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.
But it turns out that the aliens weren’t trying to destroy humanity. Humanity just thought that they were.
They’ve given up trying to destroy humanity after their second attempt, when they realized the humans were sentient.
The humans had no idea.