Prolific fantasy author Neil Gaiman, whose graphic novels have inspired TV adaptations such as Starz’s American Gods and Prime Video’s Good Omens, has broken his silence against allegations of alleged sexual misconduct made against him the last few years. The allegations saw several of his TV projects either canceled, or ditched before beginning production.

Gaiman posted a statement in a series of posts on his Instagram post. View the post below.

 

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Within the five posts on his account, @neilhimself, Gaiman firstly states how, “It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything anywhere, but I didn’t want to let any more time go by without thanking everyone for all your kind messages of support over the last year and a half.”

He then states how he’s “learned firsthand how effective a smear campaign can be,” before stating that, “The allegations against me are completely and simply untrue. There are emails, text messages and video evidence that flatly contradict them.” He then attests that the allegations — “especially the really salacious ones” — were spread by people more interested in “outrage and getting clicks on headlines than whether things had actually happened or not.” He reaffirms that they did not.

Gaiman continues that the one thing that’s kept him going “through all this madness is the conviction that the truth would, eventually, come out.” He then states how he expected journalism to be his line of defense when the allegations were first made, but was surprised that “the reporting was simply an echo chamber, and how the actual evidence was dismissed or ignored.”

Mentioning his respect for journalists, as a former one himself, he thanks a writer under the name of TechnoPathology for their “meticulous fact and evidence-based investigative writing.” He claims to not know this person, but thanks them for “actually looking at the evidence and reporting what they found, which is not what anyone else had done.” He mentions a link to TechnoPathology’s work in his bio “If you are curious about what they’ve uncovered so far.” He also included the link in a tweet on X, where he posted the exact same statement.

Reporting referenced in my below statement: https://t.co/fLMOQfQolh pic.twitter.com/YHy25T2lKJ

— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) February 2, 2026

He reflects on how “strange, turbulent and occasionally nightmarish” the last year and a half has been. Taking his own advice of “when things get tough, make good art,” he announces he has returned to writing with “the biggest thing I’ve done since American Gods.”

He ends the statement “convinced there are more good people out there than the other kind” and thanks “son many of you for your belief in my innocence and your support of my work. It has meant the world to me. Neil”

The day-old post has received 29.8K likes on Instagram.

In July of 2024, allegations from two women were made public in a four-part podcast series from Tortoise Media. The two women accused Gaiman — who they both were in a consensual relationship with at the time — of sexual assault in 2003 and 2022, respectively. As the news of the allegations spread, Prime Video announced a pause in the production of Gaiman’s series Good Omens.

By September of that year, Gaiman announced he was stepping back from involvement with the third season of Good Omens. A month later it was announced that the third season would be reduced to a final, 90-minute episode.

In February of 2025, another alleged victim stepped forward with a civil lawsuit against Gaiman that also named his wife, music artist Amanda Palmer  (Who Killed Amanda Palmer, Elephant Elephant), in allegations of alleged rape and alleged trafficking. The plaintiff claimed she experienced this alleged misconduct while being employed as Gaiman and Palmer’s babysitter. Palmer issued her own statement after a NYC venue cancelled a show due to the allegations.

mxdwn reported that Netflix’s Sandman, which had Gaiman attached as an executive producer, ended with its second season in 2025. Showrunner Allan Heinberg (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal) affirmed that a two-season order was always the plan and the series’ cancellation had no relation to the allegations against Gaiman.