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  • Monica Lewinsky Speaks Candidly About Bill Clinton Affair and Joins Twitter, Amassing 35K Followers in 8 Hours

    Monica Lewinsky, the woman best known for an infamous affair with President Bill Clinton, spoke candidly Monday about the aftermath of the scandal.

    Lewinsky, 41, spoke about the affair with Clinton at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia, including the blow the scandal caused to her self-esteem.

    “Frankly, I came close to disintegrating. No, it’s not too strong a word. I wish it were, but it isn’t,” said Lewinsky, tearfully. “A relentless mantra in my head: I want to die.”

    She recalled how her life turned upside-down after news of the affair broke.

    “Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure, to a publicly humiliated one. I was ‘patient zero’ – the first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.”

    According to Lewinsky, who now works on behalf of victims of online humiliation and harassment, she had to construct a separate mental reality to cope with the public display of her private life.

    “During this period, I gradually came to realize that there were two Monica Lewinskys … There was me, and there was public Monica Lewinsky,” she said. “A somewhat curious character, constructed by political factions and the media. Constructed with a little fact, and a lot of fiction. My friends didn’t know that Monica. My family didn’t know that Monica. And this Monica, the real Monica standing here today, didn’t know her either.”

    Lewinsky — who joined Twitter on Monday and amassed more than 35,000 followers in the first eight hours — first broke her decade-long silence about the affair in May, when she wrote an article in Vanity Fair, in which she said, “It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.”

    She detailed the days leading up to and following the scandal, and expressed some self-forgiving over her mistakes.

    “I fell in love with my boss,” she confessed. “In a 22-year-old sort of way, it happens. But my boss was the president of the United States. That probably happens less often.”

  • Monica Lewinsky Tell-All Could Earn Her Millions

    Monica Lewinsky became a household name when it was revealed that she had a torrid affair with Bill Clinton while he was in office, and although the world heard quite a bit more about the president’s sex life than we probably wanted to, Lewinsky insists she has more to tell. The 39-year old is currently shopping around a tell-all memoir which includes details of the affair and talks about Clinton’s damaged marriage.

    A “source” says that Lewinsky is planning on including excerpts from love letters she wrote to Clinton, and will detail his penchant for “kinky” sex. Of course, coming fourteen years after the fact, the book probably won’t do much to damage Clinton’s reputation–he left office with an extremely high approval rating despite the scandal–but if the rumors are true and Lewinsky releases info from her private conversations with the former president, it could draw some very negative attention towards his wife Hillary.

    According to Lewinsky’s friends, she’s described some of those conversations as having to do with the Clintons’ “non-existent” sex life, with Bill calling his wife a “cold fish”. They also say that because of the scandal’s long reach, she’s had trouble getting jobs and is looking to make quite a bit of money with this book deal–upwards of $12 million, reportedly.