{"id":92560,"date":"2019-05-23T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivaglammagazine.com\/?p=92560"},"modified":"2020-05-29T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T21:23:35","slug":"he-said-she-said-what-do-you-do-when-youre-telling-the-truth-and-people-simply-dont-believe-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivaglammagazine.com\/he-said-she-said-what-do-you-do-when-youre-telling-the-truth-and-people-simply-dont-believe-you\/","title":{"rendered":"He Said, She Said. What Do You Do When You\u2019re Telling the Truth and People Simply Don\u2019t Believe You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Moby claims he once dated Natalie Portman; she says he\u2019s lying.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve been anywhere near Instagram this week<\/a>, you\u2019ve seen the feud currently going on between musician, Moby, and actress Natalie Portman.  Long story short, he says they once dated, albeit for a short time only. She is denying his claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his biography, Then It Fell Apart<\/em>, he recalls their romance that occurred back in 1999.  She, in turn, has denied they ever went out in the first place.  According to Moby, this has caused him great mental anguish, stress and this is now affecting his overall health.  He wrote on his Instagram account, \u201cI recently read a gossip piece wherein Natalie Portman said that we\u2019d 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\u2019t 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<\/em> is accurate, with lots of corroborating photo evidence, etc. I completely respect Natalie\u2019s possible regret in dating me (to be fair, I would probably regret dating me, too), but it doesn\u2019t alter the actual facts of our brief romantic history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natalie has gone on to describe Moby as \u201ccreepy\u201d<\/a> and insisted that she did not have a relationship with him.  She countered back with, \u201cI was surprised to hear that he characterized 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.  He said I was 20; I definitely wasn\u2019t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18. There was no fact checking from him or his publisher \u2014 it almost feels deliberate. I was a fan and went to one of his shows when I had just graduated. When we met after the show, he said, \u2018Let\u2019s be friends.\u2019 He was on tour and I was working, shooting a film, so we only hung out a handful of times before I realized that this was an older man who was interested in me in a way that felt inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Moby is reaching out to his fans on Instagram asking, \u201cSincerely, what should I do when people believe accusations and not evidence?\u201d  He went on to lament, \u201cSo, what should I do? What do you do when people believe lies and accusations and not actual photographs and evidence?  I want to take the high road, but I honestly don\u2019t know what to do. It\u2019s one thing to be lied about, and entirely another when someone\u2019s lies result in physical threats from complete strangers.\u201d  Apparently, Natalie Portman supporters are trolling and threatening him online.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moby responded to these haters with, \u201cDear trolls, I just don\u2019t know if hating a stranger is the best use of your one, short life.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Understandably, Moby is upset. He feels threatened, stressed and probably a bit pissed off, too.  But what should you do when you are indeed telling the truth and people think you are the one lying?  One commenter on Moby\u2019s feed said, \u201cIn my limited experience, the key is to stop caring.  You do YOU, and don\u2019t worry about other people and how they do.\u201d  And another follower said, \u201cLeave it be, the more you revisit, the worse it looks. And it looks really bad right now. Just leave it. Move on. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps this is the best solution. After all, you can only control your own actions, not the actions of others. People will believe what they choose to believe, whether it is the truth or not. And haters will be, inevitably, haters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another fan said, \u201cThe best response is no response. Do nothing.\u201d This is strikingly similar to Buddha who once said, \u201cSilence is the best reply to a fool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moby and Natalie Portman definitely have different ideas of what exactly occurred between them.  And, perhaps, it is best to leave what really happened exactly when it happened\u2026back in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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