Jean-Claude offers her a gallic shrug, which could say anything or nothing at all. "That is something that you will have to ask them to tell you. I am afraid other peoples' opinions of myself, while I am aware of them, I am not nor will I ever be expert in."

It is not to say that whatever they might share will be entirely rumor or falsehood. Save that he would not choose to share such things about himself as the others seem to have focused in on.