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.
That will never happen simply because wherever there is any amount of public controversy, some idiot will use that to get out the death threats he really wants to send someone, anyone.
But I also think you’re giving much more grace to her here. She lives in a mansion, she’s a billionaire, she could hire round-the-clock security. But the policies she is advocating are actively being used (for example, in the US) to strip away the rights of trans people and continue to commit violence on them. Trans people HAVE DIED because of JK Rowling’s actions and words.
Where is the grace for those real threats that trans people receive and have to live with? Most of whom can’t hide in a huge mansion and can’t hire round-the-clock security?
Also, JKR sees the very existence of trans people as a threat nowadays, so there is no way she will ever stop feeling threatened. Because she is not as different from a QAnon tinfoil hat as you want to believe. A trans woman can’t even exist online without JKR denigrating her humanity and calling her a rapist. Those are not beliefs grounded in facts. Those are conspiracy theories.
Which ones, specifically?