Moby Apologises To Natalie Portman For “Inconsiderate” Dating Comments

Moby, Natalie Portman

Weird unit Moby has apologised to Natalie Portman over comments he made in his recent memoir about their supposed relationship nearly two decades ago.

In his book Then It Fell Apart, the 53-year-old musician wrote about an incident when he claimed that the young actress hit on him after a show, saying:

“I was a bald binge drinker and Natalie Portman was a beautiful movie star. But here she was in my dressing room, flirting with me.”

Moby claimed that the pair dated for a short time, but Portman, now 37, hit back, denying this and saying that he was “a much older man being creepy with me when I had just graduated high school.”

The musician initially responded by saying that they definitely did go out for a period, posting photos of them together and accusing her of misrepresenting the truth about their “brief involvement.”

Overnight, however, he appeared to back away from his earlier, fairly aggressive stance, and posted a lengthy statement on his Instagram entitled “from Moby, an apology.” He wrote:

As some time has passed I’ve realized that many of the criticisms leveled at me regarding my inclusion of Natalie in Then It Fell Apart are very valid. I also fully recognize that it was truly inconsiderate of me to not let her know about her inclusion in the book beforehand, and equally inconsiderate for me to not fully respect her reaction.

I have a lot of admiration for Natalie, for her intelligence, creativity, and animal rights activism, and I hate that I might have caused her and her family distress. I tried to treat everyone I included in Then It Fell Apart with dignity and respect, but nonetheless it was truly inconsiderate for me to not let them know before the book was released.

So for that I apologize, to Natalie, as well as the other people I wrote about in Then It Fell Apart without telling them beforehand. Also I accept that given the dynamic of our almost 14 year age difference I absolutely should’ve acted more responsibly and respectfully when Natalie and I first met almost 20 years ago.

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