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  • Monica Lewinsky Shares ‘Devastating Consequences’ of Affair With Bill Clinton to Fight Cyberbullying in TED Talk

    Monica Lewinsky appeared in Vancouver Thursday for a TED Talk and went straight to the point.

    “At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss. And at the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences,” began Monica Lewinsky.

    Monica Lewinsky’s TED Talk appearance and sharing details of her famed affair with former president Bill Clinton seems to coincide suspiciously with Hillary Clinton’s ramp-up to a presidential run.

    Lewinsky once again acknowledged her role in the affair and shared how the aftermath has affected the rest of her life.

    “Now I admit I made mistakes — especially wearing that beret — but the attention and judgment that I received — not the story, but that I personally received — was unprecedented,” said Monica Lewinsky. “I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo and, of course, ‘that woman.’ I was known by many, but actually known by few. I get it. It was easy to forget ‘that woman’ was dimensional and had a soul.”

    For many years, Lewinsky remained in the background, but she has emerged of late with a new image and very outspoken against cyberbullying, which was the subject of her TED Talk.

    Because of the timing of the affair, Lewinsky was one of the first to be harassed by internet trolls, even before the term became commonplace.

    However, Monica Lewinsky said that early harassment was nothing compared to what some experience today.

    “Public humiliation as a blood sport has to stop,” said Lewinsky. “We need to return to a long-held value of compassion and empathy.”

    Monica Lewinsky offered encouragement to those who are bullied on the internet, reminding them that there is always a future, despite the pain and devastation.

    “Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: you can survive it,” she said. “I know it’s hard. It may not be painless, quick or easy, but you can insist on a different ending to your story.”

  • Monica Lewinsky To Help Victims of Cyber-Bullying

    Monica Lewinsky has taken on a new role in society. The former disgraced White House intern has emerged from the shadows and will now be an advocate for bullied kids.

    Monica Lewinsky was one of the first people to be bullied on the internet.

    “I fell in love with my boss in a 22-year-old sort of a way,” Lewinsky said at the Forbes Under 30 Summit.

    She added, “I was patient zero, the first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the internet.”

    Back in 1998 when the story broke and Monica Lewinsky‘s world, and the Clintons’ world, came crashing down, internet bullying was not near the problem that it is today. However, Lewinsky likens her situation to that of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers student who committed suicide in 2010 after his intimate encounter with another man was caught on camera and put online.

    Lewinsky says that she, too, could have been bullied to death and did contemplate suicide as a result of the harassment.

    “I would go online, read in a paper or see on TV, people referring to me as: tramp, slut, whore. Frankly, I came close to disintegrating,” she admitted.

    Monica Lewinsky says her mother took the Tyler Clementi news really hard.

    “My mother was unusually upset by the story and I wondered why,” Lewinsky said.

    She added, “Eventually it dawned on me: she was back in 1998, when I, too, might have been humiliated to death.”

    So, what issue does Monica Lewinsky hope to tackle by speaking out for cyber-bullying victims?

    Monica Lewinsky explains, “Online, we’ve got a compassion deficit, an empathy crisis, and something tells me that matters a lot more to most of us.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaTFqttOpjE

    Fighting cyber-bullying is really a great cause to lend her name to! Good luck to Monica Lewinsky.

    What do you think of Monica Lewinsky’s involvement in the fight against cyber-bullies?