The Harry Potter author re-enforced this on Mother's Day, when she sent out a special message to anyone whose mum isn't around anymore.
It wasn't long before people were getting in touch with Rowling to share their own stories.
J.K. Rowling's own mother, Anne Rowling, had multiple sclerosis and passed away in 1990. Rowling set up the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic in 2010 — a research clinic that aims to find out more about neurological diseases like MS. Read more...