Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault allegations after accusations from multiple women
Share:
‘I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity,’ wrote the ‘American Gods’ author. Neil Gaiman has denied engaging in “non-consensual sexual activity” after accusations of assault by multiple women. “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. I’m far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever,” wrote Gaiman.
![[The writer has denied engaging in ‘non-consensual sexual activity’]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/06/02/08/newFile-4.jpg)
The author went on to say that he has reviewed correspondence with his accusers, writing: “I went back to read the messages I exchanged with the women around and following the occasions that have subsequently been reported as being abusive. These messages read now as they did when I received them – of two people enjoying entirely consensual sexual relationships and wanting to see one another again. At the time I was in those relationships, they seemed positive and happy on both sides.”.
However he did acknowledge personal failings, adding: “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. It was selfish of me. I was caught up in my own story and I ignored other people’s.”.
Share:
More for You
