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.
Damn that’s really shitty. I guarantee you that the majority of successful authors wrote a ton of really bad stuff when they were 16. In my experience it usually takes making a lot of bad things to learn how to make good things in any art form.
I’ve reread old stuff I wrote in highschool I thought was hotshit only to cringe.
Not giving people the chance to grow sucks.
The majority of successful authors write a ton of really bad stuff that ends up in Barnes & Noble.