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 don’t necessarily disagree, but (at least in the trans community) she was already being outwardly hateful long before she posted her essay. She followed and retweeted self proclaimed neonazis, racists and anti-feminists whenever they shared criticisms and vague hatred towards trans communities.
The essay was for a lot of people the final step that cemented her stay in a hatred filled community, not the beginning of her decline into hatred fuelled posting.
She also used to receive death threats from those hateful right wing christians, because she wrote about magic and included a character vaguely to be hinted at that he was gay… Now she works with them because they agree on the anti-trans issues, THAT is when those death threats lessened: when she changed her public image.