Alice Sebold, Author of Lovely Bones and Lucky, Apologizes to Anthony Broadwater for False Rape

Alice Sebold, bestselling author with popular memoir, Lucky, surrounding her 1981 rape outside Syracuse University, on Tuesday apologized to the man she accused in that case, saying she was “deeply remorseful.”[ted]”What he’s been through.

The man Sebold accused of raping her, Anthony Broadwater, was exonerated last week after a judge ruled that the prosecution was deeply flawed. Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after Sebold identified him as her attacker, and has struggled to get jobs and maintain relationships in the two decades since his release.

Sebold remained silent throughout Broadwater’s pardon. In her statement on Tuesday, she said it took her eight days since his convictions were overturned to “understand how this can happen.”

“I will continue to struggle with the role I unwittingly played in a system that puts an innocent man in jail,” she wrote in a blog post. Average post. “I will also grapple with the fact that my rapist, most likely, is never known, may have gone on to rape other women, and will most certainly never go to jail in time. as Mr. Broadwater did.”

Speaking directly to Broadwater, she added: “I’m sorry above all else that the life you could have lived was unjustly taken and I know that no apology can ever change those. What happened to you can never be changed.”