and sometime in her 40s, she developed a heroin addiction...
And there’s a lot more in the article. You lose more and more compassion as you read it.
The one thing that one could feel compassion about is that though she came from wealth, it sounds like she was abused in some way.
She seems to have suffered living with dysfunctional people. However, the fact that her mother and sister sided with the x hubby regarding custody of the child says a lot.