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Lewinsky breaks silence

FORMER White House intern Monica Lewinsky broke her silence Tuesday about her 1990s affair with President Bill Clinton, saying she wants to reclaim the narrative of events that brought her global humiliation.

Lewinsky, now 40, was in her early twenties when she became the infamous blue dress and beret-wearing muse who engaged in oral sex with the president and then endured a colossal backlash that nearly drove her to suicide.

After years of being turned away by potential employers and ridiculed online, she decided to write her version of events in this month’s Vanity Fair magazine.

She said her silence was so complete for nearly a decade that rumors swirled that the Clintons must have paid her off.

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” she wrote.




 

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