JK Rowling’s new book is about a woman who gets murdered after getting online threats

“I had written the book before certain things happened to me online,” she explained to Graham Norton.

“I said to my husband, ‘I think everyone is going to see this as a response to what happened to me,’ but it genuinely wasn’t.

"The first draft of the book was finished at the point certain things happened.”

Hmmm, this sounds awfully familiar.

Thebillionaireauthor attracted similar backlash when she fired off a series of tweets that were quickly deemed problematic.

In June of 2020, she wrote: "If sex isn't real, there's nosame-sexattraction. If sex isn't real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives.

"It isn't hate to speak the truth. The idea that women like me, who've been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they're vulnerable in the same way as women-i.e., to male violence-'hate' trans people because they think sex is real and has livedconsequences-isa nonsense."

He wrote in part: “Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo [Rowling] or I.”

In the same interview with Graham Norton, the Irishtalk-showhost asked Rowling if she still was in touch with anyHarry Potteractors despite severalcast matescondemning her comments.

She replied: “Yes, I do. I mean some more than others, but that was always the case. Some I knew better than others.”

However, she remained verytight-lippedon which actors she still speaks to.

We’re guessing we won’t see Radcliffe at her upcoming book launch.