{"id":22211,"date":"2025-02-20T22:09:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22211"},"modified":"2025-02-20T22:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:09:48","slug":"monica-lewinsky-makes-heartbreaking-admission-about-bill-clinton-scandal-in-rare-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22211","title":{"rendered":"Monica Lewinsky makes heartbreaking admission about Bill Clinton scandal in rare confession"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was the affair scandal that shocked the world, and this week, Monica Lewinsky has made a series of tragic statements whilst looking back on her relationship with former US president Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Launching her very own self-fronted\u00a0podcast<\/a>, the White House intern-turned-activist reflected on that time of her\u00a0life<\/a>, claiming the decisions she made while\u00a0romantically involved<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Clinton<\/a>\u00a0have ceaselessly come back to bite her.<\/p>\n

Summarising the affair,\u00a0Lewinsky<\/a>, 51, began her debut episode by disclosing: “I fell in love with D.C. and the White House and the job and the environment, and then, very unfortunately, I fell in love with my\u00a0boss<\/a>\u00a0who was married and also the most powerful man in the world.<\/p>\n

“What followed was an inappropriate relationship that lasted for two years.”<\/p>\n

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Lewinsky was just 22 when the affair began (FILES\/DOD\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

In 1998, Lewinsky\u00a0hit headlines<\/a>\u00a0across the\u00a0world<\/a>\u00a0after a workplace relationship with Bill Clinton was exposed to the public.<\/p>\n

The pair had become embroiled in an affair in the early-mid 90s, after a family friend helped Lewinsky bag an initially-unpaid job in 1995 as one of Clinton’s interns, under Chief of Staff Leon Panetta.<\/p>\n

At the time, Clinton was 49 – and had been\u00a0married<\/a>\u00a0to wife Hillary since 1975 – whilst Lewinsky was just 22.<\/p>\n

The president was impeached by the House of Representatives, before being acquitted of all\u00a0charges<\/a>\u00a0in 1999, remaining in his position until the end of his second presidential term in 2001.<\/p>\n

Looking back on her podcast this week, Lewinsky admitted she suffered a colossal blow to her\u00a0mental health<\/a>\u00a0when the affair was initially exposed, leading her, at one point, to feel there was nowhere she could turn.<\/p>\n

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Clinton initially denied sexual relations with Lewinsky (Harry Hamburg\/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“I think what surprised me almost the most was that some of the hardest times and the times I came closest to not wanting to be here anymore were in the aftermath because I didn\u2019t realise how much I had lost,” she confessed.<\/p>\n

“When I came to realise how much I had lost, when I came into my anger, when I came into this period of my life where I could not move forward.”<\/p>\n

Lewinsky – who has since started a career as an activist, with a particular focus on cyberbullying – says the scandal left her unable to take on any professional endeavours.<\/p>\n

Claiming that, at her lowest, she ‘couldn’t see a future’, she added that she’d often spend evenings crying in bed, not wanting ‘to wake up’.<\/p>\n

At the time, Clinton denied accusations of sexual relations between the pair under oath, after Lewinsky alleged that she’d had 10 encounters with the politician in the Oval Office over an 18-month period.<\/p>\n

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The affair came to light in 1998 (JON LEVY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

In 2004, Lewinsky publicly responded to the release of Clinton’s autobiography, in which he spoke briefly of the affair.<\/p>\n

Speaking<\/a>\u00a0to the Mail at the time, she said of the memoir: “He could have made it right with the book, but he hasn’t. He is a revisionist of history.<\/p>\n

“He has lied. I really didn’t expect him to go into detail about our relationship. But if he had and he’d done it honestly, I wouldn’t have minded.”<\/p>\n

Lewinsky added at the time: “I did, though, at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking.<\/p>\n

“I was the buffet and he just couldn’t resist the dessert. This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through.<\/p>\n

“I don’t accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.”<\/p>\n

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Lewinsky reflected on how the affair impacted the rest of her life (Leon Bennett\/GA\/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Despite her initial rage, in her podcast, Lewinsky also vowed not to let the scandal dictate the course that the rest of her life would take.<\/p>\n

“What I thought was happening in those two years in D.C. and what I thought this relationship was, I\u2019ve come to understand it in different ways,” she explained.<\/p>\n

“I think that it was something where there were real emotions involved, but I think I believed that there was a future.<\/p>\n

“I think I believed that I mattered a lot more than I did.”<\/p>\n

Featured Image Credit: Nathan Congleton\/NBC via Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n

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