As someone who had an extremely traumatic experience in the UK (and I know that some of you remembered it, following on from posting on another thread), I can and do understand why people might ask the people closest to them to sign an NDA or similar.
At the time of this thing happening, it was reported in the news. I didn’t listen to any of it or read any papers. I suppose because I was in shock and it took some years for me to get back on my feet, emotionally, psychologically and mentally. The perpetrator came after me and my family and years of harassment ensued, at a time when harassment was defined as a course of conduct and because this person knew exactly how long to leave us alone for, every new incident couldn’t be added to the previous police reports. I ended up leaving the country.
My biggest fear, throughout all this, was that someone close to or even in my wider family would accidentally say something to the wrong person and things would literally blow up. Because of this fear, I alienated a lot of my family and friends, not because I didn’t wholeheartedly trust them but because if they said something to someone, even unwittingly, I was frightened of the knock-on effect. It could even have been in response to someone asking how I was. That’s how paranoid I was.
And I’m not famous, or a celebrity or anything else. So yes, I can see that someone who may feel that they are in a delicate situation might well ask those closest to them to sign NDA’s.