Writer Julia Hobsbawm appeared in the fifth episode of the Tortoise podcast and shared allegations related to an encounter with Gaiman in 1986 when she was 22.
She claimed that after a party, he went back to Hobsbawm’s flat in London and assaulted her.
“One minute it seemed like he was telling me about Mary and his child, and the next minute he just sort of jumped on me,” she said, referring to his ex-wife.
“I remember he made an aggressive, unwanted pass at me out of the blue that I’ve never experienced before or since,” Hobsbawm added.
The podcast also included Gaiman’s response to the 1986 allegation: “He attempted a kiss, upon realizing he had misread the situation and that Julia was not receptive, he stopped the attempt. His position is it was no more than a young man misreading a situation.”