JK Rowling hits back at Stephen Fry after he claims she’s been ‘radicalised’
JK Rowling says it is a ‘mistake’ to assume her and Stephen Fry were ever friends. (Getty)
JK Rowling says it is a 'mistake' to assume her and Stephen Fry were ever friends. (Getty)
Author JK Rowling has hit back after Stephen Fry said he believed she was a “lost cause” who may have been “radicalised by TERFs”.
Wilde star Fry had criticised the creator of Harry Potter during a recording of The Show People podcast last week, saying: “I disagree profoundly with her on [trans issues],” he said.
“I am angry she does not disavow some of the more revolting and truly horrible, violently destructive things that people say. She does not attack those at all.”
Responding through a comment made by Good Law Project director Jo Maugham, who had praised Fry’s recent comments, Rowling wrote on X/Twitter: “It is a great mistake to assume that everyone who claims to have been a friend of mine was ever considered a friend by me.”
Fry, who was knighted in the New Years Honours list, has been criticised himself for failing to condemn Rowling’s views in the past, despite admitting his trans friends had been left “deeply upset” by her comments.
Rowling has previously said that Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, who have publicly expressed support with the trans community, were “not safe” from her condemnation, claiming they had “cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights”.
