One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has broken down in an emotionally-charged television interview after the resignation of one of her right-hand men over a boozy strip club romp.

Senate candidate Steve Dickson resigned on Monday night after Nine’s A Current Affair program screened covert footage of him groping dancers and making lewd and sexist comments at a Washington DC strip club.

Senator Hanson said voters deserved better and Mr Dickson’s language and behaviour had failed to live up to her expectations.

On Tuesday night, she appeared on A Current Affair, crying and said her party had been attacked in ways others had not.

She fought and sometimes failed to maintain her composure, railing against men in her party she said had let her down “dreadfully” in the past 20 years.

“I’ve had Fraser Anning, I’ve had Brian Burston, I’ve had a whole list of them, David Oldfield, you name them,” she said. “Where are they now? Where are they?”

She said she was sick of constantly being kicked in the guts as she tried to serve the people of Australia.

“I cop all this shit all the time and I’m sick of it.”

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has admitted she has been “absolutely devastated” by the recent scandals. #9ACA https://t.co/TbGXBHVUF3

— A Current Affair (@ACurrentAffair9) April 30, 2019

But the questions aren’t over for Senator Hanson, with the Dickson scandal followed quickly by another involving one of her lower house candidates in Queensland.

She’s yet to say what action she might take, if any, against Leichhardt candidate Ross Macdonald, over media reports about salacious images and sexist comments allegedly posted on his Facebook page.

The posts, revealed in News Corp reports, show him posing with with a topless woman, groping another’s breast, and bizarre digitally altered photos of nude women in sexually provocative poses.

One Nation co-founder David Oldfield, who is about to publish a book to “explain” Senator Hanson’s personality, has rejected claims her problems lie with the men she’s surrounded herself with.

“She needs somebody else to blame on every single thing that ever takes place. But she’s the constant in all of it,” he told the Seven network.

He said her “stellar” performance on A Current Affair would probably improve her vote at the federal election.

And while critics were likely to see it as an act, he said she wasn ‘t crying crocodile tears.

“What drives Pauline is Pauline, and what Pauline wants,” Mr Oldfield said.

“All of that last night was absolutely genuine … That is Pauline reacting to what she sees as her world coming undone.”

“The fact is it will bring support to her. It will solidify the people who are already with her, and she’ll go forward and she’ll keep going.”

AAP has sought comment from Mr Macdonald, and One Nation.

-AAP