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.
The main complaint I hear about Eye of Argon is its rampant thesaurus abuse. If people are complaining about its characters, they clearly don’t know the state of fantasy novels in that era.