Exclusive: Monica Lewinsky Writes About Her Affair with President Clinton | Vanity Fair

Exclusive: Monica Lewinsky Writes About Her Affair with President Clinton | Vanity Fair: Monica Lewinsky writes in Vanity Fair for the first time about her affair with President Clinton: “It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” She also says: “I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.”

After 10 years of virtual silence (“So silent, in fact,” she writes, “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”), Lewinsky, 40, says it is 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.)”



 Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order
to protect his powerful position. . . . The Clinton administration, the
special prosecutor’s minions, the political operatives on both sides of
the aisle, and the media were able to brand me. And that brand stuck, in
part because it was imbued with power.”



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