Decades after she was embroiled in a scandal involving the former President Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky has finally been welcomed into the arms of Hollywood.
Lewinsky Goes Hollywood
Last week, Lewinsky attended George Clooney’s star-studded Broadway premiere of Good Night, and Good Luck in New York City. There, she was seen rocking a strapless, asymmetrical black gown that had ruffle detailing at the bottom.
Indeed, several A-listers attended this Broadway premiere. These stars included Hugh Jackman, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Lopez, Cindy Crawford, and Julianna Margulies.
And then there was Monica.
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Lewinsky Is ‘An Anti-Bullying Social Activist’
Lewinsky first reemerged back in 2017, when she began writing for Vanity Fair. The outlet describes her as being “an anti-bullying social activist” and a “global public speaker.” She’s also a “producer with her company, Alt Ending Productions.”
In January of this year, Lewinsky launched her own podcast, “Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky.”
“Every week, I’ll draw from my own unique experiences (like say, surviving a global scandal at 24 years old), and delve into the personal and often messy ways people find their way back to themselves,” the podcast’s synopsis states.
Lewinsky was infamously a 22 year-old White House intern when she engaged in an affair with Clinton between 1995 and 1997, and this ultimately led to his impeachment on December 19, 1998. While appearing on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast back in February, Lewinsky opened up about how she thought the media should have covered her scandal in the 1990s.
“I think that the right way to handle a situation like that would have been to probably say it was nobody’s business and to resign, or to find a way of staying in office that was not lying and not throwing a young person who is just starting out in the world under the bus,” Lewinsky said.
Lewinsky went on to talk about how her scandal impacted women everywhere.
“I think there was so much collateral damage for women of my generation to watch a young woman be pilloried on a world stage, to be torn apart for my sexuality, for my mistakes, for my everything,” Lewinsky said.
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Lewinsky ‘Was Enamored’ By Clinton
Back in 2021, Lewinsky told People Magazine that had found the courage to examine what occurred “between the most powerful man in the world and an unpaid intern less than half his age.”
“For me, at 22, there was this combination of the awe of being at the White House, the awe of the presidency and the awe of this man who had an amazing energy and charisma was paying attention to me,” she explained at the time. “I was enamored with him, like many others. He had a charisma to him, and it was a lethal charm, and I was intoxicated.”
“I think there are a lot of people who might find themselves in these situations,” she continued. “It might be a professor or a boss, your immediate supervisor at your job. We think we’re on his terra firma in our early 20s, and yet we’re really on this quicksand. [You think], I’m an adult now. It didn’t matter that I couldn’t get a rental car without a parental signature.”
Lewinsky has certainly been through the wringer over the past few decades. It will definitely be interesting to see where her Hollywood career goes from here!
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