"Made a huge mistake": Husband cheated on Natalie Portman with a 25-year-old activist

Photo: EPA/SEBASTIEN NOGIER/Instagram/Camille Etjan

The American actress Natalie Portman and the French ballet dancer Benjamin Miyipye are currently trying to save their marriage after she discovered he had an affair with a 25-year-old girl, Page Six reported.

The couple, who got married in 2012, already separated last year, but managed to overcome their relationship problems.

New photos, taken in France, suggest that Miyipje was quite close to the young environmental activist Camille Etienne.

"Natalie and Ben are still together and trying to work things out. Ben does everything he can to convince Natalie to forgive him. He loves her and their family," a source told Page Six.

Natalie Portman and Benjamin Miyipje at last year's Oscar party / Photo: EPA-EFE/NINA PROMMER

"Privacy is important to Natalie and, right now, she wants to protect their children the most," the source added.

The alleged affair "was short-lived" and is now "over," reports People magazine, and Miyipje called it a "huge mistake."

Portman recently promoted her new film "May December" at the Cannes Film Festival, and since then there have been rumors that her marriage is on "glass legs". The celebrity couple were last photographed together in France in May, when photos of them kissing over dinner were also published.

Namely, the young activist is known for her short films about the environment and wrote the book "Pour un soulèvement écologique: Dépasser notre impuissance collective" ("For an ecological uprising: overcoming our collective impotence").

Camille Etjan / Photo: Instagram/Camille Etjan

As a reminder, Portman and Miyipje met in 2009, on the set of the Oscar-winning film "Black Swan". Namely, he made the choreography for this film.

The couple got engaged in 2010 and had a wedding ceremony in 2012.

Portman was pregnant with their first child during the 2011 Academy Awards, when she won the prestigious film award in the Best Actress category for her performance in Black Swan.

"To my love, Benjamin Miyipye, who choreographed this movie and gave me the most important role of my life," she said at the time, pointing to her pregnant belly.

They have two children – Aleppo (12) and Amelia (6)

The famous couple at the Oscars in 2011 / Photo: EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT

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