Posted on 04/16/2016 8:07:10 AM PDT by simpson96
One night in London in 2005, a woman said a surprisingly eerie thing to Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky had moved from New York a few days earlier to take a master’s in social psychology at the London School of Economics. On her first weekend, she went drinking with a woman she thought might become a friend. “But she suddenly said she knew really high-powered people,” Lewinsky says, “and I shouldn’t have come to London because I wasn’t wanted there.”
Lewinsky is telling me this story at a table in a quiet corner of a West Hollywood hotel. We had to pay extra for the table to be curtained off. It was my idea. If we hadn’t done it, passersby would probably have stared. Lewinsky would have noticed the stares and would have clammed up a little. “I’m hyper-aware of how other people may be perceiving me,” she says.
She’s tired and dressed in black. She just flew in from India and hasn’t had breakfast yet. We’ll talk for two hours, after which there’s only time for a quick teacake before she hurries to the airport to give a talk in Phoenix, Arizona, and spend the weekend with her father.
“Why did that woman in London say that to you?” I ask her.
“Oh, she’d had too much to drink,” Lewinsky replies. “It’s such a shame, because 99.9% of my experiences in England were positive, and she was an anomaly. I loved being in London, then and now. I was welcomed and accepted at LSE, by my professors and classmates. But when something hits a core trauma – I actually got really retriggered. After that I couldn’t go more than three days without thinking about the FBI sting that happened in ’98.”
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Sticks to you like tar. Or something.
eewww.
I always thought Oxyclean should have hired her after Billy Mays died.
I feel bad for her. She screwed up in her youth, with an exploitative creep. Let others learn from her mistake. You lay down with the dogs and you get the fleas.
The shame sticks on like tar...
And that’s why she won’t go away but instead keeps showing up every few years?
She could live a quiet life in a small community and no one would care. She keeps herself in the well traveled paths. I feel for her though, regret is terrible.
Yeah, poor choice of words.
“And that’s why she won’t go away but instead keeps showing up every few years?”
She’s like the herpes that Bill gave her. (not slander, it’s in the Starr report.)
In a way, she’s lucky.
How many people get to have a sex act named after them?
HBO does the big sob story on Anita Hill over a damn public hair... How about one on the damage done to Paula, Monica, and Kathleen?
Oh I know - because HBO is a suck up member of the liberal elite liars club.
Monica Lewinsky, ever the victim. she had the sympathy of the majority of the populace until she and her family started to blame everyone except Bill Clinton.
Even now damn, near 20 years later, it is still, They, They, They. Damn is that enough or too many commas?
Well said.
I think she’s actually handling it pretty well. I don’t get the feeling that she is wallowing in self-pity (”Look at me! I’m a victim”). Maybe a little. But I really get the sense that she understands that she is an object lesson for young people who do stupid things. It can haunt you. I don’t know if anyone in their early 20s is learning anything from Lewinsky’s situation, but the lesson is out there, in part because Lewinsky mentions it. Which I think is to her credit.
Linda Tripp just may have saved her life with the blue dress advice.
She still protects Bill. She's an idiot
I feel the same way, at least she has a conscience unlike the one who used her.
She was sexually harassed by Clinton. Not one leftist ever spoke those words.
A manager who invites a female employee out for lunch can be accused of harassment and fired. Clinton was defended by the left.
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