Why can't people just be normal

Just found out my favorite author from childhood, whose writing style I still draw heavy inspiration from to this day, is a predator!!! He was an elementary school teacher AND GROOMED A STUDENT FOR YEARS.

I've actually never had this happen to me before, where a beloved creator turned out to be an actual disgusting person, and now I suddenly relate to y'all having your hearts broken by the 842929th time by some popular artist. I'm glad I didn't have any sort of parasocial relationship with the author (just liked his writing) or I would actually go insane.

How do you guys deal with this? I'm literally halfway through one of his books right now, and the series was what got me into reading chaptered books again after YEARS of struggling with my attention span and only being able to read manga.