JK Rowling recently claimed that her ex-husband hid the manuscript of her first novel, Harry Potter, in order to stop her from leaving him. But on the other hand, her former husband accused the novelist of being “delirious” and denied all the claims made by her. Moreover, he even professed that he helped his wife write the novel.
During a podcast, the multi-millionaire author gave a statement that his former husband was abusive in nature, and he was so controlling that she was obliged to keep a photocopy of the novel when she was at work as she feared that he would either burn the pages of her novel or keep them as a hostage. The reason for such behaviour was their broken marriage. He did all this in order to stop her from breaking the marriage.
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JK’s relationship with Jorge
JK Rowling was married to Jorge from 1992 to 1995. She met Jorge at a bar while she was teaching in his native Portugal. In a personal essay that was published in 2020, JK detailed their relationship. Soon after it was published, her ex-husband admitted that he slapped her but was not consistently abusive, and he is not sorry.
JK opened up about how she left her husband. She told that one night things turned ugly, and that was the moment when she became adamant about leaving that person.
Today, JK is married to doctor Neil Murray. She has been married to him since 2001, and they have a son, David, who is 19 years old, and an 18-year-old daughter, Mackenzie.
Jorge Arantes responded to JK Rowling’s accusations. He confessed that he was an abusive husband. He slapped his wife during the course of their catastrophic marriage, though he denied the claims made by his former wife. He blatantly said that he never took the book; rather, he helped his wife write it.
On Monday, February 27, 2023, Jorge told Mail Online that he is not sure why his ex-wife is claiming such things, maybe she is delirious from the past three years since the COVID lockdown. Further, he added, “I was startled when I read about this. I do not agree with this as this doesn’t make any sense to me, I don’t understand the purpose of me doing any such thing; maybe you should take her statement on this?”
Moreover, Jorge claimed that while JK Rowling was writing her novel, he too participated in that, he said “she read it out for me, and I did the same for her.”
Jorge appreciated JK Rowling’s work, He said he liked her first book, it was fantastic. It was written wonderfully. Moreover, he said that he always liked such a genre, and they both had a common interest in literature. Jorge recalled that the project for the novel was seven books, and he made his contribution to the first one. He mentioned that the author is cognizant of this, and she started writing the novel when they were together.
JK Rowling’s statement on her relationship
On a podcast called “The Witch Trials of JK Rowling,” JK Rowling disclosed her turbulent marriage with her ex-husband Jorge. She said that his former husband knew what that manuscript meant to her, and that’s why he hid it, claiming it to be his hostage. She shared how she managed to take her manuscript out of the house when she was sure to leave her husband.
She said that the moment she realized that she would now walk out of this toxic relationship, she saw the necessity to protect her work. She used to take a few pages of the manuscript to work so that her husband wouldn’t doubt her and she could photocopy it. Gradually, she somehow managed to preserve her work in photocopied form, as she doubted that her husband might burn it. She said that she just prioritised two things in her life: first, her daughter, and second, this manuscript.