![]() ![]() In reality the signing was in London, but Lewinsky says the moment was very similar in real life. Having published her biography, Monica’s Story, written by Andrew Morton with her cooperation, she’s signing books at a New York City bookstore and feeling overwhelmed by the crowd, telling herself, “I’ll be okay” before the episode cuts to black. It’s interesting to speak to the real Lewinsky-an anti-bullying advocate, speaker, and writer for this very magazine-moments after watching the final episode of Impeachment, which leaves a much younger version of Lewinsky in a very vulnerable moment. “It was so lovely to all be together and to have this moment of discussing the show and the process and the experiences in a warm environment like that.” “I’m relieved,” she says over Zoom the morning after hosting an onstage interview with series creator Sarah Burgess and stars Sarah Paulson (who plays Linda Tripp), Annaleigh Ashford (who plays Paula Jones), and Beanie Feldstein (who plays Lewinsky herself). Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for people, ages 10-14 and 25-34, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Monica Lewinsky does not have trouble finding the words to describe how she feels at the end of Impeachment: American Crime Story. It was, tragically, too late for Clementi, but Lewinsky knew she was meant to help other young victims of online harassment, and maybe even save a life-considered the highest value in Judaism.Ī decade later, there is so much more work to be done. His loss, in part, compelled her to "bring a purpose to her past," as she wrote in a 2014Įssay. His death resonated with Lewinsky, and marked a turning point in her journey. Days later, Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge. The video went viral, and vicious online harassment ensued. In 2010, years before her public reemergence, she learned about Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University freshman whose roommate filmed him on a webcam engaging in sexual relations. She is a crusader against a "culture of shame," as she puts it in her 2015 TED Talk, and a champion for younger victims of online harassment. Outside of rehabilitating her own image, Lewinsky has used her unique vantage point and platform for a greater good-to denounce bullying. Today, Lewinsky has been trying her hand as a Hollywood producer, executive producing a documentary examining shame and cancel culture, and serving as a producer of a limited drama series last year about the scandal. ![]() She reemerged almost a decade later, managing to reinvent herself. In 2005, a broken Lewinsky-who later admitted to almost taking her own life-retreated from the American spotlight and escaped to London. She was relentlessly shamed in the media for years, the butt of cheap and vulgar late night talk show punchlines. When the scandal broke in 1998 at the dawn of the digital age, Lewinsky became the first ever target of cyber-bullying-before we could even name it. It's taken a long time, but she somehow has triumphed over her past personal hell. Her words showed restraint, grace, and class, and exemplified one of the many ways Lewinsky, who is Jewish, has reclaimed her story. ![]() But last month, 25 years after she became a household name for all the wrong reasons, she was lauded in the media.Īfter the recent death of Kenneth Starr, the prosecutor whose probe uncovered her affair with President Bill Clinton, she tweeted: "…My thoughts about Ken Starr bring up complicated feelings…But of more importance, is that I imagine it's a painful loss for those who love him." For years, the name Monica Lewinsky was synonymous with public humiliation.
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