Last modified on Mon 12 Apr 2021 09.32 EDT
Moby is considering the question he is often asked in interviews: âDo I think Iâve been treated unfairly?â muses the 55-year-old musician, who, letâs face it, is hardly a stranger to terrible press. âHonestly, I donât think I have been. Iâm sure there are times when Iâve been portrayed badly and it was accurate. And even with some of the bad stuff Iâve been through, I donât have any right to complain. When you look at the 8 billion people on the planet, a reasonably affluent caucasian cis-gendered male public figure musician is not necessarily the first person you think of as having valid criticisms about how theyâre being treated.â
Don t show me this message again✕
Moby has discussed the controversy surrounding his claims that he dated actor Natalie Portman in his 2019 memoir.
The musician was criticised after stating in his book,
Then It Fell Apart, that he had dated Portman, a claim she denied.
Portman said she recalled “a much older man being creepy with me”, adding: “He said I was 20; I definitely wasn’t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18.”
Moby, who is 16 years older than Portman, later apologised for behaving “inconsiderately and disrespectfully”.
When asked about the scandal in a new interview with
The Guardian, Moby said: “You know, you’re asking me to open up such a can of worms… There’s no good way to answer: one option is terrible, the other is really terrible. So if we were playing chess right now, this is the part where I’d pick up my phone and pretend I’ve got an emergency call.”