Moby, 55, admits there is no good way to talk about Natalie Portman’s controversy … after calling him out for ‘whimsical behavior’ when she was 18
- Moby (55) launches a new album and documentary about his life called Moby Doc
- The vegan musician – born Richard Melville Hall – suffered another setback in 2019 when actress Natalie Portman hit back at allegations that the couple went out when she was 20
- Referring to the time in the early 2000s, Moby said on Monday that he was a ‘full-fledged alcohol and drug addict’.
- Commenting on his claims in 2019, Portman retorted: ‘He said I was 20. I was definitely not. I was a teenager. I just turned 18. ‘
Moby addressed his controversial relationship with Natalie Portman in a new interview to promote his new album, and a documentary he titled Moby Doc.
The 55-year-old musician – born Richard Melville Hall – suffered a setback in 2019 when actress Portman fell back on his allegations from his second reminder that the couple went out at the age of 20, and rather him as an older man which was creepy, blew. ‘
Now, in an interview with The Guardian, Moby admits ‘there are times I was portrayed badly and it was accurate’ and spoke of the regret he feels for looking back on his past.
Doing the rounds: Moby had earlier referred to himself as an ‘out-of-control, totally legitimate alcohol and drug addict’ in an attempt to promote his new album and a documentary
“I was this out of control, completely entitled, alcoholic and drug addict who was involved myself, and I liked to read almost pathologically of myself, which I know is not something we should admit,” Moby Tim Timze told the maintenance function. .
He is said to be talking about the early 2000s, amid the rise of gossip sites like the Gawker that will soon be re-launched, when he originally claimed to have dated actress Natalie Portman (39).
Portman lashed out at the allegations, saying the pair did not go out and that Moby – a vegan musician whose records include the 1999 album Play, which produced eight hit singles – was an ‘inappropriate’ older man.
Call: Natalie Portman slammed back on his allegations from his second memoir that the couple dated when she was twenty, and instead he was simply ‘just an older man who was creepy’.
The Oscar-winning actress (37) told Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I was surprised to hear that he spent the very short time I knew him, because my memory is of a very older man who was horrified with me. when I had just finished high school. .
“He said I was 20. I certainly was not. I was a teenager. I just turned 18. ‘
The mother-of-two also criticized Moby’s publisher for not checking the facts of the story, saying it was a ‘deliberate’ attempt to sell books.
Moby said of the scandal with The Guardian: ‘You know, you’re asking me to open such a can of worms … There’s no good way to answer: one option is terrible, the other is really terrible . ‘
‘I was a complete alcohol and drug addict’: Moby (55) admits he regrets the past while promoting a new album (with Kid Rock in 2000)
He added: “If we play chess now, this is the part where I’m going to pick up my phone and pretend I’m getting an emergency call.
Asked if he regrets any of his behavior around Portman, he said: ‘Part of me wish I could spend the next two hours deconstructing the whole thing … but there are levels of complexity and nuances which I really can not go into. ‘
He concluded: ‘There is a part of me afterwards who wishes I had not written the book. But then the sales figures indicate that not as many people actually read it. ‘
Speaking about how he protected himself from the negative attention of the press at the time, Moby said: ‘When you talk to my managers or people I work with, I have only one iron-clad rule, namely: do not send me press links or reviews because I have not read anything about it.
‘When the folly took place a few years ago, I hid in my ignorance. This, of course, was hard to ignore, especially when I left the pony newspapers outside my door. But I think I realized that if I hated anyone in the world, I could wake up in my comfortable bed every morning and go for a walk. ‘
‘Out of control’: Referring to the time in the early 2000s, Moby said on Monday that he was a ‘full-fledged alcohol and drug addict’.