OVER 27 years after the raunchy affair between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was leaked, the ex-intern has a fresh and fiery message for her former boss.
Lewinsky, who is now 51, opened up about the “collateral damage” that affected women nationwide in a sit-down interview with Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper.
The White HouseIt has been 27 years since Bill Clinton and then 22-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky’s affair was leaked[/caption] Instagram/ Call Her DaddyIn an incoming episode of Call Her Daddy, Lewinsky went on a fiery tirade about how the tryst ripped away her future[/caption] Instagram/ Call Her DaddyPodcaster Alex Cooper asked Lewinsky about the power dynamics in the White House[/caption]She described the decades of pain that she suffered after being “painted as a stalker, mentally unstable, not attractive enough,” a teaser for the episode revealed.
“Because of the power dynamics and the power differential, I never should have f*****g been in that position,” Lewinsky said in a burning comment.
The young hopeful was just 22 years old when she got the job in the Oval Office and started a raunchy affair with then-49-year-old Clinton.
They hooked up for two years until Matt Drudge broke the story of their tryst on his website, the Drudge Report in January 1998, sparking an urgent federal investigation.
After the scandal emerged, Clinton uttered the now infamous line, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” in a White House press conference.
“There is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship, or any other kind of improper relationship,” he said as his wife Hillary stood by his side.
As Clinton spread lies to the public, Americans turned their hatred toward Lewinsky. Now, she’s revealed the nationwide repercussions of being crucified in the public eye.
“There was so much collateral damage for women of my generation,” Lewinsky told Cooper.
The author and activist explained how she feels young professionals were discouraged from shooting for the stars after seeing her be “torn apart” for her sexuality and “mistakes.”
Nearly a decade after the dust settled and Clinton was ultimately impeached over their relationship, Lewinsky began to recognize the true harm of being the president’s mistress.
She had spent most of her years following the White House stint trying to sell handbags and signing brand deals to earn money paying off legal bills.
“That was the point when I realized everything had been taken from me,” she said.
“I lost my future.”
GettyLewinsky now says she was far too young to have had the Oval Office position[/caption]LEWINSKY’S FUTURE
In recent years, Lewinsky has emerged as an anti-bullying activist and is working to raise awareness of how much online hate can affect mental health.
In 2015, she gave a Ted Talk where she said, “Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide.
“I was patient zero of losing a reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.”
In 2021, she worked as a producer on the show American Crime Story: Impeachment, which dramatized her and Clinton’s affair.
She encouraged the showrunners to include all the most explicit details of their tryst, including Clinton inserting a cigar into her vagina.
In the Hulu documentary Hillary, Clinton opened up about the mistakes he made in the White House, though he’s never publicly apologized to Lewinsky.
He said, “Everybody’s life has pressures and disappointments, terrors, fears of whatever.
“Things I did to manage my anxieties for years. I’m a different, totally different person than I was, a lot of that stuff 20 years ago.
“Maybe it’s just getting older but I hope it was also going through a lot of this.
“But whatever, what I did was bad but it wasn’t like – how can I think about the most stupid thing I could and do it.
“It’s not a defense, it’s an explanation. I feel awful.”
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