diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3044b11695..1380bd9951 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org).
 - Formula Parser: Wrong line count for stuff like "MyOtherSheet!A:D" [#1215](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/issues/1215)
 - Call garbage collector after removing a column to prevent stale cached values
 - Trying to remove a column that doesn't exist deletes the latest column
+- Deal with VML-Comments containing an new-line written by Excel 2013
 - Keep big integer as integer instead of lossely casting to float [#874](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/pull/874)
 - Fix branch pruning handling of non boolean conditions [#1167](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/pull/1167)
 - Fix ODS Reader when no DC namespace are defined [#1182](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/pull/1182)
diff --git a/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Xlsx.php b/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Xlsx.php
index 4c10750524..386613194c 100644
--- a/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Xlsx.php
+++ b/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Xlsx.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Reader;
 
+use DOMDocument;
 use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Cell\Coordinate;
 use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Cell\Hyperlink;
 use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\NamedRange;
@@ -900,8 +901,9 @@ public function load($pFilename)
                                     $relPath = File::realpath(dirname("$dir/$fileWorksheet") . '/' . $relPath);
 
                                     try {
-                                        $vmlCommentsFile = simplexml_load_string(
-                                            $this->securityScanner->scan($this->getFromZipArchive($zip, $relPath)),
+                                        $secureXml = $this->securityScanner->scan($this->getFromZipArchive($zip, $relPath));
+                                        $vmlCommentsFile = $this->simplexml_load_string_of_html_too(
+                                            $secureXml,
                                             'SimpleXMLElement',
                                             Settings::getLibXmlLoaderOptions()
                                         );
@@ -2037,6 +2039,7 @@ private function getWorkbookBaseName(ZipArchive $zip)
                             $workbookBasename = $basename;
                         }
 
+
                         break;
                 }
             }
@@ -2044,4 +2047,55 @@ private function getWorkbookBaseName(ZipArchive $zip)
 
         return $workbookBasename;
     }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Tries to load a string as XML and HTML.
+     * @throws \Exception
+     */
+    protected function simplexml_load_string_of_html_too($string, $class_name = "SimpleXMLElement", $options = 0, $ns = "", $is_prefix = false) {
+
+        try {
+            $xml = $this->simplexml_load_string($string, $class_name, $options, $ns, $is_prefix);
+        } catch (\Exception $e) {
+            $dom = new DOMDocument;
+            $rc = $dom->loadHTML($string, $options);
+            if(false === $rc) {
+                throw $e;
+            }
+
+            $xml = simplexml_import_dom($dom, $class_name);
+        }
+
+        return $xml;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param $string
+     * @param $class_name
+     * @param $options
+     * @param $ns
+     * @param $is_prefix
+     * @return SimpleXMLElement
+     * @throws \Exception
+     */
+    protected function simplexml_load_string($string, $class_name, $options, $ns, $is_prefix): SimpleXMLElement
+    {
+        libxml_clear_errors();
+
+        $previous = libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
+        $xml = simplexml_load_string($string, $class_name, $options, $ns, $is_prefix);
+        libxml_use_internal_errors($previous);
+
+        if (false === $xml) {
+            $message = '';
+            foreach (libxml_get_errors() as $error) {
+                $trimmedMsg = trim($error->message);
+                $message .= "$trimmedMsg on line: $error->line, column: $error->column.\n";
+            }
+            libxml_clear_errors();
+            throw new \Exception($message);
+        }
+        return $xml;
+    }
 }