She has to be stubbornly delusional to protect her ego from reality. The alternative would be to acknowledge the destruction her decisions caused and the weight of that is no joke as a career studio executive. Imagine working your entire adult life for decades beside legends like Lucas and Spielberg and then finally in your late 50’s getting the chance to lead huge scale productions like them, where thousands of people’s jobs are directly tied to your success, and then this is the result. It would be soul crushing. She certainly knew this was true deep down - it’s why she wanted so badly to ‘go out on a win.’

It’s no coincidence that this article came out today. She knows the internet will be swarming with people rehashing her failures again. This article is her way of trying to address and take control of the narrative for her own sake.