Oh dear.
Moby has cancelled a string of appearances after he was criticised for claims he made about actress Natalie Portman in his latest book.
According to a message on Moby’s website, he “is canceling all upcoming public appearances for the foreseeable future.”
“All tickets will be refunded at the point of purchase, and moby is happy to provide signed bookplates to everyone who bought tickets to these events,” the message said.
Moby was scheduled to appear at Dublin’s Liberty Hall to discuss his book as well as a host of other locations across the UK.
In an Instagram message he called the “last post”, Moby wrote: “I want to apologise again, and to say clearly that all of this has been my own fault.
“I am the one who released the book without showing it to the people I wrote about. I’m the one who posted defensively and arrogantly. I’m the one who behaved inconsiderately and disrespectfully, both in 2019 and in 1999.
“There is obviously no one else to blame but me. Thank you and I’m sorry.”
The tour was in support of his new book Then It Fell Apart, which has been met with controversy due to a passage about Natalie Portman, in which he claimed they had dated briefly.
Portman said there were “many factual errors and inventions” in his writing and that she was surprised “to hear that he characterised 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”.
She said: “He said I was 20; I definitely wasn’t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18. That he used this story to sell his book was very disturbing to me.”
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