"My kitten was born with severely disabled legs, and she struggled. I did my best by her" is not a lie, but it is a bit of a weird way of putting it. It makes it sound like she had organised an adoption and then the kitten happened to be born disabled.
In reality: Jack tweeted "shall I adopt a disabled kitten?" We were all horrified here. There was even dissent among the Squiggles. She shot it down:
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To be clear: Jack, with no experience of disabled cats, crowdsourced advice on caring for a disabled kitten on Twitter, ignored all practical information, and did whatever the
duck she wanted.
FYI she was possibly going through some kind of mental breakdown at the time - "shall I adopt a kitten" starts in Thread 32, aka right after the infamous Thread 31, after a recent breakup, the Mayo Palace shitshow etc. She was not in the right headspace to take on a healthy animal at that time, let alone a sick one.