Neil Gaiman Refutes Sexual Assault Allegations: ‘I Have Never Engaged in Non-Consensual Sexual Activity’

After months of swirling allegations, the author took to his blog to deny accounts that “emphatically did not happen”

Neil Gaiman attends the 2024 Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony on April 14, 2024 in New York City
Neil Gaiman attends the 2024 Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony on April 14, 2024 in New York City (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Writers Guild of America East)

Neil Gaiman denied sexual assault allegations on his blog Tuesday after a New York Magazine cover story accused the author of misconduct with four additional women.

“I’m far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever,” Gaiman wrote in a blog post Tuesday. “As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there are moments I half-recognize and moments I don’t, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen.”

In the entry titled “Breaking the Silence,” Gaiman said he went back to re-read messages exchanged with the women who accused the author of sexual misconduct and lack of consent, and said he stands behind the messages’ intent.

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