Moby publicly apologized to Natalie Portman on Saturday, days after the actress disputed Moby's recollection of their alleged relationship in his new book "Then It Fell Apart." The 53-year-old musician wrote in his biography that he met Portman at one of his concerts when he was 33 and she was 20. He then wrote that the Oscar winner had flirted with him in his dressing room at a concert and that he visited her at Harvard, where their romance blossomed.
Portman, now 37, denied his claim in an interview with Harper's Bazaar published Thursday, saying she had just turned 18 when the two met.
"I was surprised to hear him refer to the very short time I knew him as 'dating' because I remember a much older man being scary to me when I was just out of high school" , she said. “He used this story to sell his book, which really bothered me,” she continued. “I was a fan of his music and attended one of his gigs when I was playing mineSchool graduationhad made. We only hung out a few times before I realized that this was an older man who was interested in me in a way that felt inappropriate.”
Early last week, Moby reaffirmed his claim and said he had photographic evidence. "It hurts to be lied to, especially since I always respected her and I thought we were friends," he wrote on Instagram after hearing Portman's rejection. Now, after much anger, Moby has publicly apologized to Portman online.
“Over time, I have come to realize that many of the criticisms I have made regarding my inclusion of Natalie in Then It Fell Apart are very valid,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “I also fully recognize that it was truly inconsiderate of me not to inform her of her inclusion in the book beforehand, and equally inconsiderate of me not fully respecting her reaction.”
Moby said he tried to treat everyone mentioned in the book “with dignity and respect.” “So I apologize to Natalie and the other people I wrote about in Then It Fell Apart without telling them first,” Moby said.
