Earlier this 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 come back to haunt Clinton once again decades after their infamous White House affair.
Lewinsky Gets Emotional
Lewinsky, 52, broke down in tears on Wednesday as she discussed the brutal aftermath of her affair with Clinton, 79. This came as Lewinsky spoke at a screening of Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. She executive produced this series alongside Amanda Knox herself.
Knox was wrongfully convicted of murdering her roommate in Italy back in 2007. Her trial became an international media sensation at the time. Needless to say, being the target of that kind of scrutiny is an experience that Lewinsky knows all too well herself.
“When we started this project, it was a time when we were beginning to revisit some young women’s narratives from the past through a more modern lens,” Lewinsky told the audience at the Vidiots Theater in Los Angeles.
“I myself had had that experience,” she continued. “And so it’s to show yet again what happens when young women are thrust onto the world stage and feasted on by the media.”
That’s when Lewinsky began to get visibly emotional.
“And I think some of what really moved me in the finale was… showing the aftermath. Because it’s very hard for people to understand that this happens, not just to a person, but to a family,” Lewinsky said through tears.
“And the consequences can be very far reaching,” she added. “As hard as the trauma can be to survive, surviving the aftermath is sometimes harder.”
Lewinsky was then so emotional that she could no longer speak. Knox reached over to comfort her as Lewinsky managed to stammer a brief “sorry.” The audience was quick to support her. Indeed, they erupted into cheers for Lewinsky as she spent the next minute wiping tears from her eyes.
Check out the emotional moment for yourself here.
Lewinsky Was In Love With Clinton
This comes months after Lewinsky admitted that she was in love with Clinton when they had their affair back in 1998. At the time, she was a 22 years-old intern, while he was the 49 year-old president of the United States.
“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 Says Clinton Should’ve Resigned
Back in February, 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.
As for Clinton himself, he has done everything he can to put the Lewinsky affair behind him. Indeed, in the post-#MeToo world, his conduct with Lewinsky looks more despicable than ever. That’s why it’s bad news for him whenever Lewinsky is back in the public eye telling her side of the story.
We applaud Lewinsky for having the courage to speak out against Clinton. After the havoc that their affair wreaked on her life, she deserves to finally be getting the love and support from the public that she’s been cruelly denied for decades.
Here’s hoping Lewinsky continues to be a thorn in Clinton’s side for many years to come. You made your bed, Bill, now lie in it!