Natalie Portman is “still hurt” after Benjamin Millepied’s affair, however Us Weekly insiders say she’s getting a recent begin in 2024.
“She didn’t give up on [her marriage] lightly,” a supply completely reveals within the newest concern of Us. “But it became pretty apparent toward the end of last year that her heart had gone out of it.”
A second insider notes that “Natalie and Ben actually started having problems over a year ago.” Millepied, 46, “would sometimes not return home and was taking work trips that didn’t add up,” the supply says, including that Portman, 42, “began to suspect infidelity.”
The Could December actress “was humiliated and utterly crushed by Benjamin’s behavior,” the second supply claims, explaining that Portman is now “taking time to focus on herself.”
Us confirmed in August 2023 that Portman and Millepied separated after 11 years of marriage. Their break up got here after rumors swirled in June 2023 that Millepied was having an affair with 25-year-old local weather activist Camille Étienne.
Whereas Portman initially caught by her estranged partner, she seemingly hinted on the breakup earlier this month when she advised The Wall Avenue Journal that she “lives in Paris with her two children” however didn’t point out Millepied.
When Portman stepped out on the 2024 Governors Awards on January 9, she seemed to be in a brand new relationship period. The actress was noticeably not carrying her marriage ceremony ring.
Portman “looked the other way for a long time,” the second supply tells Us, sharing that the Oscar winner’s associates “told her, ‘You lose him how you get him,’” referring to how the estranged spouses first met. Millepied reportedly left his live-in girlfriend, Isabella Boylston, to hook up with Portman after they began to work collectively on the set of 2010’s Black Swan.
“Benjamin is so charming and eloquent — he really casts a spell on women. He has a power of drawing people in,” the insider says. That attraction labored on Portman who married the choreographer in 2012. The pair went on to welcome son Aleph, 12, and daughter Amalia, 6.
Their relationship, nevertheless, got here to an finish in August 2023, which is when “Natalie decided to leave him” and inside weeks had “moved out,” the second supply shares. “Even though she has been living with the kids apart from him, he’s still very much in their lives,” the insider says.
The Star Wars actress suspects “Ben has been cheating on her for many years,” the insider claims to Us, however above all Portman “wants to keep the peace for the sake of their family, so she is being very civil.”
After a rocky yr, Portman is trying towards the long run and retaining herself busy with work and sticking near her internal circle. “She’s incredibly smart and philosophical about everything she does, but at the end of the day, she’s a realist who isn’t going to stick around trying to save something that’s unfixable,” the primary insider explains, including that Portman “gave this marriage her best shot.”
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