I don't understand why- if it's a longterm issue- the actors can't just announce a temporary leave of absence instead of just disappearing or creating gossip about their hit or miss attendance. Murphy went on to open up about how the Weisslers kept her from doing exactly this. Her vocal issues got that bad because she kept going on without fully healing, which of course only made the situation worse, especially after Reidel took it upon himself to tarnish her reputation.
I think the backlash for Patina will be inevitable if she wins, Hathaway is certainly experiencing it now the way Renee Zellweger (whose career hasn't recovered) and Nicole Kidman (who took almost ten years to regain her status) had to experience. For some reason we love starlets on the way up but cannot wait to take them down as soon as they reach exactly the kind of success everyone wanted for them.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"