David Bridges
Girls supporting ladies—we like to see it!
Throughout an look on Monday’s episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, Natalie Portman, 43 — who finalized her divorce from her husband Benjamin Millepied, 47, in February — spoke about assembly Rihanna, 36, at Paris Trend Week in January.
Portman expressed, “I believe each girl going by a divorce ought to get to have Rihanna say to her that she’s a foul b**ch.”
Within the healthful interplay shared by Bustle on Instagram again in January, the 2 superstars embraced one another, and Portman instructed the singer, “I like you!”
“I’m a f***ing fan,” Rihanna replied, including that the V for Vendetta actor is “one of many hottest b**ches in Hollywood.”
“I’m going to faint,” Portman instructed Rihanna. “I’m going to black out.”
The Oscar-winner additional defined to Fallon that the empowering assertion from the Grammy winner was “precisely what [she] wanted” whereas splitting from her husband of greater than a decade. “It was a formative second in my life.”
The late-night present host celebrated the second by giving Portman a standing ovation and saying, “That’s an enormous deal.”
Portman filed for divorce final July, and it was finalized in February in France, the place she and Millepied, whom she married in 2012 two years after assembly on the set of her hit 2010 movie Black Swan (on which he served as choreographer), had been dwelling. Additionally they lived there with their kids: son Aleph, 13, and daughter Amalia, 7.
However in keeping with an unique with PEOPLE, they confirmed in March that she and her husband of 11 years, Millepied, had formally divorced after quietly separating eight months prior.
Prior, the Black Swan star had solely ever commented on the general public hypothesis surrounding their marriage, telling Self-importance Honest in February: “It’s horrible, and I’ve no need to contribute to it.” She was additionally reportedly seen stepping out repeatedly with out her wedding ceremony ring.
A buddy of the couple then instructed PEOPLE in March relating to the pair’s divorce, “It was initially actually robust for her, however her buddies rallied round her and helped get her by the worst of it.”
“Natalie is popping out of a very robust and painful 12 months however she’s come out the opposite aspect of it stronger and is discovering pleasure in her household, buddies and work,” the supply added.
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