What’s the most high-risk, low-reward thing you’ve ever done? Unless it was starting an affair with your boss, who was also more than twice your age, who was also the president — it probably can’t top Monica Lewinsky’s answer.
Ms Lewinsky, a former White House intern and the woman embroiled in one of the most high-profile political scandals of all time, retweeted a tweet from UberFacts asking people to state the most high-risk low-reward thing they had ever done, responding with a simple eyes popping open emoji.
Ms Lewinsky, who is now an anti-bullying advocate, was pilloried in the media after it was revealed she and married President Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship between 1995 and 1997 when she was in her early 20s.
According to History.com Clinton, 49, publicly denied his involvement with Lewinsky but news of the affair became public knowledge in 1998 after Ms Lewinsky’s co-worker secretly recorded some of their conversations and released the information to a literary agent, before the Drudge Report, a conservative online news outlet, published details of the affair and Ms Lewinsky’s identity.
The President was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice for claiming that what he did with Ms Lewinsky didn’t meet the definition of ‘sexual relations’, but he was later acquitted by the Senate. A report that detailed Clinton and Lewinsky’s affair in graphic detail — the Starr report — was later released publicly and published as a best-selling book.
Ms Lewinsky became a household name after the scandal and was widely condemned for her part in the affair, while Clinton finished his second term with high approval ratings.
Ms Lewinsky was mocked on TV talk shows, and became the subject of fat jokes and sexualised jokes. She said she later became suicidal, was blacklisted from jobs and even turned away from volunteering for charities.
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Ms Lewinsky has said bullying is a global ‘epidemic’.
“Personally, I survived with some healthy and less healthy coping mechanisms,” she told Teen Vogue in 2019.
“I was very blessed to have a supportive family who continually reminded me of my true self — that the public Monica Lewinsky was not me.
“My younger brother said the sweetest, most supportive thing to me around that time: To everyone else, you may be 'Monica Lewinsky,' but to us you’re still just Monka (my family nickname).”
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