It may have to do with the child; but everything you wrote could equally apply to the effect of sudden national fame/notoriety and all the crap that went along with it.
(Even winning the lottery in a big way, has destroyed - or changed drastically the dynamics - of marriages and family relations.)
True.
Whenever I hear/read about large lottery winners I say a prayer for them and their families.
I tell my beloved I’d rather have a lot of folks win smaller amounts rather than larger-than-life amounts.