Harry Potter star Emma Watson has said she will still “cherish” her previous relationship with JK Rowling, despite their more recent rift over transgender rights.

The actor had previously attacked the author for the latter’s gender critical beliefs, responding to Rowling’s essay about the need for single-sex spaces due to the threat of violence against women, by tweeting: “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.”

Rowling has since responded by saying that she would “never forgive” either Watson or co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint for having “ cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights ”.

Speaking to Jay Shetty on his podcast earlier in the we

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