Moby is still unsure about his previous relationship with Natalie Portman. In an interview with The Times that was released on Friday, February 20, the artist discussed his purported relationship with Portman. In his 2019 biography, Then It Fell Apart, he stated that he dated the actress in 1999, when she was eighteen, and he was thirty-three.
In 2019, Portman refuted his assertion, stating, “I was surprised to hear that he characterized the very short time that I knew him as dating because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me.”
He answered with, “I completely respect Natalie’s possible regret in dating me (to be fair, I would probably regret dating me, too), but it doesn’t alter the actual facts of our brief romantic history.”
In an interview with The Times, (currently) Moby said, “It’s hard for me to make sense of it.”
He said, “Insofar as I’m capable of perspective on that, I don’t disagree with what you’re saying,” when it was suggested that the incident appeared to be a “sour episode between two people who seem decent.”
According to Portman’s earlier interview, she first got to know Moby during one of his concerts as a fan. “When we met after the show, he said, ‘Let’s be friends.’ 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,” she added.
Moby apologized to Portman, stating 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.”
