Claim to Fame: former White House intern that then-President Bill Clinton admitted to having had what he called an "inappropriate relationship" with while she worked at the White House in 1995–1996.
Why She's the Person of the Week: for coming out and speaking her truth on the affair she had as a young intern who was taken advantage of by former President Bill Clinton. Lewinsky, now an activist and fashion designer , opened up about her affair with President Clinton during a five part series on A&E entitled, "The Clinton Affairs."
In the final episode, Lewinsky admitted Clinton wanted her to lie about their relationship under oath if she was called to testify in the Paula Jones case, the woman whose sexual harassment case against Clinton sparked the broader investigation into Clinton’s affairs (which Slick Willie has denied).
In the series Lewinsky also talks about weathering public shame, feminism, judgment from the media, placing her experience in the context of the #Metoo movement, and her anti-bullying campaign that involved celebrities briefly changing their Twitter display names to the public slander that had hurt them the most (Monica changed hers to “Monica Chunky Slut Stalker That Woman Lewinsky”).
And in revisiting the 1998 sex scandal that nearly unraveled Clinton's presidency, Lewinsky hopes that she can retire the term "Lewinsky scandal" once and for all.
"I think 20 years is enough time to carry that mantle," the former White House intern, now 45, writes in a new Vanity Fair essay published Tuesday.
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