It’s been over 25 years since the infamous Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky scandal that exposed the dark secrets that happened behind closed doors during the Clinton administration.
But now Bill Clinton is making a shocking confession about the Lewinsky scandal nobody saw coming.
According to reports, Bill Clinton’s new memoir “Citizen” reportedly details his irritation at being questioned about the Lewinsky affair during a NBC interview that aired six years ago.
During the interview, “Today Show” host Craig Melvin surprised Clinton by grilling him on whether he would resign if his scandal had happened amid the 2018 #MeToo movement.
And according to excerpts of the book obtained by The Guardian, it was reported that:
“The former president insisted no because, he reasoned, the impeachment was illegitimate and had to be fought,”
“Then Melvin read from a Lewinsky column about how the MeToo reckoning changed her view of sexual harassment and asked if Clinton felt differently now.”
The Guardian report went on to quote an excerpt from the book where Clinton wrote:
“I said, ‘No, I felt terrible then.’ ‘Did you ever apologize to her?’ I said that I had apologized to her and everybody else I wronged. I was caught off guard by what came next. ‘But you didn’t apologize to her, at least according to folks that we’ve talked to.’ I fought to contain my frustration as I replied that while I’d never talked to her directly, I did say publicly on more than [one] occasion I was sorry.”
But according to the report on Clinton, “he was prepared to be asked why he had not apologized to Lewinsky in person but not to be accused of not apologizing at all.”
Clinton added that the interview “was not my finest hour,” but nonetheless criticized the interviewer for having been “barely in his teens when all this happened, and probably hadn’t been properly briefed.”
“Regardless, it’s always better to save your anger for what happens to other people, not yourself,” the former president reportedly added.
Clinton ended by saying in his book:
“I live with it all the time. I wish her nothing but the best.”