I don’t have much of an opinion about how I feel about Kat as a person, as I don’t think there’s enough public info to say who she really is at the core. So I hesitate to say she outright deserves the life she’s in at this point. Maybe she is a piece of shit, idk. But it would be sad to have known her before she met Phil as a friend of hers and check in to see what her life’s become.
In the same boat - there's a part of me that feels bad for Khat and what she had to endure as a kid, BUT she's also an adult and she chose NOT to get her issues handled through professional help. Again, that was her choice. Even the courts tried to intervene and she went "Fine, I'll do it myself." and admitted herself voluntarily. What I do think is that Khat did what any person would do in her situation would do: there's a door to a better life? I'm going to take it, not realizing she was being mislead by "The Twitch guy".
Like I mentioned before, Khat has some MAJOR emotional and mental issues that only YEARS of therapy can fix and Khat had NO business dealing with Subaru man or "The Twitch guy", but again, it goes back to the being an adult and making that choice of doing better or staying the same. That's her right as an adult to make that choice.
Phil went back to the bag of tricks that worked for Leanna. Also, Leanna was having home issues when she was in Allentown and she wanted out of PA. Any woman around Phil's age at that time knew that Phil was a loser and a weirdo and wouldn't give him the time or day, but a 17 year old? Yeah! Flash a bit of money, your own place, and the promise of a ticket out of their situation they hate? Where do they sign up? Not realizing it was all a fugazi. Thankfully, Panda was told *Snort* "You have to get a job.", Panda got exposed to the real world, made friends, realized the truth about Phil, left and is now engaged to Chad.
However, Phil learned from Panda: fatten her up, gaslight her broken mind, and hold all the cards to where she has NOWHERE else to go by isolating her from her support system and if she wants to work, it has to be some menial job to where she can't support herself all the way financially. Khat was just another woman that was looking for a way out of Michigan and if some trick wanted to fly her out, make all of her dreams come true of going to Japan, etc...why not? Not realizing it was all smoke and mirrors.
Again, that was her choice. It's also her choice to stay with Phil.