Moby acknowledges past regrets after Natalie Portman called him for his “creepy behavior”

Moby addressed his controversial relationship with Natalie Portman in a new interview to promote his new album and in a documentary he titled Moby Doc.

The 55-year-old musician – born Richard Melville Hall – faced a backlash in 2019 when actress Portman rejected his claims in the second memoir whose couple had a date at the age of 20, throwing him in change as just “a creepy older man. ‘

Now, in an interview with The Guardian, Moby admits “there are times when I was badly portrayed and it was fair” and talked about some of the regret he feels about looking back on his past.

Doing the rounds: Moby referred to himself as a “completely drunk and drug addict” in an effort to promote his new album and documentary

“I was out of control, fully justified, addicted to drugs and self-involved drinks, and I enjoyed reading about myself, almost pathologically, which I know is not something we should admit,” Moby tells Tim Jonze. in the movie.

He is said to be talking about the early 2000s, amid the rise of gossip websites such as Gawker, which will be relaunched soon, initially claiming to have met 39-year-old actress Natalie Portman.

Portman denied the allegations, saying the couple did not meet and that Moby – a vegan musician whose albums include the 1999 album Play, which spawned eight singles – was a more inappropriate man.

Shouted: Natalie Portman dismissed her claims in the second memoir whose couple had a date at the age of 20, instead dismissing him as just “an older man who is creepy.”

The 37-year-old Oscar-winning actress told Harper’s Bazaar: “I was surprised to hear that it was a very short time that I knew as a date, because my memory is that a man is much more In his old age, he’s terrifying of me when I just graduated from high school. .

“He said I was 20 years old. I certainly wasn’t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18.

The mother of two also criticized publisher Moby for failing to verify the facts of the story, saying she considered it a “deliberate” attempt to sell books.

Speaking about the scandal to The Guardian, Moby said: “You know, you’re asking me to open such a box of worms … There’s no good way to answer: one option is terrible, the other is really terrible.”

“I was completely addicted to drinks and drugs”: 55-year-old Moby admits past regrets while promoting a new album (pictured in Kid Rock in 2000)

He added: “So, if I were playing chess right now, this is the part where I would pick up the phone and pretend to have an emergency call.”

Asked if he regretted any behavior around Portman, he said: “Some of me wish I could spend the next two hours deconstructing everything … but there are levels of complexity and nuance that I really can’t get into. ‘

He concluded: “There is a part of me in retrospect who wants not to have written the book. But then, sales figures indicate that not so many people have read it.

Speaking about how he avoided the negative attention of the press at the time, Moby explained: “If you talk to my managers or the people I work with, I only have an iron-clad rule, which is: don’t send me press links or reviews because I don’t read anything.

“When the madness happened a few years ago, I took refuge in my ignorance. Obviously, it became hard to ignore, especially when I made the tabloids camp in front of my door. But I think I realized that if everyone in the world hates me, I can wake up in the same comfortable bed every morning and go hiking.

“Out of control”: referring to that period in the early 2000s, Moby said on Monday that he was “addicted to drinks and drugs”