Natalie Portman Divulges What Rihanna Said to Help ​Her Through Divorce ​From Benjamin Millepied

Following months of adjacent full soundlessness regarding her divorcement from Benjamin Millepied successful February, character Natalie Portman revealed really immoderate fierce, yet encouraging, words from Rihanna helped her header pinch nan process.

Natalie, 43, sat down pinch Jimmy Fallon connected Monday, July 15, and watched a video of ​herself gathering nan vocalist during a Paris Fashion Week show earlier this twelvemonth successful January.

“You’re 1 of nan hottest bitches successful Hollywood,” Rihanna, 36, told nan Oscar victor successful nan video.

Visibly flushed, Natalie ​replied, “I’m going to faint. I’m going to walk out,” earlier embracing nan popular star.

“I deliberation each female going done a divorcement should get to person Rihanna opportunity to her that she’s a bad bitch,” Natalie told Jimmy, 49.

Meeting Rihanna was intelligibly an awesome infinitesimal for nan actress. “It was precisely what I needed,” she said.

“That’s a large deal,” Jimmy agreed.

“It was a formative infinitesimal successful my life,” she added.

Natalie besides talked astir nan “confidence boost of a lifetime” connected Monday’s section of Today. Discussing nan relationship pinch big Hoda Kotb, nan character spilled that it was “exactly what I needed astatine that infinitesimal successful my life.”

“I was truthful excited to spot her,” Natalie continued. “I thought I was conscionable going to spell up and show her that I was a large fan. So it was conscionable a very large compliment that she was truthful benignant to me.”

“She served it to me,” she continued. “I’m everlastingly grateful.”

Natalie first met Benjamin, 47, connected nan group of Black Swan successful 2009. ​By nan pursuing year, Natalie was pregnant pinch their first child, Adelph, now 13. They confirmed their engagement astatine nan extremity of 2010.

The mates had been surviving successful France pinch their boy and daughter, Amalia, 7, since marrying successful 2012. However, backmost successful June 2023, ​rumors of Benjamin’s infidelity surfaced, though neither he nor Natalie person addressed nan reports.

She worked connected moving past it for their children’s sake, but ended up “officially pulling nan plug connected her marriage,” a root told Life & Style successful January.

Natalie finalized her divorcement from Benjamin successful February, aft much than ​11 years of marriage. They had softly separated earlier past astir nan clip nan Star Wars character first revenge nan papers successful July 2023.

“She really tried forgiving Benjamin — nan past point she imagined successful her life was a divorcement — but she could not get past nan betrayal,” nan root added.

“Natalie is proud of really decisive she has been astir splitting pinch Ben and protecting her kids from a drawn-out fight. She’s turning nan page and not looking back.”

Apparently, nan prima kept “a very mini societal circle” while married, which may beryllium uncovering a caller partner difficult. Luckily, Brad Pitt and woman Ines de Ramon are connected nan case.

“Despite their property difference, Brad and Natalie person been friends for astir 15 years, and members of their business teams are very adjacent too,” nan root dished.

“Brad is proud of his way grounds of mounting group up, and acknowledgment to his caller sober, AA-oriented lifestyle, he has a batch of wildly successful friends who are successful nan nonstop aforesaid spot Natalie is: starting complete and trying to build a caller life.”