as though that would be enough evidence to contradict Natalie's statement.
He insinuates that Natalie is denying ever dating him because she is possibly embarrassed or regretful.
"In my memoir, Then It Fell Apart, I respectfully and honestly describe the brief, innocent, and consensual romantic involvement I had with Natalie Portman in 1999," he wrote in a since-deleted post on Instagram.
"And there’s ample photographic evidence that we briefly dated and then were friends (some pictures included in this post)."
"I want to take the high road, but I honestly don’t know what to do. It’s one thing to be lied about, and entirely another when someone’s lies result in physical threats from complete strangers."
Firstly, just because you have photos standing next to somebody does not mean that you were romantically involved with them. That is not proof.
Especially not this photo.
Not to mention, you can clearly see another person's hand in this photo. Evidently, this was a group shot — making this photo even less couply.
He posted this picture with the caption, "You know what’s nice? That nature doesn’t care. Also, I can choose frustration and bitterness, or I can remember that as an activist I’m here to help, not to be helped."
"So, attack me, slander me, lie about me, in the meantime I’ll be trying to save animals and help stop humans from destroying the only home we have. Bye."
Surely, somebody should have fact-checked this real quick before the memoir was published.
Takes nearly no effort. Anyone with access to Google and a calculator can figure this out.
He says that, "clearly all of this has been my own fault," and that he "behaved inconsiderately and disrespectfully, both in 2019 and 1999."
Some may admire his persistence — trying to prove that his relationship with Natalie wasn't fictional.
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