Chloe had serious psychiatric problems and constantly pushed away both friends and family who tried to help her. While the things she did were both personally and morally abhorrent, she falls into a category of someone who was legitimately unwell and needed far more care and support than I think many realized, made more tragic by the fact that Chloe was never going to seek that herself. She was someone who got used, repeatedly, by various power groups tied to the rat king, and it fed into her own victimization and paranoia in the worst possible way.
While there's a ton of things she absolutely deserved to get flak over, and a ton of shit she did that deserved ridicule, most Kiwis here acknowledge that her problems were far beyond the scope of most cows. Many cows are fun to laugh at, but Chloe was usually more tragic than amusing. By this time last year, Sagal had burned almost every bridge I'm aware of. Even people who legitimately cared about her got pushed aside and/or abandoned by her for slights both real and imagined. For a long time, she's been utterly and completely alone, solely through her own actions, and ultimately, there was no way out of that. Hell, there's an argument whether or not she had any ability to get out of that by that point.
What's really fucking aggravating about this is that while Chloe was many things, she was one of the few Rat King cows we covered who could actually get shit done when she wanted to. She was a legitimately skilled game designer and if she had managed to vanquish her personal demons better, she'd likely have had a very bright career in that regard. The rub, of course, is that Chloe never had any intention to try.
If this turns out to be legitimate, Kiwis, let Chloe Sagal's lesson to the world be this: Victimhood can devastate the capabilities of even the most competent and intelligent person, but victimhood paired with psychological illness can completely destroy lives. In Chloe's case it became a horrifying self-fulfilling prophecy, destroying her relationships, undermining her career, and leaving her vulnerable to being manipulated by shitheads.
