Monica Lewinsky
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Well, I mean, I think that it really was the younger generation. When I wrote my first person essay for Vanity Fair in 2014, it was your generation and the younger generations that really
Well, I mean, I think that it really was the younger generation. When I wrote my first person essay for Vanity Fair in 2014, it was your generation and the younger generations that really
insisted on reevaluating this story because you were all coming to it with just the facts, not having gone through the brainwashing or lived through that media lens and bringing different perspectives that happened throughout generations, right, from generations. And so it was really interesting to have this front row seat to observe everything
insisted on reevaluating this story because you were all coming to it with just the facts, not having gone through the brainwashing or lived through that media lens and bringing different perspectives that happened throughout generations, right, from generations. And so it was really interesting to have this front row seat to observe everything
insisted on reevaluating this story because you were all coming to it with just the facts, not having gone through the brainwashing or lived through that media lens and bringing different perspectives that happened throughout generations, right, from generations. And so it was really interesting to have this front row seat to observe everything
In the very beginning of the article coming out, it was sort of the same voices saying the same thing. Oh, you know, go away. You had your 15 minutes. And then it was the younger generation, the younger journalists, the younger women journalists who were starting to say, hold up.
In the very beginning of the article coming out, it was sort of the same voices saying the same thing. Oh, you know, go away. You had your 15 minutes. And then it was the younger generation, the younger journalists, the younger women journalists who were starting to say, hold up.
In the very beginning of the article coming out, it was sort of the same voices saying the same thing. Oh, you know, go away. You had your 15 minutes. And then it was the younger generation, the younger journalists, the younger women journalists who were starting to say, hold up.
All the things that you just said about the power differentials, both from age and within the resources, resources of both money and power and people who work for you who are able to disseminate information. I had to hire lawyers. I'd never done any of those things.
All the things that you just said about the power differentials, both from age and within the resources, resources of both money and power and people who work for you who are able to disseminate information. I had to hire lawyers. I'd never done any of those things.
All the things that you just said about the power differentials, both from age and within the resources, resources of both money and power and people who work for you who are able to disseminate information. I had to hire lawyers. I'd never done any of those things.
i was split because i felt so guilty um i felt so guilty for everything i i felt like this having become public was my fault that i had because i had confided in linda and so if i had not confided in her I felt as if this wouldn't have become public. And so there was an enormous amount of guilt. I didn't want him to lose his job. So there was a part of me that felt good. Deny it.
i was split because i felt so guilty um i felt so guilty for everything i i felt like this having become public was my fault that i had because i had confided in linda and so if i had not confided in her I felt as if this wouldn't have become public. And so there was an enormous amount of guilt. I didn't want him to lose his job. So there was a part of me that felt good. Deny it.
i was split because i felt so guilty um i felt so guilty for everything i i felt like this having become public was my fault that i had because i had confided in linda and so if i had not confided in her I felt as if this wouldn't have become public. And so there was an enormous amount of guilt. I didn't want him to lose his job. So there was a part of me that felt good. Deny it.
This is what you should do. You know, that sort of a thing. And then there was a part of me that um, was so humiliated and, um, to kind of have the most powerful man in the world saying that, um, you know, basically your damaged goods like is, uh, not something, not something you want as a 51 year old woman and not something you want as a 24 year old woman.
This is what you should do. You know, that sort of a thing. And then there was a part of me that um, was so humiliated and, um, to kind of have the most powerful man in the world saying that, um, you know, basically your damaged goods like is, uh, not something, not something you want as a 51 year old woman and not something you want as a 24 year old woman.
This is what you should do. You know, that sort of a thing. And then there was a part of me that um, was so humiliated and, um, to kind of have the most powerful man in the world saying that, um, you know, basically your damaged goods like is, uh, not something, not something you want as a 51 year old woman and not something you want as a 24 year old woman.
It was, well, it was gaslighting. So I think that was what I experienced on a pretty large scale. And it was... It was devastating. You know, it was devastating at the time. And I think what, you know, what we see now in today's world and as a grown woman, I hate to break it to any 24-year-olds listening to this because I know from 21 to 20, like 25, you think you know everything.
It was, well, it was gaslighting. So I think that was what I experienced on a pretty large scale. And it was... It was devastating. You know, it was devastating at the time. And I think what, you know, what we see now in today's world and as a grown woman, I hate to break it to any 24-year-olds listening to this because I know from 21 to 20, like 25, you think you know everything.
It was, well, it was gaslighting. So I think that was what I experienced on a pretty large scale. And it was... It was devastating. You know, it was devastating at the time. And I think what, you know, what we see now in today's world and as a grown woman, I hate to break it to any 24-year-olds listening to this because I know from 21 to 20, like 25, you think you know everything.