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Monica Lewinsky Weighs in on #MeToo Movement

Monica Lewinsky Weighs in on #MeToo Movement

Monica Lewinsky Weighs in on #MeToo Movement

In the wake of Hollywood’s #MeToo movement, Monica Lewinsky no longer feels alone.

The infamous White House intern-turned-activist penned an open letter for Vanity Fair in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Kenneth Starr‘s investigation into former President Bill Clinton.

Lewinsky had a sexual relationship with Clinton for two years during her interim at the White House, which subsequently put her in the center of a sexual and political scandal in 1998 at just 22 years old.

Lewinsky, 44, says the revolutionary #MeToo movement has helped her overcome her trauma of the scandal, and now she doesn’t feel alone.

As I find myself reflecting on what happened, I’ve also come to understand how my trauma has been, in a way, a microcosm of a larger, national one. Both clinically and observationally, something fundamental changed in our society in 1998, and it is changing again as we enter the second year of the Trump presidency in a post-Cosby-Ailes-O’Reilly-Weinstein-Spacey-Whoever-Is-Next world.

Check out the full letter on Vanity Fair.

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