Before you seek to re-enter public life, surely you must make a clean breast of these matters.
From the guardian.co.uk
While the government continues to be under pressure to make a clean breast of the Shin Bet scandal, the public is ambivalent.
From the time.com
We can hardly take seriously the government's claim to be the most transparent ever if reckless Eric won't make a clean breast of things.
From the guardian.co.uk
It finally took an inability of the crooked financier to meet his obligations in a faltering economy to convince him to make a clean breast of his years of stealing.
From the washingtontimes.com
The agency has noted the contrast between Iran's continuing deviousness and the openness and thoroughness with which Libya has started to make a clean breast of its nuclear bomb-seeking past.