Moby cancels book tour amid Natalie Portman scandal

Moby has cancelled his book tour following a very public war of words with Natalie Portman who claims he was once “creepy” to her.

Moby has cancelled his book tour dates in the UK, just days after he apologised to actress Natalie Portman for the way he wrote about her in his new memoir.

The 53-year-old singer had been scheduled to speak at a series of events in the UK and Ireland in early June to promote Then It Fell Apart, but according to his website, those dates and all other upcoming appearances have been cancelled.

“Moby is cancelling all upcoming public appearances for the foreseeable future,” a statement on his website said. “We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. All tickets will be refunded at the point of purchase, and Moby is happy to provide signed bookplates to everyone who bought tickets to these events.”

The singer also posted on Instagram to say he is “going away for a while”.

“But before I do I want to apologise again, and to say clearly that all of this has been my own fault,” he wrote. “I am the one who released the book without showing it to the people I wrote about. I’m the one who posted defensively and arrogantly. I’m the one who behaved inconsiderately and disrespectfully, both in 2019 and in 1999.”

In his memoir, Moby claimed he dated Natalie Portman.

“There is obviously no one else to blame but me,” he concluded. “Thank you, and I’m sorry.”

The news of his cancelled events comes only days after the singer apologised to the Black Swan actress, 37, for the way he wrote about her.

In his memoir, Moby went into detail about his alleged relationship with the Oscar winner and how he met her backstage at one of his concerts.

He said she was “flirting” with him in his dressing room, and afterwards, he tried to pursue dating her in the early 2000s.

However, Portman shut down the dating claims and said she found him “creepy” back then.

“I was surprised to hear that he characterised the very short time that I knew him as dating because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school,” the mother of two said in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK.

“That he used this story to sell his book was very disturbing to me. It wasn’t the case. There are many factual errors and inventions. I would have liked him or his publisher to reach out to fact check.”

Portman denied Moby’s claim. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

At first, Moby declared she was lying in her statement but then backtracked and wrote an apology he posted on social media.

“As some time has passed I’ve realised that many of the criticisms levelled at me regarding my inclusion of Natalie in Then It Fell Apart are very valid,” Moby said in the statement. “I also fully recognise 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.”

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