Monica Lewinsky thinks that there could've been a "right way" that former U.S. president Bill Clinton handled the fallout of their affair.
Lewinsky, who was a White House intern during her time of briefly being involved with Clinton in the 1990s, appeared on a new episode of the podcast, Call Her Daddy, posted on Tuesday (Feb. 25). Clinton, who originally denied under oath that he had "sexual relations" with Lewinsky, was impeached in 1998, although 55 in the Senate voted for him to be acquitted.
Around the 46-minute mark of the video below, CHD host Alex Cooper asked Lewinsky how she thinks the situation should have been handled when news about their affair surfaced. Since 1975, Clinton has been married to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"I haven't been asked that before, so I think that the right way to handle a situation like that would have been to probably say it was nobody's business and to resign, or to find a way of staying in office that was not lying and not throwing a young person who is just starting out in the world under the bus," Lewinsky replied.
"At the same time, I'm hearing myself say that, and it's like, Okay, but we're also talking about the most powerful office in the world. I don't want to be naïve either," she continued.
For the last three decades, Lewinsky has figuratively worn a scarlet letter over the affair, being continuously referenced in pop culture, but has since rebranded herself as an author, anti-cyberbullying activist, and podcaster.
"I think there was so much collateral damage for women of my generation to watch a young woman to be pilloried on the world stage, to be torn apart for my sexuality, for my mistakes, for my everything," she told Cooper.