Your intuition is directly at odds with how professionals in PR-focused industries—notably politics—tend to act. If you’re prone to getting smeared, clamming up and giving them no handholds is absolutely the best strategy. “We know nothing about his personal life—what does he have to hide?” is a weak attack(not least because people still respect the idea of privacy), comments about you being “not up to the job” interspersed with pics of you barfing on the carpet is a much stronger attack.
Your intuition is directly at odds with how professionals in PR-focused industries—notably politics—tend to act. If you’re prone to getting smeared, clamming up and giving them no handholds is absolutely the best strategy. “We know nothing about his personal life—what does he have to hide?” is a weak attack(not least because people still respect the idea of privacy), comments about you being “not up to the job” interspersed with pics of you barfing on the carpet is a much stronger attack.