Alice Sebold has apologized to Anthony Broadwater after he was wrongfully convicted of raping her in 1981. The Lovely Bones author, who wrote about her sexual assault in the book Lucky, issued a public statement to Medium on Tuesday, Nov. 30, a week after a New York State Supreme Court Justice exonerated the 61-year-old.

Alice Sebold, the author of bestselling book “The Lovely Bones” and memoir “ Lucky,” has apologized to Anthony Broadwater, the man she misidentified as her rapist 40 years ago. In a Medium post, she wrote, “First, I want to say that I am truly sorry to Anthony Broadwater and I deeply regret what you have been through.