I'm not saying this the case, but maybe he simply wanted to meet with her. (If a pastor meets with one of his parishioners in his office on Wednesday, would you expect him to make that the subject of his sermon on Sunday?)
Since the disclosure of this apparently came from her side, perhaps that was the intent.
“I’m not saying this the case, but maybe he simply wanted to meet with her”
Important public figures don’t have lives like the you and me or the pastor. Whatever they do makes the news. He can’t just have a private audience and not expect it to make the news.