Harry Potter author sat down for a rare, candid interview with Megan Phelps-Roper for the new podcast series The Witch Trials of J.K.
Rowling. Episodes 1 and 2 are available to listen to now, with Rowling reflecting on her life and career. Later in the series, Rowling will discuss the accusations of transphobia that have been leveled at her in recent years.Podcast host Phelps-Roper is best known as a political activist who was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, but left in 2012 and has since become an outspoken critic of the Christian church.
She sent a letter to Rowling, who invited her to her Scotland home, where they sat down for an interview."I never set out to upset anyone.
However, I was not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal," Rowling begins as she's introduced in the first few minutes of The Witch Trials of J.K.