This entire scandal already reminded me Eric Massa's abrupt resignation in 2010. Hill's state of mind as described in this story sounds a lot like his account:
Five days ago, on the morning of March 5, 2010, Eric Massa called me and told me he had tried to kill himself. Tried twice, in fact. He said it happened while he was driving alone from Washington, D. C., to Corning, a disgraced congressman returning home to his district for good, and two times during the haul, he said, he had to pull over to keep from... well.
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I had met Massa four years ago when I wrote about the financial hardship that running for Congress causes someone who has no wealth.
Lack of independent means seems to have been a factor for Hill as well.
Massa was way less sympathetic though. Hill behaved inappropriately with her staffer but the way she was treated by her ex-husband and the media was way worse and made her more the victim than the victimizer.
Massa was just a straight up sexual predator.
I completely forgot that Massa even existed up until this point. We sure have been through a lot this decade.
