Us Weekly continues to have some exclusive reporting about Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied, days after they were the first to say that Natalie and Ben have separated. Back in June, we learned that Benjamin had an affair with 25-year-old Camilla Etienne – a French tabloid had the photo evidence, and from Natalie’s furious damage control, I think we can safely say that the affair story was true and then some. I also believed the reporting, at the time, that Natalie and Benjamin’s marriage had been rocky for much of the past year, and that his affair was basically the final straw. A commenter also shared a theory that maybe Millepied wants out of the marriage and that’s why there’s all of this “are they separated” drama – Natalie wants to be the one who leaves him, she doesn’t want to look like she got dumped. Which is a decent theory. And it might explain this new Us Weekly story:
Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied separated after his alleged affair, but the actress believes he has some remorse for his actions.
“She has no doubt he regrets what he did,” a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly, adding that “things just haven’t been the same” since. “It was a really humiliating scenario for Natalie.”
A second source says the pair — who share two children together — “tried to work things out” to no avail. “The damage was done,” the source tells Us. “She couldn’t forgive him and is taking a break for now.”
While Millepied’s alleged infidelity seems to have been the last straw, the first insider notes that he and Portman had been having issues for a while. “The spark has been missing for a really long time,” the insider says.
While Portman is currently “focusing on the kids, her work and taking care of herself,” she still thinks Millepied “is a great dad” to their son Aleph, 12, and daughter Amalia, 6.
“She has no doubt he regrets what he did” – like, did he say that though? Did he actually beg for forgiveness and promise to never stick it in a 25-year-old again? Or has Benjamin not really shown much remorse whatsoever while Natalie has been in damage-control mode because he genuinely humiliated her? While everyone is bringing up the fact that Benjamin dumped his live-in girlfriend for Natalie, like… they had two kids together. She moved to France (partly) for him. She really seemed to love him. And he seems like such a prick.
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- Paris, FRANCE – Actress Natalie Portman puts on a brave face to watch the French L1 football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Clermont Foot 63 at the Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris, France. Natalie and her husband Benjamin Millepied are in the headlines after it was revealed that Benjamin had an extramarital affair! Pictured: Natalie Portman BACKGRID USA 3 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Paris, FRANCE – Actress Natalie Portman puts on a brave face to watch the French L1 football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Clermont Foot 63 at the Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris, France. Natalie and her husband Benjamin Millepied are in the headlines after it was revealed that Benjamin had an extramarital affair! Pictured: Natalie Portman BACKGRID USA 3 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Paris, FRANCE – Natalie Portman set aside her personal drama to enjoy a gripping sporting spectacle today when she was pictured smiling happily during an appearance at the French Open – amid reports that her husband of 11 years has been having an affair with a younger woman. The Oscar-winning actress, 41, looked in great spirits as she watched Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff the quarter-final match in Paris, despite a turbulent week that has thrown her personal life into the center of a furious scandal. Wearing a pretty print mini dress and a £690 Dior straw hat to keep cool in the sizzling temperatures, Natalie sat next to a male friend, with whom she enjoyed an animated conversation. Pictured: Natalie Portman BACKGRID USA 7 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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Why drag it out? Does one need a carefully timed divorce announcement to achieve maximum sympathy? Must it be tied to a movie premiere (provided it’s after the strike ends so you could attend)? Or maybe there is ambivalence. From the tone of this article, it sounds like it’s over. But why believe the article at all? I’ll wait for the announcement.
I mean… can we ever know what these two people talked about in their private moments or what he said to her and vice versa? It could very well be true that he begged for forgiveness or told her he regretted it – that’s what MOST cheaters do so it’s not outside the realm of possibility. It also doesn’t mean that he hadn’t done it before or would do it again. It sounds to me like Natalie wanted to see if it they could repair the marriage and they simply couldn’t. Trust is a hard thing to rebuild.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he does want out of the marriage more than Natalie does. Nothing says midlife crisis more than going for a 25 year old because the spark was missing with his wife of 12 years, who works and has 2 children. Tale as old as time.
I second the idea that, however it started, she spent 12 years with him and they built a family together. She doesn’t *deserve* this for getting involved with a taken man more than a decade ago. She also shouldn’t feel humiliated. He’s a douche canoe, not her fault.
