Good OmensAuthor Neil Gaiman Accused of Alleged Sexual Abuse By Multiple Women, Responds 'I Don't Accept There Was Any Abuse'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Gaiman has since addressed the claims, writing ina lengthy statementposted on his website on Tuesday, Jan. 14 that he watched the news of the allegations on Jan. 13 “with horror and dismay.”

“As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there are moments I half-recognize and moments I don’t, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen,” he wrote. “I’m far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever … At the time I was in those relationships, they seemed positive and happy on both sides.”

He also denied “there was any abuse” and wrote that he is “prepared to take responsibility for any missteps I made. I’m not willing to turn my back on the truth, and I can’t accept being described as someone I am not, and cannot and will not admit to doing things I didn’t do.”

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer.Dave Benett/WireImage

She alsoposted to her Instagram account, adding, “As there are ongoing custody and divorce proceedings, I am not able to offer public comment. Please understand that I am first and foremost a parent. I ask for privacy at this time.”

Neil Gaiman in Jan. 2024.Phillip Faraone/Getty

Phillip Faraone/Getty

A woman, identified as Caroline on the show, toldVulturethat she and her husband, Phillip, lived and worked as caretakers at Gaiman and Palmer’s home in Woodstock, N.Y. After Phillip moved out, Caroline and Gaiman started a physical relationship, and occasionally had phone sex.Caroline recalled that one evening, she fell asleep reading to Gaiman’s son, then 4, in Gaiman and Palmer’s bed. When the author returned home, he allegedly got into the bed with his son still in it, reached over him and placed Caroline’s hand on Gaiman’s penis.“He didn’t have boundaries,” Caroline recalled. “I remember thinking that there was something really wrong with him.“Multiple other women spoke withVulturefor the cover story, including Katherine Kendall, who met Gaiman in 2012 when she was 22, and alleged that Gaiman attempted to have sex with her on his tour bus (Gaiman gave Kendall $60,000 afterward, for her to begin therapy and “make up for the damage”). Kendra Stout, who met Gaiman at a book signing when she was 18, alleged that the author raped her in 2007.

Neil Gaiman in Aug. 2022.Jeff Spicer/Getty

Jeff Spicer/Getty

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual abuse, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.

source: people.com