This isn’t an issue of nutting up or showing strength. That’s quite a peculiar way of framing this.
On the contrary, this shows reprehensible weakness. She leaked to the press something he supposedly said in a private conversation, which he denies in an attempt to paint him as sexist. And this happened a year ago and she said nothing about it until now. And he’s supposed to be her friend. This is what us Americans might refer to as “bytchassness.” No one respects this. Don’t believe me, wait til the next polls come out.