I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.

My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.

  • SingingPear@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Perhaps you should all listen to the podcast The Witch Hunt of JK Rowling before you start cancelling another person without listening to them properly.

    • goldberry-fey@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Oh trust me, I have listened to everything she’s put out wanting to give her the benefit of the doubt and that is why I don’t support her anymore. She has made a total ass of herself, literally tweeted Merry TERFmas and comparing trans people to Death Eaters, her own wizard Nazi stand-ins. She can make all the excuses she wants but she just doubles down on being hateful and I’m done with her.

    • LupinThe8th@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      “Don’t judge her by her words and actions, let this kiss-ass PR piece podcast do it for you!”

      I have listened to her. That’s why I don’t like her, she’s a moron.

    • WebbedFingers@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I listened to this, excited to perhaps hear perspective from an old favourite author. It was incredibly biased, and there was only a brief section where two trans people talked, and J.K. Didn’t converse with them at all.

      Also, not that I’m not impressed by the leader of the podcast leaving a hateful cult she grew up in, but she is perhaps not the most unbiased person to have hosted this podcast.