Natalie Portman Says She Never Dated ‘Creepy’ Music Producer Moby
After music producer Moby claimed in his new memoir Then It Fell Apart that he dated actress Natalie Portman, Natalie herself was not pleased.
In fact, Natalie says she saw him not as a romantic partner, but as a “creepy” older man who tried to overstep his boundaries.
“I was surprised to hear that he characterized the very short time that I knew him as dating because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school,” she told Harper’s Bazaar UK.
The Oscar-winning actress also said she was 18 when they met, despite Moby’s claims that she was 20. They struck up a friendship, but it fizzled out when she realized he had other intentions.
“I was a fan and went to one of his shows when I had just graduated,” she told the outlet. “When we met after the show, he said, ‘Let’s be friends.’ 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.”
When Moby found out that Natalie denied their relationship, he responded on Instagram:
“I recently read a gossip piece wherein Natalie Portman said that we’d never dated,” he wrote. “This confused me, as we did, in fact, date. And after briefly dating in 1999 we remained friends for years. I like Natalie, and I respect her intelligence and activism. But, to be honest, I can’t figure out why she would actively misrepresent the truth about our(albeit brief)involvement. The story as laid out in my book Then It Fell Apart is accurate, with lots of corroborating photo evidence, etc.”