JK Rowling’s vile ex-spouse promises he aided her generate Harry Potter and suggests she’s ‘delirious’

JK Rowling’s abusive previous partner has accused the novelist of currently being ‘delirious’ – after she claimed that he hid the unpublished manuscript of the to start with Harry Potter novel to end her leaving him.

In a sensational podcast, the multi-millionaire writer stated ‘controlling’ former Portuguese Tv set reporter Jorge Arantes saved the webpages of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone ‘hostage’ as their marriage broke down. 

Speaking on ‘The Witch Trials of JK Rowling’ she said she even feared he ‘would burn off the pages’ – and begun secretly photocopying them to secure them in case they were shed.

But disgraced Arantes, 54, who has admitted slapping his ex-spouse during their turbulent marriage, denied that he had even taken the e-book – and even made the incredible declare he aided create it.

In a bizarre rant from his dwelling in Portugal, he reported: ‘I really don’t know why she is saying what she is now, perhaps she is delirious from a few yrs of Covid lockdown.

Disgraced Arantes (pictured exterior his Porto home) has claimed he helped compose Harry Potter

Rowling married Arantes in 1992 right after assembly him in a bar in Portugal in which she experienced moved to work as a instructor pursuing her mother’s demise

‘I was stunned when I examine about this. I deny it. It isn’t going to make any feeling. Why would I do something like that? Perhaps you should really check with her.’

Seemingly seeking to just take the credit rating for Rowling’s wildly productive Harry Potter collection, he went on: ‘When she was creating the e-book, I was taking part in it, she was looking at it out to me, and I was reading through it to her.

‘The to start with ebook was fascinating the crafting was superb, and I usually appreciated it for the reason that we shared a enthusiasm for literature, and specifically literature for kids.

‘The venture was for seven publications, and I was quite involved with the initial just one and she appreciates that. She started writing it when we ended up with each other.’

Arantes and Rowling, 57, tied the knot in 1992, in the Portuguese metropolis of Porto, immediately after a whirlwind romance, subsequent a conference in a bar after she experienced moved there to teach English.

A marriage ceremony certification obtained by MailOnline, exhibits how the pair lived with Arantes mother Marilia Rodrigues – who died in 2020 aged 90 – in Porto.

Rowling moved to Portugal soon after her mother’s demise and the couple experienced a daughter, Jessica, now 29 but she left him just a yr later on just after he had dragged her out of the house and attacked her.

JK Rowling exposed her abusive ex-spouse hid the manuscript for the to start with Harry Potter novel in a bid to halt her from leaving him

Arantes explained he won’t deny that their relationship was marred by violence – and discovered that he has no marriage with his daughter.

On the podcast Rowling reported: ‘The marriage had turned very violent and pretty controlling. He was exploring my handbag each and every time I appear property.

‘I have not acquired a key to my possess entrance door because he is acquired to control the entrance door. And I feel he is not a silly man or woman. I consider he knew, or suspected, that I was heading to attempt and bolt all over again.’

Rowling described dwelling in ‘a horrible point out of tension’ with Arantes for the reason that she experienced to cover her motivation to go away him.

She went on: ‘And still the manuscript retained growing. I’d proceed to produce. In truth, he understood what that manuscript meant to me for the reason that at one particular point he took the manuscript and hid it and that was his hostage.’

Rowling described how she turned more and more established to depart, and she would secretly ‘take a couple of web pages of the manuscript into perform just about every day – just a handful of pages so that he would not realise just about anything was lacking – and photocopy it’.

She stated: ‘And progressively in a cabinet in the workers space, little bit by little bit, a photocopied manuscript grew and grew and grew, due to the fact I suspected that, if I was not in a position to get out with all the things, he would burn off it or consider it or hold it hostage.

‘That manuscript even now intended so much to me. That was the matter that I really prioritised for saving. The only matter I prioritised further than that, definitely, was my daughter, but at that stage she’s even now inside of me, so she’s as safe and sound as can be in that problem.’

Describing the night time she walked out on Arantes, Rowling reported: ‘There came a night where by he turned pretty angry with me and I cracked and I stated ‘I want to leave’.

‘He grew to become very violent and he said, ‘You can leave but you might be not acquiring Jessica, I am retaining her, I will disguise her’.

‘So I set up a fight and I compensated the price tag. There was a violent scene which terminated with me lying in the road.

‘I went to the law enforcement and filed a complaint and the next working day went back again to the household with the law enforcement and bought Jessica.’

The Witch Trials of JK Rowling is a 7-element podcast in discussion with the author, hosted by American activist and journalist Megan Phelps-Roper

JK Rowling, 57, opened up about her abusive previous husband through the explosive podcast 

Megan Phelps-Roper (pictured), host of The Witch Trials of JK Rowling podcast

She mentioned she experienced fiercely secured her privacy after turning into well-known due to the fact of her fears of currently being tracked down by Arantes.

Rowling uncovered he experienced adopted her to Edinburgh and broken into the to start with home she bought with income from her publishing offer for her debut Potter novel, which was posted in 1997.

She stated: ‘I was so unwell-equipped for what occurred to me. It was switching more rapidly than I could deal with and all the time I experienced this lurking fear since I know there is anyone out there who does not would like me well.

‘The reason we still left the initial place was my ex-spouse arrived and broke in. Transferring grew to become very a pressing challenge at that level.

‘I was making an attempt to reconcile quickly owning a ton of push curiosity with actually, seriously seeking to dwell beneath the radar for really concrete reasons.

‘I was living in a condition of genuine tension I couldn’t categorical to lots of people.’

A spokesman for Rowling said the novelist did not want to comment on her ex-husband’s most recent promises.