Monica Lewinsky on Power, Scandal, and Female Experience

0:00On April 24th, Monica Lewinsky handled an awkward onstage moment like a pro recently in West Hollywood. Someone brought up her affair with Bill Quentin and she just laughed it off. Back then, she was a 21-year-old unpaid intern at the White House, starting in 1995 in their relationship lasted until 1997. She got hit with another question about feeling wrong in her career, or painted as the villain just for being a woman in that spot. Lewinsky said being female shaped her whole experience, especially since she didn't fit the typical image people had in mind. She pointed out how terms like slut-shaming and fat-shaming weren't even around back then. Imagine if she were a guy, with late-night hosts like Jay Leno have piled on with all those jokes. That scandal shook the country hard, leading to Clinton's impeachment in 1998 for perjury and obstruction, though he got acquitted and stayed in office. Lewinsky now calls it a gross abuse of power at its core. These days, she hasn't topped

1:00to him in nearly 30 years and feels he got off way easier than she did, even while owning her own mistakes. It's a reminder of how power dynamics still echo loud. Pop culture, powered by AI. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News today.