In the age of Me Too, no one is spared. If a few days ago we learned that the French filmmaker Benoit Jacquot is being investigated for the rape of two actresses (following accusations by one of them in February), today we woke up to the news that Neil Gaiman himself has been accused of sexual abuse by two women and is the subject of a police report in New Zealand in this regard. The author of ‘Sandman’ and ‘Good omens’ denies everythingbut we will have to see how these public denunciations end.
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The podcast has revealed it Tortoisewho explained that the two women, While having consensual relations with him, they had rough and degrading sex that was not always wanted and desired by them. And that is the key to the matter. The first of the women is Scarlett, 23, who says that in February 2022, while working as a nanny for her son, She was sexually assaulted within hours of arriving home from New Zealand in a bathroom.
There, the author, then 61, apparently began a three-week consensual sexual relationship with her in which Neil Gaiman had harsh, degrading and unwanted penetrative intercoursewhich are supported by messages, notes and statements from Scarlett’s friends. For his part, the author has stated that They just hugged and made out in that bathroomthat followingwards there was only penetration with fingers and that there was always consent.
The second woman, who calls herself K, began a romantic relationship with the author in 2005 when she was 20 and he was in his 40s, but claims she had rough and painful sex that “neither wanted nor enjoyed”. In fact, at one such moment Gaiman apparently penetrated her despite her request not to do so because she had a painful infection. The writer of ‘American Gods’ not only denies it, but also, feels disturbed by his statements.
Gaiman has defended himself by stating that K is motivated by regret regarding her relationship and Scarlett was suffering from a medical problem associated with false memories, but Nothing regarding this appears in your medical history. For the moment, doubts are hanging over someone whose career, until now, had been impeccable. We will have to see how it develops.
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