‘My boss took advantage of me’ – Monica Lewinsky Finally Breaks Silence On Clinton Affair
Category: Relationship News
Saying that “it’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue
dress,” Monica Lewinsky is writing for the first time about her affair
with Bill Clinton.
“I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President
Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What.
Happened,” says the now 40-year-old Lewinsky in the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair.
Lewinsky maintains the relationship in the 1990s was one between two consenting adults.
“Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on
this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the
aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful
position,” Lewinsky writes.
While a White House intern in 1995, Lewinsky began a sexual relationship
with Clinton. The ensuing political scandal and investigation resulted
in the Democratic President’s impeachment by the Republican-led House.
The Senate acquitted him of the charges.
Lewinsky has stayed virtually silent about the affair the past decade.
She writes in Vanity Fair that “the buzz in some circles has been that
the Clintons must have paid me off; why else would I have refrained from
speaking out? I can assure you that nothing could be further from the
truth.”
But she adds that it’s time to stop “tiptoeing around my past — and
other people’s futures. I am determined to have a different ending to my
story. I’ve decided, finally, to stick my head above the parapet so
that I can take back my narrative and give a purpose to my past. (What
this will cost me, I will soon find out.)”
Lewinsky was constantly in the media during and shortly after the controversy.
She sold a line of handbags in 1999 and the next year she appeared in
commercials for diet company Jenny Craig. In 2002, she appeared in an
HBO special on the affair, and the next year she hosted a reality dating
program.
Lewinsky changed course in 2005, moving to Britain to obtain a masters
degree in social psychology at the London School of Economics. She’s
stayed out of the spotlight since.
In the Vanity Fair article, Lewinsky responds to reports made public in
February that Hillary Clinton, in correspondence with close friend Diane
Blair during the 1990s, had characterized Lewinsky as a “narcissistic
loony toon. of Bill Clinton
Lewinsky writes that her first thought was: “If that’s the worst thing she said, I should be so lucky.”
She continued, “Mrs. Clinton, I read, had supposedly confided to Blair
that, in part, she blamed herself for her husband’s affair (by being
emotionally neglectful) and seemed to forgive him. Although she regarded
Bill as having engaged in ‘gross inappropriate behavior,’ the affair
was, nonetheless, ‘consensual (was not a power relationship).’”
Blair’s personal writings gave insight into the former first lady’s
views on the Lewinsky scandal, as well as a host of other issues. The
papers were donated by Blair’s family to the University of Arkansas.
Asked about those conversations between Hillary Clinton and Blair,
Lewinsky writes: “Yes, I get it. Hillary Clinton wanted it on record
that she was lashing out at her husband’s mistress. She may have faulted
her husband for being inappropriate, but I find her impulse to blame
the Woman-not only me, but herself-troubling.”
And she rejects the “narcissistic loony toon” label, saying that she
refused to cooperate with interrogators offering the then-24 year old
immunity from the threat of jail time in return for wearing a wire to
monitor staged conversations with two of Clinton’s confidantes.”
“Courageous or foolish, maybe,” Lewinsky writes, “but narcissistic and loony?”
The full article will appear in the June issue of Vanity Fair, which
will be available in New York and Los Angeles and on the iPhone, iPad,
Nook, and Kindle – on May 8. The magazine will hit national newsstands
on May 13.
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