I’ve never been a fan of her writing—tried two of her books and bailed on both—but for some reason I occassionally find her interesting as an example of a person who lives in/on media attention.
This situation doesn’t surprise me. She made a big noise years ago protesting the choice of Tom Cruise to act in Interview with the Vampire, and then she changed her mind and praised him.
She lost her child to illness years ago, and that contributed to her loss of faith. Then she came back, and now here she is going back on a public pronouncement, again.
I think she’s a very confused person who’s suffered a tragedy no one would want to endure. I feel sorry for her.
As an atheist, I don’t care one way or another about her beliefs, but it’s odd how she stated this leaving Christianity—the positions she cites as being ones she can’t support aren’t brand-new or unknown.
I read some of her early books, before they started getting stupid and just a vehicle to show off her latest interests. Lestat was her favorite character across the novels. Even though Interview is about Luis, Lestat is still the center of the her vampire universe. She had a knee-jerk reaction to the overly-popular Cruise being chosen for the role, especially since she wanted Rutger Hauer (who is a much better actor than Cruise). She later realized Cruise actually did pull it off fairly well, at least wasn't the disaster everybody expected. But they were all out-acted by Kirsten Dunst who played Claudia, the child vampire.