Former US president, Bill Clinton has revealed that his affair with a former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky was one of the things he did to manag
Former US president, Bill Clinton has revealed that his affair with a former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky was one of the things he did to manage his anxieties and a way to help ease the pressures of the job, DailyMail is reporting.
Clinton in an explosive documentary series said that he had the fling with the ex-White House intern while he was in office because it helped with his own issues. Bill reveals that at the time he met Lewinsky the pressure of the job made him feel like a boxer who had done 30 rounds and he looked at Lewinsky as ‘something that will take your mind off it for a while’.
The documentary series named ‘Hillary’ which will air on Hulu is about his wife where the former First Lady and Secretary of State candidly reveals that in the aftermath of the scandal the couple underwent painful marriage counseling. Bill offers an apology to Lewinsky in the documentary and says he felt terrible that her life was defined by their affair. But he said that at some point when things don’t return to normal ‘you’ve got to decide how to define normal’, suggesting the infamous former intern should just move on.
The four-part series features extraordinary access to the Clintons’ inner circle and examines Hillary’s public life from her student days to losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump.
Asked why he took such a risk with his family, his marriage and his country, Bill said he wasn’t thinking about those things when he cheated. Instead, the pressures of being in the White House led him to seek a distraction. Everybody’s life has pressures and disappointments, terrors, fears of whatever.
“Things I did to manage my anxieties for years. I’m a different, totally different person than I was, a lot of that stuff 20 years ago,” he said.
Bill did not explain exactly what he was referring to, but Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Lucinda Franks has claimed that in 1999 Hillary told her Bill confessed that his mother abused him as a boy and caused him to become a sex addict.
The scandal led to Clinton being impeached in 1998. His hand was forced in 1998 when it became apparent he had lied to a grand jury investigating his personal affairs by denying the affair. Bill had also denied it to Hillary – and she believed him. He would later admit to his wife about the affair and also told his daughter. The family went to Martha’s Vineyard for a vacation and when they returned Hillary had decided to stand by her husband and fight his impeachment. Clinton survived the trial in the Senate and remained in office during his second term.
The last time Bill spoke about the scandal was in 2018 and it backfired spectacularly because he said that he did not owe Lewinsky a private apology. But in the documentary, he went through in great detail, at times appearing emotional as he talked about the moment he finally came clean to his wife. He said in the interview: “I went and sat on the bed and talked to her. I told her exactly what happened, when it happened. I said I feel terrible about it. We’ve been through quite a bit in the last few years. I said I have no defense, it’s inexcusable what I did.”
