In June of last year, we reported that the former White House intern Monica Lewinsky had reemerged to slam the former President Bill Clinton as she launched her new podcast Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky.
Now, Lewinsky has reemerged once again to launch another attack on Clinton.
Lewinsky Torches Clinton
In a new interview with The Times, Lewinsky opened up about the fallout from her infamous affair with Clinton during his presidency. She lamented that “the public humiliation was excruciating; life was almost unbearable.”
Lewinsky believes that Clinton “escaped” from the controversy far better than she did. This clearly still bothers her to this day.
“I haven’t spoken to him in almost 30 years and I don’t know what his internal landscape is,” said Lewinsky, 52. “I think he escaped a lot more than I did.”
Clinton was 49 years-old at the time of the affair, while Lewinsky was only 22. She insists that while their relationship was consensual, “this was a gross abuse of power. Full stop.”
“That doesn’t mean I didn’t make mistakes, that I didn’t make wrong choices, that my behavior didn’t hurt other people,” Lewinsky stated. “But at the heart of it was a gross abuse of power.”
Lewinsky Was In Love With Clinton
In June of last year, Lewinsky admitted that she was in love with Clinton during their affair.
“It was 22 to 24-year-old young woman’s love,” Lewinsky explained whole appearing on Elizabeth Day’s podcast How To Fail. “I think there was some limerence there and all sorts of other things, but that’s how I saw it then. I think it was also an abuse of power.”
Lewinsky went on to blast Clinton and his administration for portraying her as a “bimbo.” She feels this characterization was unfair, as she’d scored a competitive White House internship right out of college.
“My very first job out of college was working in the White House,” she pointed out. “I don’t think that that’s the kind of trajectory that someone thinks then 10, 12 years later, that person’s not going to be able to get hired.”
“Then I worked in the Pentagon as well and travelled the world with my boss, who is the Pentagon spokesman, and we travelled with the Secretary of Defense,” Lewinsly continued. “I’m by no means a genius, by no means going to be the cream of the crop but I wasn’t a bimbo. I wasn’t a dumb bimbo. So I was portrayed to be, and that was a big struggle for me to deal with that.”
“And you were often portrayed as that by other women,” Day asked in response.
“Often by other women,” Lewinsky said in agreement. “But I think that that was a narrative that was crafted and put out by the White House so I think that mantle was picked up by a lot of women.”
Lewinsky Believes Clinton Should Have Resigned
In February of 2025, Lewinsky ripped into Clinton for having an affair with her in the first place.
“Because of the power dynamics, and the power differential, I never should’ve been in that position,” she said on the Call Her Daddy podcast
Lewinsky went so far as to say that Clinton should have resigned over their affair.
“I think the right way to handle a situation like that would have been to probably say it was nobody’s business and to resign,” she stated. “Or, to find a way of staying in office that was not lying and not throwing a young person that was just starting out in the world under the bus.”
Watch Lewinsky talk more about this in the video below.
Clinton Responds
As for Clinton, he’s tried to avoid discussing his affair with Lewinsky publicly over the years.
“I dealt with it 20 years ago, plus,” Clinton said in a 2018 interview with the TODAY show. “And the American people, two-thirds of them stayed with me. And I’ve tried to do a good job since then, and with my life and with my work. That’s all I have to say.”
In the post-#MeToo world, Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky looks worse than ever. That’s why he likely won’t be happy that she’s reemerging to attack him once again. Only time will tell if Lewinsky continues to be a thorn in Clinton’s side in the future!