HARRY Potter author JK Rowling last night revealed she has been sexually assaulted and suffered domestic abuse. Rowling, 54, said she had never previously spoken about her ordeals to protect her daughter Jessica, 27, whose father is JK’s first husband, Portuguese TV reporter Jorge Arantes. But she claimed it helped explain her controversial tweets about transgender people, which were criticised by Potter star Daniel Radcliffe and Fantastic Beasts actor Eddie Redmayne. The author opened up about the emotional damage inflicted in a lengthy and emotional post, though she did not identify who had sexually assaulted her. Rowling spoke out after coming under fire for controversial comments about transgender people. She wrote: “I’ve been in the public eye now for over twenty years and have never talked publicly about being a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor.“This isn’t because I’m ashamed those things happened to me, but because they’re traumatic to revisit and remember. “I’m mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy, but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine, who’ve been slurred as bigots for having concerns around single-sex spaces.” Arantes has previously admitted being violent during his marriage… Read full this story
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