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Monica Lewinsky says 'grief' led her to take part in new docuseries 'The Clinton Affair'
MSN 'News' ^
| November 13, 2018
| Jayme Deerwester
Posted on 11/13/2018 6:22:07 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
With "The Clinton Affair," Monica Lewinsky is ready to revisit the 1998 sex scandal that nearly unraveled Bill Clinton's presidency, and she hopes by doing so she can retire the term "Lewinsky scandal" once and for all.
"I think 20 years is enough time to carry that mantle," the former White House intern, now 45, writes in a new Vanity Fair essay published Tuesday.
In the essay, she explains what motivated her to take part in the 6 1/2-hour series, which premieres Sunday (9 EST/PST) from Emmy-winning producer Blair Foster ("Get Me Roger Stone," "Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind") and Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney ("Taxi to the Dark Side," "The Looming Tower").
*SNIP*
Another impetus, she says, was grief: "Grief for the pain I caused others. Grief for the broken young woman I had been before and during my time in D.C., and the shame I still felt around that.
Grief for having been betrayed first by someone I thought was my friend, and then by a man I thought had cared for me. Grief for the years and years lost, being seen only as 'That Woman' saddled, as a young woman, with the false narrative that my mouth was merely a receptacle for a powerful mans desire. (You can imagine how those constructs impacted my personal and professional life.)"
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: lewinsky
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
The feminists loved him, hated her.
Tells you everything you need to know.
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:24:13 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Good grief, will she ever leave the stage?
3
posted on
11/13/2018 6:25:39 PM PST
by
CaptainK
('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
To: Diana in Wisconsin
“Grief” my Great Aunt Fanny; she’s doing this for the money and attention!
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:27:04 PM PST
by
nopardons
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I am very sad for what she had to go through. I just want to give her a big hug. I cant imagine. It was all so unfair for her.
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:27:05 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: All
I’ve always felt terribly sorry for her. BUT - she wants to apologize to Hillary? FOR WHAT?
Um, No. Look at all the women who came before and AFTER you, Monica!
This sexual PREDATOR is what he is...and his WIFE aided and abetted him EVERY step of the way!
And rumor has it...she’s running for President - AGAIN?!?!
Democrats are thoroughly lobotomized when it comes to the Clintons. I’ll NEVER understand it. Never.
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:27:07 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
To: Diana in Wisconsin
The Clinton Affair on A&EPremiering Sunday, November 18 at 9P, the comprehensive three-night documentary series "The Clinton Affair" from Academy Award® and Emmy®-winning producer Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions and Emmy®-winning director Blair Foster weaves together never-before-seen archival footage with exclusive new interviews to examine the biggest political scandal of a generation and its lasting influence and reverberations on our country.
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:28:23 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Grief?
I think she wanted to take one more shot at Bill.
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:29:01 PM PST
by
cymbeline
To: Yaelle
Ping to my Post #6. I felt sorry for her...up until today.
However, she’s been pretty ‘mum’ about it all for 20 years. Did the hush money finally run out?
One wonders. ;)
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:29:04 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
To: Diana in Wisconsin
It had nothing to do with “Cha-ching.”
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:29:27 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Arkancide Threat? More likely.
How has she been able to live at ‘The Watergate’ and support herself all these years? I never looked into it.
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:31:56 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
To: CaptainK
Considering how this makes Hillary feel I wish Monica had taken the stage more often and more loudly.
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:32:01 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Are we going to get a blow by blow account of the details? I hope not the less I know about Billy Boy the happier I am.
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:32:07 PM PST
by
DazedVet
(Self esteem cannot be taught in school but comes from actual achievement.)
To: DazedVet
Only if you and Laz are lucky, LOL! :)
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:33:18 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Anything that reminds us of what a pig was Bill Clinton is a good thing.
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:34:43 PM PST
by
karnage
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Tough situation for her. As an adventure, she got the big fish. The affair would likely have fizzled and been forgotten, except he was too powerful, too famous, and in public political combat.
She got caught in that web,and then she couldn’t ever get away from it. It must have screwed up her love life almost completely, for a long time, if not forever.
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:35:21 PM PST
by
Pearls Before Swine
("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Congrats are due to Monica for introducing a new verb to English language....Lewinsky!
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:36:41 PM PST
by
entropy12
(One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
To: DazedVet
“...blow by blow account of the details...”
PLEASE, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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posted on
11/13/2018 6:37:39 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Monica is undergoing conversion therapy.
Grief into Cash.
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