As a third party, what's your opinion on this? Who is in the wrong?

A tenant is being sued by a prior landlord. The landlord damaged personal property, admitted fault, but refused to take care of it. After months of trying to resolve it with the landlord, the tenant was told in writing that the landlord did not like her and was given the option to move out within 60 days/halfway through the lease and have the deposit returned or to shut up and fulfill the lease. After long and hard consideration, the tenant felt her safety was in jeopardy since the landlord indicated his dislike for her and had keys to the property; she felt moving out was the best choice. Currently, the tenant is in pursuit of suing them for the damaged property, and they are coming back with claims of failing to fulfill contract/lease, unsatified tenant, and failure to honor negotiated settlement (no other doents were never signed other than an acknowledgement of the walk thru). The deposit was fully returned and cashed.