Actress Natalie Portman, 27, doesn’t usually talk to the media about her personal life, but after all the tabloid stories linking her with 48-year-old actor Sean Penn, she has decided to speak out…
In a statement released to Extra, the actress denies being in a relationship with the actor. “Sean Penn is a friend and colleague. The reports that we are romantically involved are completely untrue. I normally do not respond to rumors about my private life, however, this repeatedly fabricated story has forced me to do so,” she tells the tabloid.
We are not really sure how the romance rumors started, but the fact that Penn and his wife of 13 years, Robin Wright Penn, separated earlier this year might have had something to do with it…