JK Rowling

The former TV reporter is the father of her 27-year-old daughter Jessica and had a whirlwind affair with the British writer that led to a marriage that was ...

and I admit I slapped her very hard in the street.’ There was a violent scene which terminated with me lying in the street.’ ‘That manuscript meant so much to me and it was the thing that I prioritised saving. When confronted by reporters he was unrepentant, admitting he hit her hard in the face and didn't regret it. Arantes, in contrast, was reportedly on benefits and did not work for a number of years. Arantes is said to live a solitary life in Porto, the city where the former couple met more than 30 years ago when JK was 23.

Rowling addressed topics including her traumatic miscarriage, Harry Potter, and her controversial remarks on transgender issues.

“He knew what that manuscript meant to me, because at a point, he took the manuscript and hid it, and that was his hostage,” she said. “Just a few pages, so he wouldn’t realise anything was missing, and I would photocopy it. “He’s not a stupid person,” she said. Rowling told Phelps-Roper: “I was in a real period of flux at the time, my mother was very ill, I had moved from London to Manchester. I do not walk around my house thinking about my legacy, what a pompous way to live your life thinking about what my legacy will be. That kind of took a wrecking ball to my life, really. I was certainly not in a balanced state of mind.” And then my mother died, actually on the night of 30 December 1990. She’d been ill for a very long time, but none of us realised that death was imminent. And then I lost the baby,” she recalled. And then, became pregnant almost immediately after we were married, which is a joyful thing because I cannot imagine a world without my Jessica. It was traumatic physically and traumatic emotionally, and that was another massive loss.

JK Rowling claims she was forced to smuggle her first Harry Potter manuscript out of her home page by page to photocopy it at work as she was terrified her.

J.K. Rowling: “Tell me which genitals you have right now.”

Some of them defend the wizards and concoct all sorts of tortuous explanations for why the wizards didn’t stop the Holocaust. “Was it embarrassing when you used a pseudonym to see if people would like your work without the name J.K. Plus, I have a vagina, whereas a book has a penis.” Rowling: “I just want to say that there are thousands of my fans, potentially millions, who spend time online debating why the wizards didn’t stop the Holocaust. I am something of a human being, whereas a book is a stack of word paper. I already do that, and it doesn’t help.” Rowling: “And what, take all this hate out on my house staff? We can continue, but you’re going to have to ask more respectable questions.” Rowling: “Well, I never—look, if you’re going to spew hateful rhetoric at me, we’re going to terminate this interview right here and now. You’ll keep hearing from me for the next 350 years, at least.” I’m a middle-aged billionaire with access to the latest medical technologies. J.K.

J.K. Rowling "doesn't care" if her controversial comments impact her "legacy". The 'Harry Potter' author, 57, has been accused of transphobia for a series ...

The writer took issue with an online article’s mention of “people who menstruate” by tweeting: “‘People who menstruate’. However, in the trailer for the podcast, she insists her comments were “profoundly” misunderstood, and it was never her intention to "upset anyone". Woomud?”

JK Rowling discussed her life in a new podcast, where she claimed she snuck the manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone out of her house as ...

She said: "There came a night where he became very angry with me and I cracked and I said ‘I want to leave’. There was a violent scene which terminated with me lying in the street. "Just a few pages, so he wouldn’t realise anything was missing, and I would photocopy it. It was a horrible state of tension to live in." Recalling her marriage, she said: "The marriage had turned very violent and very controlling. It’s not true I hit her."

Megan Phelps-Roper is a writer, host, and producer with The Free Press. Born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, Megan left a life of religious extremism ...

That was the thing that actually I prioritized saving. When I realized that I was definitely going to go, this was it. I think this may be the first time we have heard how close we came to loosing Harry Potter at this formative stage. The only thing I prioritized beyond that obviously was my daughter. And when I lost the baby, I do remember having a moment in my grief for the baby. And I don’t think I’m a very good actor. I don’t think there is very much revealed that was completely new, but this is the first time that I have heard Rowling speak in her own voice, and at such length about this time. And I think at that point, I really was in a very… And then I lost the baby. The Podcast is set to run for seven episodes and the first two were released yesterday. Born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, Megan left a life of religious extremism in 2012. Rowling](https://www.thefp.com/witchtrials)” it is billed as “an audio documentary that examines some of the most contentious conflicts of our time through the life and career of the world’s most successful author.” The host is a remarkable lady called Megan Phelps-Roper, an ex-member of the [Westboro Baptist Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church).

JK Rowling has denied intending to “upset anyone” with her views on transgender rights. The Harry Potter author was attacked by some activists when she ...

“I care about now. She has repeatedly denied being transphobic. Best-selling author JK Rowling has said that she never wanted to upset anyone with her views.

J.K. Rowling has insisted she isn't bothered that her transphobia row will ruin her legacy because she will be "dead".

Rowling has continued to make anti-transgender comments and promote stories on her Twitter account that discredit trans-inclusive advocacy.

