Natalie Portman Breaks Silence On Cheating Rumors About Husband Benjamin Millepied
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Natalie Portman broke her silence on cheating rumors about her husband, Benjamin Millepied.
Last summer, it was alleged that he had an affair with Camille Étienne, a 25-year-old climate activist.
In a Vanity Fair interview, Natalie said she had "no desire to contribute" to the public discourse around her marriage.
Natalie Portman has no interest in fanning the flames of rumors about her marriage.
Last summer, news outlets reported that the actor’s husband, dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, had allegedly had an affair with Camille Étienne, a 25-year-old climate activist. Since then, Natalie and Benjamin have barely acknowledged the rumors, though both have been photographed in public without their wedding rings.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Natalie voiced her distaste for the public interest in her personal life.
“It’s terrible, and I have no desire to contribute to it,” she said.
She also opened up about valuing privacy as a public figure.
“I got very protective of it very early on,” she said. “I chose a different name when I started, which was kind of an interesting way that I separated identities. I would get upset if someone at school called me Natalie Portman. I was like, ‘If you know me, you know me as Natalie Hershlag at school.’ It was kind of an extreme bifurcation of identity that I’ve tried to integrate a little bit more as an adult.”
The dual identities created an internal struggle for her, she said: “I felt like it was not accepting that both were part of me, that there wasn’t a ‘real’ me and a ‘pretend’ me, and that they didn’t necessarily have different names. And it’s not just two different versions, there are multitudes of ways other people see me, both public and private, and there are multitudes of ways I see myself. Somehow the intersection of all of those are part of me, and it’s important to have all of those within me and as me, as opposed to being like, that’s some external thing, this is the real thing.”
Her mindset began to change when she and Benjamin, whom she married in 2012, welcomed their two children: Aleph, 12, and Amalia, 6.
“As I started having kids and a family, I started realizing that maybe it was not helpful to be like, ‘There’s two of me,’ ” she said. “I have many interactions during my day as a public person. To exclude that from my experience is not real.”
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