Benjamin Millepied Seems Nice

Previously thought impossible, Benjamin Millepied managed to get a contact high off Natalie Portman’s fame. Being Mr. Natalie Portman has gone to his head it seems.

At an awards party a few nights ago, a New York Times reporter dared to ask how Natalie Portman was doing which pissed Benjamin off enough to try and have them thrown out of the event.

According to the NYDN, the reporter’s questions were innocuous enough to begin with, asking about his background and career, but then they jokingly asked if Millepied had done anything “armylike” to receive his award. “She was riffing on the fact that in the U.S., the Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration bestowed by the government to brave American soldiers, not French ballet dancers,” explained NYDN.

That went over his head prompting Millepied to shoot back, “You’re being funny?” Well, I don’t know, were they? Maybe he was asking an honest question. Regardless, everything went downhill from there.

The worst was yet to come. As Nir wrote in The Times, shortly after her reporter politely asked, “How’s Natalie doing?” “Mr. Millepied stormed off, oozing exquisite hauteur. The kind, we suspect, that can emanate only from a ballet divo engaged to a megastar.”

Although our source says reporters had not been warned in advance to refrain from asking about Portman, Nir wrote that shortly after Millepied stalked away, “we were told by the organizers that our inquiring after Ms. Portman’s health was ‘inappropriate’ and that Mr. Millepied wanted us out.”

“Later still, we were told we could stay if we didn’t report,” Nir continues. “We left.” Bravo.

Mr. Natalie Portman seems easily offended. Maybe all those years of being a high stakes ballerina have gotten to him. “It’s not your life on the line, man!,” he’s been known to say while doing a pirouette.