Moby is doubling down on claims that he dated Natalie Portman—despite Portman saying that they were just friends and that she found claims is in his memoir that they were romantic “disturbing.”

In the new book, Then It Fell Apart, Moby describes meeting Portman backstage at one of his shows when she was 20 and he was 33. He claims that he subsequently met Portman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was a student at the time, and that they “held hands and wandered around Harvard, kissing under the centuries-old oak trees. At midnight she brought me to her dorm room and we lay down next to each other on her small bed. After she fell asleep I carefully extracted myself from her arms and took a taxi back to my hotel.” He later describes her breaking up with him via phone, telling him she met someone else.

Portman denied the story and expressed her discomfort at hearing about it during Moby’s press tour for his book in a British Harper’s Bazaar interview on Tuesday. “I was surprised to hear that he characterized the very short time that I knew him as dating because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school,” Portman said. “He said I was 20; I definitely wasn’t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18. There was no fact-checking from him or his publisher—it almost feels deliberate. That he used this story to sell his book was very disturbing to me. It wasn’t the case. There are many factual errors and inventions. I would have liked him or his publisher to reach out to fact-check.”

She went on to slam any idea that she and the singer were ever intimate: “I was a fan and went to one of his shows when I had just graduated,” she said. “When we met after the show, he said, ‘Let’s be friends’. He was on tour and I was working, shooting a film, so we only hung out a handful of times before I realized that this was an older man who was interested in me in a way that felt inappropriate.”

Now Moby is still insisting that they dated, via an Instagram post defending his version of events: “I recently read a gossip piece wherein Natalie Portman said that we’d never dated,” a caption under a photo of him and Portman reads. “This confused me, as we did, in fact, date. And after briefly dating in 1999 we remained friends for years. I like Natalie, and I respect her intelligence and activism. But, to be honest, I can’t figure out why she would actively misrepresent the truth about our (albeit brief) involvement. The story as laid out in my book Then It Fell Apart is accurate, with lots of corroborating photo evidence, etc. Thanks, Moby.” In a postscript, he said he would “completely respect Natalie’s possible regret in dating me (to be fair, I would probably regret dating me, too), but it doesn’t alter the actual facts of our brief romantic history.”

Who’s to say what’s creepiest among Moby’s actions: using a benign photo to try and corroborate his story, as if Portman is denying that the two ever met? Not addressing the fact that, yes, Portman was actually 18 when they did? (Portman was born in 1981; Moby dates their first meeting to September 1999.) He also talks about dating Lana Del Rey before she was Lana Del Rey in his memoir—no word from her on that yet. If Moby is indeed walking around downtown New York right now (as his most recent Instagram stories and post imply), part of me thinks I should head out on a Moby-finding expedition so I can sit him down and say, “Please desist.” But then he might think we were dating.