After a meteoric rise and fall from Marvel Comics, Satanic writer Donny Cates announced that he’d be returning to comics after a bizarre two-year hiatus.
Well, even fairly minor traumatic brain injuries can cause erratic changes in behavior that persist for years before you rewire and settle in, sometimes to a substantially different person than you were before. Speaking from experience. Given the guy was already in some kind of dark place, it wouldn't be surprising if he went to further than usual extremes of already bad ideas. So the car wreck, the divorce, the rumored bad behavior, all of these things can be part of the same story.
Well, even fairly minor traumatic brain injuries can cause erratic changes in behavior that persist for years before you rewire and settle in, sometimes to a substantially different person than you were before. Speaking from experience. Given the guy was already in some kind of dark place, it wouldn't be surprising if he went to further than usual extremes of already bad ideas. So the car wreck, the divorce, the rumored bad behavior, all of these things can be part of the same story.