[appears to include](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/entertainment/harry-potter-legacy-trans-character-cec/index.html) the first out trans character in the series, though that detail has not been explicitly confirmed.) Even as controversy swirls around some of Rowling's remarks, the game [broke pre-sale records](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/tech/hogwarts-legacy-video-game-record/index.html). She also [derided](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313?s=20) an opinion piece that used the phrase "people who menstruate," a term inclusive of trans people who have periods but may not be women. The second episode of "The Witch Trials of J.K. [plotline](https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120299781/jk-rowling-new-book-the-ink-black-heart) that appeared to mirror her own life, in which a creative was criticized for making transphobic comments and other offensive statements. Rowling" simply ends with the voices of her critics decrying her anti-trans comments. Ahead of the podcast's release, host Phelps-Roper told [The Times of London](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-i-made-a-podcast-with-jk-rowling-in-her-scottish-castle-klfvxz2h7) that the series was not meant to "vindicate" Rowling. [per](https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/) the Williams Institute, UCLA Law's LGBTQ policy think tank. (A different tribunal [ruled in Forstater's favor](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/06/maya-forstater-was-discriminated-against-over-gender-critical-beliefs-tribunal-rules) in 2022.) [make anti-transgender comments](https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/13/jk-rowling-casts-transphobic-tweets-again) and promote stories on her Twitter account that discredit trans-inclusive advocacy. She also said that in the book "The Silkworm," written under pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Rowling used an "insulting trope" to describe a character who was a trans woman, depicting her as aggressive and emphasizing her anatomy. Over the course of the episode, Rowling told Phelps-Roper that she'd had a miscarriage shortly before she married her first husband. Her words have disappointed legions of "Harry Potter" fans and even the stars who brought Rowling's books to life.

Kate Brooks began a fundraising campaign after the tragic road death of her son Robbie Melvin, 10, outside their home near Dunkeld.

“But every day I went to the graveyard and every day I went past where he was killed outside the house. “We have made the facility freely available for use by the Royal School of Dunkeld every morning and Live Active have been brilliant at introducing the children to the facility.” It began and ended from the site of the new Muga next to the existing tennis courts in Birnam. “People did what they could and it meant a lot to me that so many people did so much to help.” “It’s wonderful that the money is being used for a Muga pitch,” Kate said, “I had to be occupied all the time and I wanted to do something worthwhile so I threw myself into it for the next six months.” The Royal School of Dunkeld pupil was cycling to a friend’s house when he was involved in a collision with a car. “Every night after school he would go to a sporting club so it is fitting that it is a Muga pitch.” She lived in Strathtay and Aberfeldy before moving to Dalguise, near Dunkeld, in 1994 – the year before Robbie was born. In this article Kate relives the horrific aftermath of Robbie’s death and explains why she felt had to move from the area. The new Muga in Birnam, off the A9, was financed by a £20,000 grant from the Robbie fund and £10,000 from Dunkeld and Birnam District Leisure Group. “It is lovely to see it now,” she said.

Ms Rowling went on to find fame and fortune with the Harry Potter franchise after divorcing Mr Arantes. But who is Jorge Arantes and what has JK Rowling now ...

Mr Arantes was a journalist in Portugal and has worked as a television reporter. That was the thing that I prioritised for saving. “At this point, he’s searching my handbag every time I come home,” she said. Mr Arantes told the Sun in 2020 he was “not sorry” for slapping her but added, “there was not sustained abuse”. But I didn’t abuse her.” They had a daughter, Jessica, in 1993.

JK Rowling claims she was forced to smuggle her first Harry Potter manuscript out of her home page by page to photocopy it at work as she was terrified her.

There was a violent scene which terminated with me lying in the street.” “That manuscript meant so much to me and it was the thing that I prioritised saving. Telling how she started taking her manuscript out of the house after she decided to walk out on Jorge, the author said: “When I realised I was definitely going to go I would take a few pages of the manuscript into work every day, just a few pages so he wouldn’t realise anything was missing, and I would photocopy it.

Hosted by former Westboro Baptist Church member-cum-political activist Megan Phelps-Roper, the podcast sees Rowling reflect on her experience in an abusive and ...

The Harry Potter author, who has said her former husband was physically abusive, shared details in a new podcast series, "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling."

Rowling has argued in favor of spaces exclusively for women who were assigned female at birth, and criticized the idea that there is “no material difference” between those women and trans women — a position some have labeled exclusionary and discriminatory. “I would take a few pages of the manuscript into work every day — just a few pages so he wouldn’t realize anything was missing — and I would photocopy it. “However, I was not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal,” she continued. I care about the living.” she’s not going to grow up and watch this happening to her mother, she’s not going to grow up and think that this is normal or okay.” Rowling’s critics include some of the actors who have portrayed her characters over the years. The first Harry Potter book was published in 1997. He claimed “there was not sustained abuse.” While Rowling did not name Arantes in the podcast, she previously said her first marriage with her daughter’s father was violent. Rowling began to make plans to go to her sister’s home in Scotland. And yet, she continued to write, building on an idea for Harry Potter that she first had while on a Rowling says she decided to leave her marriage for good after the birth of her daughter, Jessica, in 1993. She described a sense of isolation and lack of control during their marriage.

