You’re conflating something here. The statement only refers to “what is true”, not your situation; each pronoun refers only to “what is true”:
What is true is already true. Owning up to the truth doesn’t make the truth any worse.
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You’re conflating something here. The statement only refers to “what is true”, not your situation; each pronoun refers only to “what is true”: