There is a real-world trope where one releases an overwrought apology in supplication thinking it will work, or tries to endlessly litigate it out of an offensive strategy to supplant narrative.
You can be put in impossible situations, including by yourself. There's nothing that you can say or explain in the end which will possibly matter at that point.
And the hardest thing to do, is just sit there and take it and say nothing.
Ostracism is a lynchpin hack humans are coded to recoil from. Denunciation fucking works.
It's going to hurt. It is going to feel like the world is falling apart and falling through your fingers. Like it's the end.
And then you move on. When the hurricane subsides and somehow you are dry.