Monica Lewinsky Says Former President Bill Clinton Should’ve Resigned From Office After Affair

But as she noted, now so many years removed from the scandal, “I’m really grateful that I’m at a place where I don’t need it anymore.”

For his part, Clinton—who has been married to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton since 1975—addressed the scandal in the 2020 documentary Hillary.

“I feel terrible about the fact that Monica Lewinsky’s life was defined by it, unfairly I think,” he said in the doc, per CNN. “Over the years, I’ve watched her trying to get a normal life back again, but you’ve got to decide how to define ‘normal.’”

And indeed, Lewinsky—whose new podcast Reclaiming recently debuted—has been candid about the ways in which she herself has reclaimed the narrative around the scandal, pointing to the last 10 years of her life as having turned a corner.

For one, she and her family refer to Jan. 16—the day she was seized by FBI agents at the age of 24—as “Survivor’s Day.”

“That was the worst day of my life thus far,” Lewinsky told Rolling Stone in an interview published Feb. 14. “It’s connecting to that, but in a way that brings it back to myself.”