Over time most FC's will experience having to remove people. It can be fairly benign, such as incompatibilities with the theme or RP style or it can just be down to drama. It's really nothing unusual either that people who were removed with drama to follow will try to flame and spread rumors as others have mentioned. My personal experience, with both rumors about a person and rumors about a free company, is that the good stuff you do will outweigh the bad - and at the end of the day, if people buy into the rumorstream, then they're probably people who you don't want to collect that many of anyways. It's easy to get obsessed over what people think of you/your fc, and having people around you who are keen on never interacting with anyone they've heard a bad rumor about is just going to make things worse. So, even though it's hard, try to shrug it off ^^
