Tautus.

It was a while back in October 2023 when Scarlett Pavlovich first contacted me.

When I reached out to you, the fear that this maybe was a one-off kind of, was a one-off event,

you just never know, right?

Scarlett had filed a police report in New Zealand, alleging that Neil Gaiman had assaulted

her, but felt that New Zealand's police were dragging their heels.

So when she got in touch, it was in part because she felt she had nowhere else to go.

And, you know, I stepped over those guardrails and I walked down that trail and believed

in you and believed in Paul and believed in Tortoise. With poor Caruana Galicia, then a reporter

at Tortoise now at the Financial Times, we spent months investigating Scarlett's allegations.

Scarlett's account was of degrading, violent and rough sex that she says she never consented to.

Her story was complicated and nuanced and she knew that.

As time went on, we learnt just how complicated it was.

The interesting thing is, last night, Scarlett shared her WhatsApp history with Neil,

so chats, videos, photos.

And the really unusual thing for a reporter is it allows us to see the same issue from very different angles.

The messages are really hard for me to go through because of, you know, my delusion.

You know, I'm so furious with myself.

She shared with us a long trail of affectionate and flirtatious messages between her and

Neil Gaiman that appeared to verify his side of the story that any sexual contact he had with

Scarlett or any of the other women who spoke to us was consensual.

Across the series, we heard the accounts of four more women, Kendra, Julia, Claire, and Caroline.

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