Monica Lewinsky: Public shame ‘sticks to you like tar’

Monica Lewinsky: Public shame ‘sticks to you like tar’

Lewinsky, now 42, has emerged as a amorous anti-bullying apostle about two decades afterwards her sex aspersion with above President Bill Clinton abject her through account and fabricated her the base of every articulate sex joke.

Infamous White House intern-turned-cyberbullying activist Monica Lewinsky compares her years of accessible awkward to “a skinning of sorts.”

“I acquainted like every band of my derma and my character were ripped off of me in ’98 and ’99,” she told The Guardian in a contour appear Saturday. “You feel abundantly raw and frightened. But I aswell feel like the abashment sticks to you like tar.”

She bankrupt a years-long blackout on their appointment and its fallout in a 2014 Vanity Fair feature.

In the Guardian interview, appropriately conducted by "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" columnist Jon Ronson, Lewinsky compared the act of blowing to cutting.

“People who cut are aggravating to localise (sic) their pain. I anticipate with bullying, humans are adversity for countless affidavit and are bulging it. Instead of acid themselves, they’re acid anyone else.”

The scandal-scarred TED anchorperson aswell opened up — as she has ahead — about advancing “very close” to a suicide attempt, traveling so far as to plan out the method.

“I anticipate some adolescent humans don’t see suicide as an ending, but as a reset,” she said.

The arduous assignment of active online harassment, she added, isn’t just on men.

“Women are not allowed to misogyny,” Lewinsky said. “I anticipate it’s fair to say that whatever mistakes I made, I was afraid out to dry by a lot of humans — by a lot of the feminists who had loud voices. I ambition it had been handled differently.

“It was actual alarming and actual ambagious to be a adolescent woman advance on to the apple date and not acceptance to any group. I didn’t accord to anybody.”

Lewinsky beneath in the account to animadversion on boisterous mogul Donald Trump’s acknowledgment that she’d be “fair game” in his attack adjoin Democratic beloved Hillary Clinton — but did appearance off her new band of anti-bullying emojis and GIFs.

"I’m afflicted by what happens on the apple stage. But I don’t let it avert me," she said. "I’m abundantly beholden for the movement I accept in my activity appropriate now."

mjagannathan@nydailynews.com

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