Marie Antoinette

There's a very public scandal at the company where I work. I had nothing to do with it—it was all senior leadership—but I'm being dragged through social media because I appeared in a company video last year. People are tagging me in angry posts. I even got a text from a local news reporter asking to talk about it. My LinkedIn is being flooded. I've had to make my Instagram private because strangers were harassing me. I want to defend myself publicly, but my lawyer says no way, anything I say could hurt my story if there are lawsuits. I feel like staying silent makes me look guilty, but speaking up could make things worse. And it's so stressful, I'm not sleeping well. How do I maintain my dignity when public perception is completely divorced from reality?

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