Natalie Portman Recalls ‘Hottest B*tch’ Compliment From Rihanna Amid Divorce: 'Exactly What I Needed'

Natalie Portman got some love from Rihanna when she needed it most.

Everyone remembers that adorable moment when the “Diamonds” singer, 36, and Oscar-winning actress, 43, were fangirling out over each other at a Paris Fashion Week event in January.

The two stars briefly linked up outside of the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2024 show before giving each other nothing but mutual adoration.

"You are one of the hottest bitches in Hollywood," Rihanna was heard saying in the now-infamous viral video.

"Excuse me? I'm gonna faint," said Portman before gushing about listening to Rih’s music “all the time.”

“I don’t get excited about anybody,” Rihanna added.

Portman made an appearance on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday and was asked about the encounter.

“It was an amazing experience for me,” Portman told Fallon, 49, at the 2:10 mark in the video below. “I think every woman going through a divorce should get to have Rihanna say to her that she's a bad bitch.”

The Black Swan star told Fallon it was “exactly what I needed" and described their meeting as “a formative moment in my life."

According to People, Portman split from 46-year-old director and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, whom she was married to for 11 years. Media reports emerged in May 2023 that Millepied had an extramarital affair.

Portman filed for divorce last July and it became finalized in February.

The divorce proceedings were completed in France, where Portman and Millepied live with their children Aleph, 12, and Amalia, 7.

Portman’s limited series Lady in the Lake, whose production had been briefly interrupted in 2022 due to threats of violence in Baltimore, Maryland, premieres on July 19 on Apple TV+.