The once celebrated author of the Young Adult novel 13 Reasons Why, which became a popular Netflix series, is now telling his side of the story after allegations of sexual misconduct, which he maintains are baseless, shut his career down as #MeToo peaked, and, as he claims, the movement was weaponized by his scorned lovers for revenge. In an article for The Free Press, the Bari Weiss-founded news outlet recently purchased by Paramount Skydance, novelist and reporter Kat Rosenfield shares Jay Asher’s perspective on what led to him being kicked out of his life as a married father with a wildly successful YA career, a Netflix deal, and shunned from the publishing world, divorced and earning just a hair above the national poverty level. The article, titled “How #MeToo Destroyed the Author of ‘13 Reasons Why,’” paints Asher as the victim of a vindictive campaign involving anonymous accusations from several women with whom he’d had affairs and organized by a single former lover hellbent on destroying his life and reputation. Asher and Rosenfield state and …