Moby 'confused' as he hits back at Natalie Portman's claims they didn't date

The singer posted a picture of the pair on Instagram and claimed they had been good friends 
'Confused': Moby has accused Natalie Portman of 'actively misrepresenting the truth'
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Emma Powell22 May 2019
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Moby revealed he has been left “confused” by Natalie Portman’s claims they did not date, accusing her of ‘actively misrepresenting the truth’.

Portman, 53, branded the singer, real name Richard Melville Hall, “creepy” after he claimed in his autobiography When It Fell Apart that they had dated briefly.

He claimed a 20-year-old Portman was “flirting” with him in his dressing room and that he “tried to be Natalie’s boyfriend” but things “hadn’t worked out”.

Portman denied any romantic involvement, deeming Moby’s account “very disturbing” and insisting she was 18 years old at the time.

Moby hit back at her denial on Instagram, claiming they remained good friends after “briefly dating” in 1999.

Alongside a picture of the pair smiling together he wrote: “I recently read a gossip piece wherein Natalie Portman said that we’d never dated. This confused me, as we did, in fact, date. And after briefly dating in 1999 we remained friends for years.

“I like Natalie, and I respect her intelligence and activism. But, to be honest, I can’t figure out why she would actively misrepresent the truth about our (albeit brief) involvement. The story as laid out in my book Then It Fell Apart is accurate, with lots of corroborating photo evidence, etc.”

Moby finished by joking he would “completely respect” Portman if she regretted their alleged romance.

“Ps I completely respect Natalie’s possible regret in dating me (to be fair, I would probably regret dating me, too),” he said,” but it doesn’t alter the actual facts of our brief romantic history.”

Dismissal: Natalie Portman shut down Moby's claims in his autobiography
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His post came hours after Portman told Harper’s Bazaar she was “surprised to hear that he characterised the very short time that [she] knew him as dating” because her “recollection is a much older man being creepy with [her] when [she] had just graduated high school”.

“I was a fan and went to one of his shows when I had just graduated,” she continued. “We only hung out a handful of times before I realised that this was an older man who was interested in me in a way that felt inappropriate.”

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