J.K. Rowling says her former husband emotionally and physically abused her in the early 1990s, using their daughter and her Harry Potter manuscript to coerce her not to leave their marriage.
At one point, she said, her former husband hid her manuscript - and she began to sneak pages into work to photocopy them because she suspected he would otherwise "burn it."
While the broad strokes of Rowling's experience were known - she revealed in a public letter in 2020 that she is a survivor of "domestic abuse and sexual assault" - the new details shared in the podcast interview show how books beloved by millions almost didn't come to be. She described a sense of isolation and lack of control during their marriage. "At this point, he's searching my handbag every time I come home. I haven't got a key to my own front door because he's got to control the front door. I think he knew, or suspected, that I was going to try and bolt again," she said.
Rowling began to make plans to go to her sister's home in Scotland. But her Harry Potter manuscript "still meant so much to me," so she also made a plan to preserve it, suspecting that "if I wasn't able to get out with everything, he would burn it or take it or hold it hostage." More than 500 million copies of the Harry Potter books have been sold worldwide since. The series holds the Guinness World Record title for best-selling children's book series. This success has turned Rowling into a household name and one of the most successful authors of all time. While the last of the seven-part series came out in 2007, children and adults today continue to immerse themselves in the wizarding world of Hogwarts.
Other cast members have publicly defended Rowling, including Ralph Fiennes, who played the evil Lord Voldemort. He told the New York Times last year that "the verbal abuse directed at her is disgusting, it's appalling."
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