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If you get caught having an affair with an intern and using the White House for your illicit affairs, it turns out that she will follow you for the rest of your life.
In his new memoir, former President Bill Clinton expresses frustration at being questioned about the relationship years later and admits he never directly apologized to Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton, now 78, was impeached by the House of Representatives when it emerged in 1998 that he had lied about a sexual relationship with the 22-year-old.
In ‘Citizen,’ released next week, he writes about a 2018 interview on NBC’s ‘Today Show’ when he admits that questions about the topic ‘caught him off guard.’
According the guardianwho obtained a copy, was hoping to talk about a new novel he had co-authored with thriller writer James Patterson.
But host Craig Melvin brought up the #MeToo movement and asked if the issue would be a resignation issue now.
Clinton said no, insisting that she had to fight against an illegitimate impeachment.
Melvin went on to quote a column by Lewinsky about how the #MeToo movement had changed her view of sexual harassment and whether Clinton felt differently today, too.
US President Bill Clinton is asked about former White House intern Monica Lewinsky at a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema at the White House in 1999.
A photograph showing former White House intern Monica Lewinsky meeting with President Bill Clinton at a White House function presented as evidence in documents from the Starr investigation and released by the House Judiciary Committee on the 21st September 1998.
Clinton’s new memoir comes out Tuesday
“I said, ‘No, then I felt terrible,'” Clinton writes.
‘”Did you ever apologize to her?” I told her I had apologized to her and everyone else I had hurt. What came next took me by surprise.
“But you didn’t apologize to her, at least according to people we’ve talked to.”
“I struggled to contain my frustration as I responded that, although I had never spoken to her directly, I had said publicly on more than (one) occasion that I was sorry.”
He goes on to admit that the interview “wasn’t my finest moment,” but he can’t resist criticizing Melvin, writing that he was “I was barely a teenager when all this happened and probably hadn’t been informed properly.
And he admits that it is better to reserve anger for what happens to other people than for what happens to oneself.
“I live with it all the time,” he says.
‘Monica has done very good and important work in recent years in her anti-bullying campaign, earning her well-deserved recognition in the United States and abroad. I wish you nothing but the best.
Three years after Clinton’s interview, Lewinsky herself said that she didn’t need an apology from her, but that she should want to apologize for what she did.