The 'Harry Potter' author, 57, has been accused of transphobia for a series of comments but has now insisted she isn't bothered that her legacy will be ...

Hosted by former Westboro Baptist Church member-cum-political activist Megan Phelps-Roper, the podcast sees Rowling reflect on her experience in an abusive and ...

The joke is actually on The Onion, because it's trans activists who are obsessed with pronouns and how people 'identify'; I'm sure Rowling belongs to the mass ...

It was therefore very little to be remarked upon if Dr Sheila Herthey should be found from time to time, as on the present lunchtime in Queen Square, in the company of Mr Milton Djugashivili. “What,” came then from on high the awful words, “is this to me? And,” was added with a withering finality, “I never did bear the cant.” Whatever the provenance of Dr Herthey’s patronage, the good Doctor in person tended to strike those having the fortune of her acquaintance as being in some under-defined way North American, such an impression being due to, besides her accent – which bobbed about in the eddies and swells of the mid-Atlantic, – a certain proclivity for self-assertion, which the good Doctor sublimated with sterling and assiduous service on a number of bien pensant committees; the accumulation of which positions having had the consequence of her becoming, to her confessed bafflement, if not exactly a fixture then at any rate a not infrequent presence at the Fish Suppers Where All The Decisions Are Made. Neither is true of Rowling or most gender-critical women, who offer a reasoned critique of the claims of trans activists. It’s a familiar reversal, attributing excessive power to women who actually don’t have much, and it’s traceable all the way back to Juvenal’s The Woke seem to be Puritans redux. It’s not the first time that satire has been used to excuse misogynist attacks, as the suffragettes discovered to their cost. It would take a brave author or producer to laugh at a group of people who have acquired a sort of secular sainthood. It’s much easier and safer to take aim at women who oppose gender ideology, pretending that sarcasm and ageism are a species of wit. (“Why are you such a huge fucking hateful dork?”) The whole thing could have been written by a 14-year-old with mummy issues who thinks it’s clever to throw around words like ‘penis’ and ‘vagina’. The interview opens with Rowling, or at least the website’s imagined version of her, demanding to know “which genitals you have right now”.

Perpetual victim J.K. Rowling is back to using her vast wealth and power to silence any and all negative press about her because of course she is.

No one is saying she should be harassed or anything of that sort, but no one should have the power to shut down criticism just because they don’t like it. If Rowling has the right to go around spewing lies and bigoted takes about the trans community that lead to real people being harmed, then people like India Willoughby and I should have the right to call her out on her bullshit. In the U.S. Rowling](https://www.themarysue.com/tag/j-k-rowling/) is back at it again—it being using her vast wealth and power to silence any and all negative press about her in the U.K. The suits are incredibly petty and frivolous, but their main goal is to shut down any dissent against someone in power. Rowling is not above the law or criticism, whether she likes it or not. British courts heavily favor public figures, as Jenny Afia, a lawyer in London who has represented people making libel and privacy claims, going forward, as Willoughby correctly pointed out in her follow up tweet. You can file a SLAPP suit in both the U.S. Libel laws in the U.K. Welles](https://www.themarysue.com/j-k-rowling-appears-to-sic-lawyers-on-queer-critic/), who posted on Twitter that Rowling “absolutely has views that align with Nazis.” And, because Rowling is a super mature person who totally doesn’t get butthurt when people call her out on when she cozies up to literal Nazis, she responded with a tweet saying, “Okey dokey, JJ, we’ll play it your way. But, because people can put two and two together, it seemed very clear that Rowling had abused the legal system to silence someone’s criticism.

Now is the time for prominent leaders and institutions to push back against the gender revolution.

Rowling has the courage to stand for the truth and to call for the protection of children and women, then so should we. Yes, it is always easier to apologize for the past than do the right, and costly, thing in the present. The moment to use the platforms we have to protect women and children has come. This is why it is surely now time that the flagship evangelical organizations speak out too, using their broad appeal and status to have a real impact on the debate. Yet, for all of the evil that is being done to confused children and vulnerable women, it is some feminists who are speaking out on this. The time for evangelical leaders and institutions to speak is now. It would be wonderful if Christianity Today were to run a series of detransition narratives, or Wheaton College host a conference on the damage that trans ideology is doing to children and to families. They care only about using the trans issue to drive their own careers by imposing their own irrationalism on the rest of us, whatever the cost in innocent lives. Two reasons: first, transgender ideology is leading to the promotion of medical practices that mutilate the bodies and permanently ruin the lives of children too young to elect to have a tattoo. The stakes are very, very high, and, as the case of Nicola Sturgeon demonstrates, the political leadership class is wickedly committed to the most incoherent and evil of policy paths. Kathleen Stock, the feminist philosopher, remains one of the most consistent and vocal opponents of the trans madness, even at the cost of her academic job. Given that both the political and the medical establishment are fully on board with this madness, we might say that we are living at a moment when the institutionalized abuse of women and children is not just grotesque.