Monica Lewinsky

Freedom.

From the past, from the trauma, from the Twitter voices telling me I'm ugly.

Like, from all the shit I've been carrying my entire life, the shit that just sticks with you, sticks on you.

From all the people that are climbing, all the things.

I'm cleaning fucking house, and I want to experience real and true freedom.

And I think...

I want to say thank you to you for having me.

Oh my gosh, thank you for coming and trusting me.

Well, you provided a really safe space and I feel really safe and comfortable.

So I want to say thank you.

And I feel like when someone is a safe person, interviewer, they should know that it's appreciated that they're safe.

Thank you.

Because as a survivor of things, I'm sure you know, but...

like the freedom to talk about what I can talk about.

I appreciate you allowing me to feel safe while doing that.

It's really huge.

It's healing.

And so every single day is healing a little something.

So I want, my intention is reclaiming freedom.

Last but not least, my very first interview for Reclaiming was with Alan Cumming, and we didn't have the question yet, so enjoy this funny anyway.