Call me cynical, but how convenient.
It may well be true, it's even slightly possible that it is but I've seen this sort of thing a number of times before, ie someone does something that pisses off a lot of people very quickly and then a family member posts saying that they're ill.
In an extreme case, a brother posted that the forum member had been killed in a car accident. A few months later the original member reappeared from the dead with some equally implausable explanation as to why his 'brother' had lied in the first place.
Although relatively new to RWG, I've been around internet forums and communities for enough years and have enough experience to read this and immediately think 'yeah, right'.
If I'm wrong, I'll be first in the queue to apologise. I suspect I'm just typing what a lot of people are thinking though.