Regarding her divorce from Benjamin, Natalie Portman speaks up.
After her breakup, Natalie Portman discovered love in an unlikely location.
The Black Swan actress revealed that her initial encounter with Rihanna during her divorce from Benjamin Millepied was precisely what she needed.
On July 15, Natalie appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. «I think every woman going through a divorce should get to have Rihanna say to her that she’s a bad b—h,» Natalie stated. «That was—that’s precisely what I needed.»
Jimmy also jokingly wiped away a tear when he played the video of the «Umbrella» singer and Natalie’s first meeting,
in which Rihanna called Natalie «one of the hottest b—hes in Hollywood forever» and said that although she usually doesn’t get excited about meeting new people, Natalie was an exception.
She remarked, «It was a formative moment in my life.»
After more than ten years of marriage, Natalie and Benjamin—with whom she shares a son, Aleph, 12, and a daughter, Amalia, 7—finalized their divorce in March.
Natalie’s mention of her divorce is her first public statement on the subject since then.
The news that Benjamin, whom Natalie met on the set of Black Swan, had an affair was also confirmed more than a year after it was first reported by a number of media outlets.
Natalie only ever responded to the rumor by telling Vanity Fair in February that «it’s terrible, and I have no desire to contribute to it.»
