You made my point. By flaking out, people will say he validates all of the dreadful (and untrue) things being said about, and done to, him. I was/am one of his biggest champions. Drawing this negative attention to himself can only hurt him and I feel so sorry for him.
He’d have been smart to go into counseling (libs love that s**t) and humbly stayed off the grid for a while. Really, the fact that he’s survived so many months in a living hell is miraculous. It can’t have been easy; I couldn’t have gone through what he did.
May you experience the same thing then get back to us on how it affects you.