A beloved youngsters’s creator introduced she helps JK Rowling and criticized the backlash towards her in an interview.

Judy Blume, creator of ‘Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret’, shared her affinity for the Harry Potter creator in an interview with The Sunday Occasions. The highly-decorated creator advised The Sunday Occasions she additionally confronted public backlash over her books’ method to sexuality and puberty. (RELATED: ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Breaks Gross sales File For Warner Bros. Video games Regardless of JK Rowling Backlash)

Blume mentioned that she has “love” for Rowling, and she or he is “behind her 100 per cent as I watch from afar.”

The creator additionally mentioned that Rowling is a sufferer of social media mob mentality.

“You’d most likely know higher than me, and I’m not up on each phrase that’s been mentioned. Nevertheless it can be mentioned that [Rowling’s] a sufferer of Twitter, as a result of folks consider what they learn on Twitter, no matter you really mentioned,” Blume mentioned to The Sunday Occasions.

“..Provided that Blume has confronted repeated assaults for the reason that Eighties …she is aware of what it’s wish to be pilloried as an creator.” https://t.co/0S0FYqCvCH

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Rowling has confronted sturdy criticism over her views on transgender points. Rowling has spoken out towards insurance policies that she perceives negatively have an effect on ladies for the sake of constructing transgender folks really feel comfy.

This isn’t the primary time that Blume has spoken up on behalf of a controversial creator. In March, Blume criticized the choice to edit elements of Roald Dahl‘s beloved youngsters’s books.

“Youngsters nonetheless love the books, they usually love them the way in which he wrote them. So I don’t consider in that,” she mentioned in keeping with Selection.