In December 2016, Galloway revealed that he had had an affair with a student, for which he apologized. Galloway stated that Justice Boyd had concluded in her report that the charge of sexual assault against him could not be substantiated and that Boyd had dismissed several other allegations of misconduct against him as well. The UBC Faculty Association verified the accuracy of Galloway’s statement. In 2018, UBC was forced to pay Galloway $167,000 for violating his privacy rights and damaging his reputation. On July 13, 2018, Galloway published an essay in the Toronto "National Post" asserting that he was "not a monster," despite what he felt had been a coordinated campaign to paint him as such, and revealed that the woman who had accused him of assault was the one with whom he had had the affair. Steenkamp told a local newspaper the same day, however, that the dismissal was "fully justified" and that the sexual allegations against Galloway were not the only issues the university had considered.