"I was afraid of them leaving a negative review so I didn’t pursue my extra costs because they were denying everything and we all know airbnb doesn’t always reimburse. Anyways, they left a 1 star review -"
This almost never works, according to thousands of posts on this forum. Bad guests almost always leave bad reviews, regardless of whether the host shies away from charging them for damages, or running around trying to accommodate entitled demands during their stay. If you host with the attitude of being afraid of a bad review, rather than dealing with bad guests appropriately, you will not come out ahead.
And further to what Andrew explained, hosts' responses to guest reviews appear on the host's review page, not the guest's, so it makes little sense to leave a response that reads more like a review- it isn't a warning to other hosts looking at a guest's reviews to decide whether to accept their booking. Instead it is read by future guests when deciding whether to book with you.
The place to talk about a guest's behavior is in the review you leave for them, not the response to their review. It's enough to say in the response "This is a retaliation review resulting from this guest being asked to pay for damages. (Or whatever the case may be) Please refer to our other reviews for accurate representations of our listing".