JK Rowling's ex-husband 'held first Harry Potter manuscript hostage' to try stop her leaving him
JK Rowling has revealed her abusive ex-husband hid the manuscript for the first Harry Potter novel in a bid to stop her from leaving him. The author said Portuguese TV reporter Jorge Arantes kept the pages of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone like a "hostage" and she feared he would burn them.
"It was a horrible state of tension to live in because I had to act as though I wasn't going and I don't think I'm a very good actor. That's a terrible way to live and yet the manuscript kept growing, I had continued to write. "The only thing I prioritised beyond that was my daughter but at that point she was still inside me so she is as safe as she can be in that situation." Rowling spoke about her first marriage to Megan Phelps-Roper, host of The Witch Trials of JK Rowling podcast, which examines the backlash to the Edinburgh-based author's views on gender identity.
The author said she had fiercely protected her privacy after becoming famous because of her fears of being tracked down by Arantes. She revealed he had followed her to Edinburgh and broken into the first home she bought with money from her publishing deal for her debut Potter novel, which was published in 1997.
"I was living in a state of real tension I couldn't express to many people." Arantes has previously admitted he had been violent towards her on the night she left.
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