The former president famously lied about his affair with Lewinsky in 1998] “I think that the right way to handle a situation like that would have been to probably say it was, you know, nobody's business and to resign,” Lewinsky told Cooper, the most-listened to female podcaster in the world.
Lewinsky, now an anti-bullying activist, has been very outspoken about the affair in recent years, often noting the power imbalance between her as a young intern and Clinton, then 49 years old and one of the most powerful men in the world.
Lewinsky, appearing on Alex Cooper’s podcast Call Her Daddy, said Clinton did not handle himself appropriately when news broke that the two had an affair while she was a 22-year-old intern in the White House.
“I'm very clear this was not sexual assault, and therefore there's a level of consensuality that was there — and at the same time because of the power dynamics and the power differential, I never should have been in that position,” Lewinsky told Cooper.
Earlier this month, Lewinsky also spoke to Rolling Stone, explaining she will always remember January 16, 1998 as “Survivor’s Day” — the day she was detained by the FBI and questioned for 11 hours about the affair.
