Nearly two decades after her personal life was put up on public display, #MeToo helped Monica Lewinsky battle isolation and shaming. In a recent essay, she says, “Isolation is such a powerful tool to the subjugator. And yet I don’t believe I would have felt so isolated had it all happened today. One of the most […]

Monica Lewinsky called out TV network HLN after CNN announced a special called The Monica Lewinsky Scandal. She asked why the media insisted on shaming her and naming the scandal after her when it was really the then US President Bill Clinton’s scandal. In a tweet, she offered more appropriate titles like The Clinton Impeachment […]

Monica Lewinsky faced a lot of harassment after the news about her affair with the then President Bill Clinton. She is now an advocate against the public bullying culture and speaks candidly about it in an interview for Refinery29.  “Having been a poster child for public humiliation, I thought sharing my story might give a […]

‘Monika Lewinsky’- the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear her name, is her illicit affair with the then President of the United States, Bill Clinton. Lewinsky, however, is much more than that.

Monica Lewinsky, in her own words was “possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the internet.” A cyberbullying victim, Lewinsky was humiliated on the internet because it was revealed that she had been having an affair with her boss, a married man. The reason why the controversy took this shape was because […]