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Monica Lewinsky has reflected on her past affair scandal with Bill Clinton. The 51-year-old was an intern at the White House when then-President Clinton, 78, embarked on an eighteen-month-long sexual relationship with her - which ultimately led to an impeachment trial. Appearing on Elizabeth Day's How To Fail podcast, Lewinsky reflected on the scandal and how she was vilified and branded a "bimbo" amid the scandal. ”It was 22 to 24-year-old young woman's love. The way we see love evolves with every relationship we have. I think there was some limerence there and all sort of other things, but that's how I saw it then. I think it was also an abuse of power.” Lewinsky made her way into the heart of power in the USA after being made aware of the intern program by a family friend, and argues her ability to secure a job at the top of politics proves she does not lack intelligence. ”My very first job out of college was working in the White House. I don't think that that's the kind of trajectory that someone thinks then 10, 12 years later, that person's not going to be able to get hired.” "Then I worked in the Pentagon as well and travelled the world with my boss - who was the Pentagon spokesman - and we travelled with the Secretary of Defense. I'm by no means a genius, by no means going to be the cream of the crop, but I wasn't a bimbo. I wasn't a dumb bimbo.” Clinton was eventually acquitted following an impeachment trial at the end of the 1990s, and has remained married to wife Hillary Clinton, 77, who he wed in 1975.
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