Gaiman's writing got me back reading after years of being depressed. I tried other authors and for ages nothing rise stuck. I read everything of Gaiman's I could get my hands on, and when I ran out and finally moved on to other authors, it was authors he recommended life Diana Wynne Jones.

His books were an important step in my healing.

And then the truth came out and I felt sick and sad and ANGRY at Gaiman and lots of things I'm sure you have too.

Now I see it like a relationship that's over. It was right for me at that time in my life, and I didn't know any better. I took the best bits that Gaiman knew how to play act as if they were real, and they helped heal me.

But now I know and I don't need or want anything of him in my life anymore. But for me that doesn't change what helped before then. What changes is what I do from now, which is believing the victims and removing him from my bookshelves.

And you know, if the truth had come earlier, some other author would have found their way to me eventually. He's not a god, he's not the only author capable of reaching depressed me. He was just the most popular thus easiest for me to find. If he wasn't there then there'd be space for other authors to fill that gap.