This is a conversation I have with my mother a lot and I'm sorry if I diverge a little from the subject because I read the comments and I might have been influenced by that. Also, sorry for any grammar mistakes, I'm a foreigner.
As I was growing up my mother always made sure to remind me of two things almost constantly:
To respect every person, no matter what color, status, nationality, etc. She would always tell me that the same respect I had for her, my school principal, police officers or even the local celebrities, I had to have with any other person, so the homeless, the maid, the local market people, etc.
We never know for sure someone else, especially a celebrity. A singer, a actor, a dancer can be a very good person on the public eye, but they are human just as anyone else, this mean that they have flaws, they are just as imperfect as anyone who is not appearing in television or staring a movie.
This made me grow up with the sense that celebrities are people more known, overall, but still just regular people. Yes, they do live a whole different kind of life. Yes, they have a lot of money. Yes, a lot of people know their names. But they are just regular people who happened to choose a path in life that gave them more notoriety.
For some reason I feel like people don't have a realistic view of famous people, it's almost like they are suddenly turned into a perfect and untouchable human being when they get more relevance. That causes a lot of things, from ignoring odd behaviors they show, to the sudden anger when everyone discover some wrongdoings.
I normally don't even know actors by name and even the ones I do know by name, I don't see more than just a person who has chosen to act for a living. But for a lot of people they are way more than just that and I think that it's basically what get people so fixated about a story like this.
Then there are people who will argue: I didn't even knew who he was before this story broke out.
The point, for me, it's that we have far worse stories happening every day and people definitely don't keep such a close eye on them. And even for the ones who does, you will definitely not see them saying things as such "oh, I would do the same thing that person did if a famous person like him approach me" on the same phrase where they saying they would never act like that with a "regular" person.
We as a society learn to respect this or that person, not the whole. And to basically ignore a lot of things and red flags from famous people, because they are famous. And by the end of it, they are not the ones wrong in this situation. It's the people who refuse to look at them as normal folks that are.
Also, it's way more easier to look and point fingers at someone else who did something wrong instead of looking at yourself. By obsessively fighting for justice about a situation you're not part of, you are basically ignoring all of the bad things you had done with the excuse of 'bringing justice' or 'cancelling a bad person who should not be allowed to do this or that'. I genuinely find that sad, because by the end of the day, no one should give themselves the power to correct someone else. That's why there are laws.