Author Neil Gaiman denies allegations of engaging in non-consensual sex
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Best-selling author of books for adults and children Neil Gaiman has denied allegations he engaged in non-consensual sex with several women. A New York Magazine article detailed allegations of assault, abuse, and coercion levelled against the 64-year-old by eight women. A Tortoise Media podcast broadcast in July included allegations of four of these women.
Gaiman said in a statement that he had watched stories about him circulate online for months with "horror and dismay". "As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there are moments I half-recognise and moments I don't, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen," Gaiman posted on the social media platform Tumblr.
"I'm far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever.". The British author said he had reviewed messages exchanged with his accusers, and they read like "two people enjoying entirely consensual sexual relationships and wanting to see one another again," he said.
"And I also realise, looking through them, years later, that I could have and should have done so much better. I was emotionally unavailable while being sexually available, self-focused and not as thoughtful as I could or should have been. I was obviously careless with people's hearts and feelings, and that's something that I really, deeply regret," Gaiman said.
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