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.
Iirc her religious phase was a reaction to Hurricane Katrina. She had a “come to Jesus” sort of conversion bc back then lots of preachers were saying the hurricane was punishment for New Orleans wickedness (like Poseidon’s rage but Christian) and then she sort of got over it and went back to writing about vampires and incestual witches.
She couldn’t reconcile being a devout Catholic with her son’s gayness, so she left the Church again. At the end of her life, she had Last Rites, according to Raymond Arroyo, who was a good friend of hers.