Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied are finally parting ways. The couple who separated last year eventually filed for divorce in France this week. The former couple tied the knot in 2012 and even shahres 12-year-old son Aleph and 7-year-old daughter Amalia. Portman confirms the news to Entertainment Tonight announcing the couple finalized their divorce last month in France. As per the sources of People the Oscar winner filed for divorce in July 2023.
Their togetherness of more than a decade got immensly affected after Millepied was accused of having an affair with a 25-year-old woman. Shortly after the news came out , the actress was spotted without her wedding ring. Recently in an interview with Vanity Fair’s 30th annual Hollywood issue the mother of two addressed her marriage with the choreographer.
Natalie Portman said her separation is terrible
Talking with the outlet the 46-year-old said, “It’s terrible, and I have no desire to contribute to it.”
Although she didn’t said much about the split she addressed how seperating her public and private life is an essential thing which she continues to do from her childhood.
“I got very protective of it very early on,” The May December star explained. “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.”
“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,” she continued. “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.”
Moreover, the actress added, “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. 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. I have many interactions during my day as a public person. To exclude that from my experience is not real.”
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