"I have lost my friends. I've lost the love of my life. I was made out to be the face of all evil. And genuinely, that's really not the case"
He received 'hundreds and hundreds' of hate messages and has been dubbed 'Willy Wanker'
Despite claiming to only use AI for spell-checking the Wonka scripts, it's been uncovered that he published 16 AI-generated books last summer on Amazon
