Monica Lewinsky announced recently that she was starting a new podcast. Vanity Fair did a profile/interview with her last month which gave this brief summary of her post Clinton-White-House years.
After years of shaming over the scandal that defined her public narrative, Lewinsky wrote about the personal trauma she had endured in a 2014 Vanity Fair essay. There, she declared it was time to “burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” Her subsequent redemption arc coincided with an increased cultural consciousness around sexual power dynamics. During that time, she has often written about the topic of reclamation, and also took literal ownership of her story: Lewinsky both participated in the 2018 documentary The Clinton Affair and served as a producer on the FX scripted series Impeachment: American Crime Story the following year.
Now Lewinsky gets to ask…
