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.
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.