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.
Mary Shelley. Wrote Frankenstein at only 19. Lost her husband a few years later and lived a pretty tragic life all in all.
Yeah I think about this a lot! Her mother died after giving birth to her, and she had tons of complications in childbirth as well. All of her children died except one, her half sister killed herself, she had terrible depression. Her husband Percy Shelley was famously unfaithful, but she stayed with him. He eventually drowned in a boating accident. By that time she was only 24 and it sounds like she never recovered from it.
And now, there are people who argue that she didn’t actually write Frankenstein.
And the fact that people STILL claim she wasn’t smart enough to write Frankenstein and that it was her husbands work. Ughh.