The Hollywood actress said the dance musician had in fact been a
Moby has publicly apologised to Natalie Portman days after she claimed he had been « creepy » with her when she was younger.
The dance musician, 53, alleged he dated the Hollywood actress when she was 20 in his memoir Then It Fell Apart.
Portman remembered their relationship differently, telling Harper’s Bazaar UK that « there are many factual errors and inventions » in his writing.
The 37-year-old actress told the magazine: « I was surprised to hear that he characterised 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. He said I was 20; I definitely wasn’t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18. »
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.
