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.
I’m confused by this part because it sounds like you’re conflating her conversion and her anti-fan fic phase and so I thought you were saying she converted to Christianity due to manipulation and mental illness. I used to be an evangelical Christian and from I understood when I read about it is that she was genuinely interested until she got tired of the hypocrisy. She is quoted saying she didn’t realize the lengths the church would go to prevent same-sex marriage. I don’t think she was coerced into anything but you can correct me.
Yeah, my bad I can see how it seems that way. I do think she may have delved into Christianity and found comfort in it, but the more aggressive aspects towards others were mostly due to publishers and mental illness. It just seemed to me that she entered her christian era and anti fanfic around the same time, but I could be wrong.
She’s often included christian elements in her works, such as Memmoch the Devil. She even wrote a series on Jesus Christ called Christ the Lord. I know she did distance herself from the church because her son was gay and for the reason you said.
Thanks for clarifying. I had no idea about the anti fanfic stuff. I’ll probably spend a night going down that rabbit hole.