“She also shouldn’t feel humiliated. He’s a douche canoe, not her fault.”
I totally agree with this. I’ve never understood why anyone says the person who is cheated on has been humiliated. Cheating is not some power alpha move, it’s gross loser behaviour.
I remember when they got together during/after Black Swan. I knew then BM was going to break her heart. Sometimes you just know. This guy is a creep and a career climber.
And I have no doubt that she is wrong. He is a cheater and he will do it again. She should stop living in the land of make believe he is no prince and she sure is no princess.
Does he regret the affair, or does he regret getting caught? In most cases, the latter is true.
Natalie should just cut and run.
One of the funniest lines from “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”: “To have an affair, that is French. To get caught — that is American.”
CDAN insinuated that the 25 year old is pregnant & that did it. French men
So, he cheated on his famous girlfriend and got the sidepiece pregnant so left the famous girlfriend and married the pregnant sidepiece…and looks to be doing it all over again 12 years later to his wife.
Two Geminis. It’s hard to make it work.
I just can’t get past his alien head
@minnieder. Yes!!! I don’t know why I didn’t notice before but his forehead is HUGE! Classic alien head shape! 👽
“The damage was done,” the source tells Us. “She couldn’t forgive him”
Again he did this with Natalie while he was living with his girlfriend so she cant be surprised she knew who she was when she married him. I think it’s a mixture of her ego to think he wouldn’t do that to her and her team leaking these kinds of quotes to get public sympathy flies in the face of his ex who she cheated with him on, so no sympathy for her but we should have it for you? Yeah I think Natalie thought she was above this and he wouldn’t do to her what he did to another woman. I thought maybe she got pregnant fast and they tried to put a bandaid on it?
This comments reeks of someone who is shocked that he cheated on them and is trying to convince themselves that he is regretful when she knows he isn’t really. It also suggests that it’s likely not the first time that he’s cheated on her – he was a known cheater when she got with him.
I feel for the children – it will be hard on them.
I find all the speculation funny, because as others said, we will never know the full story. We aren’t privy to the details of their marriage.
I feel like I say this over & over, but I am currently in the midst of a divorce, I was cheated on. It’s lead me to read a lot on a forum for others going through the same. And we all do the same thing, we all go over our on “cases” with a fine toothed comb, trying to figure out what parts of our cheater’s stories are true and what are lies.
A fundamental truth is that they will only admit to what you can prove, and even then, they will still try to lie.* It’s maddening.
But my longwinded point is that for us Celebitches trying to parse out the Portman/Miilipied situation? It has even MORE layers. MAYBE he said he is sorry. IF he said it, he might actually mean it or it could just be a lie. IF he means he is sorry, it might mean he is sorry for what he did, OR just sorry he got caught.
And maybe he never even said it at all and her camp is just putting it out there as damage control so the narrative she wants is what hits the press. We will never know the truth. She probably won’t. For all we know, this is the 6th time he cheated on her, and maybe she caught him cheating every other time but this is the first one that the media caught wind of. Or he cheated on her 600 times, and this is the first time she caught him.
*one forum for people who have been cheated on did a special post asking “what was the craziest lie you believed?” I wish I could remember a bunch, because they were crazy, it’s easy to overlook something that you do not WANT to see. One person found an opened box of condoms in her husband’s suitcase when he came back from a trip. Rather than fessing up, he told her he liked to use them when he masturbated when travelling. Cheaters are AWFUL. Their lies aren’t even good.
It’s kind of amusing that so many here are coming at this like y’all are living in their house or were a fly on the wall of his past relationships from over a decade ago. We don’t know all that’s happened. And we’ll never know because *shocker* we weren’t there! Timelines aren’t super definitive and fact here. I’ve also seen we’ve gotten to the part where fan fiction is basically being written about this in the comments, which is so weird because I shouldn’t have to say that we don’t know these people lol. We do know this time he cheated because there’s actual photographic evidence that makes it way too obvious. Anyway, who knows if this new reporting is even all that true or if she feels an entirely different way now. Again, we’ll never know. Just in general, it sucks that the person it happens to always ends up feeling humiliated because it shouldn’t be that way and it does feel like the person who stepped out does have all the ~power. And I just want to say I genuinely hope the people in y’all’s lives have better people to turn to when sh*t goes sideways in their lives because yikes!