{"id":24090,"date":"2019-05-21T19:09:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T01:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1043400"},"modified":"2019-05-21T19:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T01:09:31","slug":"natalie-portman-speaks-out-about-mobys-disturbing-dating-claims-he-was-being-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/natalie-portman-speaks-out-about-mobys-disturbing-dating-claims-he-was-being-creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Portman Speaks Out About Moby&#8217;s &#8221;Disturbing&#8221; Dating Claims: He Was &#8221;Being Creepy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019421\/rs_1024x759-190521180429-1024-split-natalie-moby-serious-me-52119.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Moby, Natalie Portman\" alt=\"Moby, Natalie Portman\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Rich Polk\/Getty Images for Environmental Media Association; David Livingston\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.072016460905\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.502057613169\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/natalie_portman\">Natalie Portman<\/a><\/strong> is setting the record straight on her rumored relationship with the singer&nbsp;<strong>Moby<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In his tell-all memoir, the singer claimed to engage in a brief but romantic fling with&nbsp;the young star after meeting her backstage at one of his shows. &#8220;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,&#8221; he described in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/magazine\/the-sunday-times-magazine\/moby-then-it-fell-apart-tales-of-sex-drugs-and-celebrity-hell-from-his-new-memoir-pp6spnpw0?wgu=270525_54264_1558468065958_f229c12a8c&amp;wgexpiry=1566244065&amp;utm_source=planit&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_content=22278&amp;wgu=270525_54264_15584864264694_1ca9906645&amp;wgexpiry=1566262426&amp;utm_source=planit&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_content=22278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excerpt<\/a> of the book&nbsp;<em>It Felt Apart<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say that their romance ended when Portman revealed that she met another man, which he described as a moment of sweet relief. Moby recalled, &#8220;I thought that I was going to have to tell her that my panic was too egregious for me to be in a real relationship, but one night on the phone she informed me that she&#8217;d met somebody else. I was relieved that I&#8217;d never have to tell her how damaged I was.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the&nbsp;<em>V For Vendetta&nbsp;<\/em>star is now saying that Moby&#8217;s story is littered with &#8220;factual errors and inventions.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.528947368421\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.794736842105\">\n<p>Not only is the actress accusing the singer of lying about their interactions, she also alleges that he lied about their ages, which portrays Moby in a harsher light. Portman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/uk\/culture\/a27528546\/natalie-portman-interview-factory-farming-moby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clarifies<\/a> to&nbsp;<em>Harpers Bazaar UK<\/em>, &#8220;He said I was 20; I definitely wasn&#8217;t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, she believes that he intentionally&nbsp;lied about the nature of their interactions as a way to &#8220;sell his book&#8221; and that she would&#8217;ve preferred that he or his publishers fact-checked the story. &#8220;That he used this story to sell his book was very disturbing to me,&#8221; she adds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17\">\n<p>One thing that Moby didn&#8217;t appear to lie about was how they met. She did meet him after one of his shows and they did hangout&nbsp;numerous times, but Portman asserts that there was no romantic relationship in the slightest. She explains, &#8220;When we met after the show, he said, \u2018let&#8217;s be friends.&#8217; 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.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Portman&nbsp;says that&nbsp;even at the time she knew he was a&nbsp;&#8220;much older man being creepy with me,&#8221; which is quite the contrary to Moby&#8217;s claim that she essentially initiated a relationship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>E! News has reached out to representatives for Moby for comment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1043400\/natalie-portman-speaks-out-about-moby-s-disturbing-dating-claims-he-was-being-creepy?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Polk\/Getty Images for Environmental Media Association; David Livingston\/Getty Images Natalie Portman is setting the record straight on her rumored relationship with the singer&nbsp;Moby. In his tell-all memoir, the singer claimed to engage in a brief but romantic fling with&nbsp;the young star after meeting her backstage at one of his shows. &#8220;I was a bald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 19:26:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}