If a person in leadership has their private life exposed (fairly or unfairly), does that affect their leadership role? This has not been a controversial questi

If a person in leadership has their private life exposed (fairly or unfairly), does that affect their leadership role? This has not been a controversial question in the modern nation state for nearing about 200 years now in "the West" until several small but very vocal groups have implicitly been taking a pick-axe to what I see as a pretty basic truth: the difference between corrective action in the public vs. the private sphere is a restriction on the public side to objectively measured action. Private thought in general doesn't hold water until violation of actual behavior can first be proven, and only then is intent needed.