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What you need to know about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Why was Bill Clinton impeached? Were Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp friends? In March , in the wake of the metoo revisiting of sexual harassment by powerful men, Monica Lewinsky herself revisited the topic in Vanity Fair. She described once running into special prosecutor Ken Starr in a restaurant. In the essay, Lewinsky wrote that she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and still feels trauma.

Those pursuits evaporated. By Jessica McBride. Updated Sep 8, at am. We… TZ. In a brave talk,… TZ. I allow Heavy. Disagree Agree. Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. Yet her name was a go-to punchline in tasteless late-night monologues, her character ridiculed in mainstream media and by private citizens, all because she'd been one half of the most famous extramarital affairs in U. As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recalls in Hulu's Hillary documentary , when news of Lewinsky's affair with President Clinton initially broke, he vehemently denied it privately and publicly "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," he infamously claimed in a January news conference.

Ahead of the first news reports, President Clinton told his wife it was all a big mix-up. Lewinsky signed an affidavit stating she and President Clinton never had a sexual relationship she has claimed that he'd advised her to do so , and President Clinton denied it in a deposition for a separate legal suit that same January.

It didn't take long for President Clinton's version of events to unravel, though, and by February of —with help from headline-making, secretly-recorded confessions Lewinsky made to her former coworker Linda Tripp—it became clear that his indiscretions with his intern were a fact.

The details of their encounters became widely-known, from the stained blue dress to the cigar. As Lewinsky said in a TED Talk , "Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide.

I was patient zero of losing a reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously. The upcoming series Impeachment: American Crime Story attempts to share her experience, rather than perpetuating the media myth. Here's how the "real" Lewinsky has handled the aftermath since and what she's doing now. Lewinsky collaborated with the show's creators to make sure the drama reflected her experiences.

Executive producer Ryan Murphy knew that the woman at the center of the true story should be involved in the project. Speaking at the TCA, producer Brad Simpson said Lewinsky was the "main consultant" in rendering details about the affair, and she provided "specificity and veracity. In October , Lewinsky tweeted MeToo — the hashtag millions of people used to indicate that they had experienced sexual harassment and assault.

It was unclear what specifically Lewinsky was referring to in her tweet. Very, very complicated. On Aug. Beanie Feldstein will play Lewinsky in the series. Write to Samantha Cooney at samantha. By Samantha Cooney. A photograph showing former White House intern Monica Lewinsky meeting President Bill Clinton at a White House function submitted as evidence in documents by the Starr investigation and released by the House Judiciary committee September 21, Photo by Dave M.