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I WAS TOO DRUNK FOR MUM’S FUNERAL

MOBY CONFESSES HE WAS IN BED AND ‘PASSED OUT’

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OBY is to bare his soul for a brutal d documentar­y – in which he confesses to missing his mum’s funeral b because he h was ‘in bed, drunk, passed out’.

The Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad hitmaker discusses the dark side of fame in the film but it won’t include his spat with Oscar winner Natalie Portman, who dubbed him a ‘creepy old man’.

Explaining why he is making Moby Doc, the 55-year-old said he admires ‘other public figures who’ve attempted to be honest’.

Moby – whose dad died in a drink-driving accident when he was two – added that it’s not only honesty from well-known people that he appreciate­s but also from fellow alcoholics he meets at AA meetings. ‘People who are willing to openly discuss the things that so many people are either ashamed of, or work so hard to hide,’ he explained.

The film is set to be explosive after he previously confessed to 8am benders that involved ‘bags of drugs... 15 drinks... having sex with a complete stranger’.

Now Moby is happy to publicly own his flaws. But he says his run-in with Natalie is a sideshow and will not feature. He was driven to apologise after claiming in his 2019 memoir that he had dated the 39-year-old Black Swan star. Natalie slapped down his recollecti­ons, describing their interactio­n as ‘a much older man being creepy with me’. She added: ‘He said I was 20; I definitely wasn’t. I had just turned 18.’ Explaining why that chapter hit the cutting-room floor, Moby said: ‘It got a lot of attention, but it was, just in terms of page count, an incredibly minor... banal part of the book.’ He is dropping the doc on May 28, along with new album Reprise.

Owning his flaws: The star is frank about his mistakes in Moby Doc

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