This might sound odd, maybe I can properly explain it if I try, but do you remember and currently witness all of the supporters who liken their situations with divorce to Alice’s? The ones who provide her with anecdotes about their own failed marriages and hungry kids? (Alice’s children are not “hungry,” but you know what I’m saying.)
Some of those individuals have stated that they didn’t even know who Alice was until this acrimonious separation hit the media, so their investment in her affairs aren’t the strongest, yet they still support her. And we’ve been curious about that at times. Why so many support her anyway. I think some of the GFM donations and some of the overall support Alice receives in this matter isn’t just about Alice.
I think it sometimes transcends Alice, for certain people—it reminds them of their own grief with their own tumultuous losses. Sure, there’s plenty of support for Alice herself, but there’s often a personal reminder that these supporters feel about their own broken-down marriages, and the empathy they feel from that is what encourages them to donate, not necessarily Alice the celebrity. (Put “celebrity” in quotations, please.)
For those who don’t know of them well, I don’t think it always has so much to do with Alice and Ioan as it does with themselves—they just don’t wanna see yet another “deadbeat husband” and “deadbeat father” get away with “abusing” another “devoted wife,” like what they experienced. It could be Alice and Ioan as the subjects of this divorce…or it could have been anyone else. Some of these supporters don’t care who it is—they just see themselves and their own grief once again and want to fight to reverse it for another person. Which is a form of empathy, like I said, but that’s still weird and sad, as they’re wasting it on an abuser.
I just think it’s interesting.