My idol turned out to be a horrible person. What now?

My idol turned out to be a horrible person. What now?

“Never meet your heroes,” a saying sometimes attributed to French novelist Marcel Proust, refers to the disappointment one feels upon discovering that a person whom they admire turns out to be unworthy of the pedestal they are placed on.  I did meet my hero and idol. And, in disregard to Mr. Proust’s warning, I found it to be a happy event at that time. What I did not know was that this same hero would later fall from grace in the worst way poss…