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Monica Lewinsky has revealed how he remembers the news of his adventure day with Bill Clinton that broke.
On January 16, 1998, the former 51 -year -old White House intern was arrested by the FBI and interrogated for 11 hours the Office of the Independent Council in the midst of an investigation into his relationship with the 42nd President of the United States. Lewinsky, who was only 24 years old, was pushed to the center of attention with Clinton, who was 51 years old and married at that time, generating one of the greatest world scandals of the twentieth century.
Talk with Rolling stone In a new interview, Lewinsky said that he will always remember that fateful moment as “survivor day”, and his family will do.
“There are still things that I do on January 16 every year, that was the day the sting operation occurred,” he said in the article published on Friday. “We celebrate.”
“Sometimes my mother buys me a gift or I buy a gift, and I only really recognize it,” Lewinsky continued. “That's when I connect with my past. That was the worst day of my life so far. It is connecting with that, but in a way that brings it back to myself. ”
“Much of the personal work I have done [has been] Working directly to forgive and let things go, ”he said. “Of course, I have moments when they definitely trigger me or get angry or I feel sad.”
The best “gift” Lewinsky received in the last decade has been space and privacy, he said.
“I think the gift that the world gave me in these last 10 years [is to] Finally, be able to make a forward movement and be taken seriously as a human being; It allowed me to throw a lot of that, ”he explained.
Lewinsky kept out of the public eye for some time after his historical interrogation and Clinton's trial trial, but the US activist spoke in a revealing essay for Vanity Fair In 2014.
“It's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress,” he said in piece. “I, myself, deeply regret what happened between the president and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. myself. Deeply. Regret. That. Happened.”
The “blue dress” that Lewinsky referred to is a dress that he used with a stain that was later confirmed by the FBI of Clinton's ejaculation after Lewinsky supposedly gave him oral sex.
Reflecting on his last relationship with Clinton, who has been married to former First Lady Hillary Clinton for almost 50 years, Lewinsky believes it was “abuse of power of textbooks.”
“It's interesting because it feels like I aged, I look at him differently. Now I am 51 years old. The idea of being in a relationship [at this age] With a 24 -year -old is crazy for me, at many levels, ”he said Rolling stone. Clinton was 49 years old when he started his 18 -month matter with Lewinsky, who was 22 when he started.
“There are so many different ways of developing what you thought was, which meant for you at that time, how you see it now,” he continued.
Lewinsky has plans to launch his first podcast with Wondary called Claim On February 18.
“With the podcast, [it] It feels like a new chapter for me. It is a different way to use my voice, recover my voice and, in that sense, connect with people, and I hope you do it, ”said Lewinsky.
