Monica Lewinsky: What happened next? - The Saturday Story
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It had it all: sex, lies, FBI stings, and the first presidential impeachment for over a century. Thirty years on from the most famous “office romance” in modern politics, Monica Lewinsky reflects, in her own words, on the impact of being 'that women'. With former president Bill Clinton’s conduct once again being questioned amid the Epstein files, we revisit 1998: the power imbalance, the media feeding frenzy, and the question that still lingers - who really paid the price? From global slut-shaming, to a life derailed at 24, this is the story of what happened next.
Guest: Jane Mulkerrins, Associate Editor, Times Magazine.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Dave Creasey.
Read more: Monica Lewinsky: I was called a bimbo and abused on a world stage
Clips: CNN, ABC, Fox News.
Photo: Aaron Richter for the Times Magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story on Saturday. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Manvina Rana. |
| 0:11.0 | It was billed as the world's most famous office romance. |
| 0:16.0 | I did not have sexual relations with that woman. |
| 0:20.3 | But became the biggest political scandal of the 1990s. |
| 0:25.6 | Potentially, damage and cloud is hanging over the White House this morning. |
| 0:29.6 | New allegations that President Clinton had an affair with a former White House intern |
| 0:33.6 | and then urged her to lie about it. |
| 0:45.0 | I went to bed one night, and the next day, you become a public person without having had an intention to. |
| 0:49.4 | Nearly 30 years on from what became an excruciatingly public affair with the then-president |
| 0:56.0 | Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, has spoken to the Times Magazine about how she looks back |
| 1:02.7 | on that period. |
| 1:04.5 | The farther away you get and the more mature you get and the more healed you get, you see |
| 1:08.6 | something differently and you're able to hold it and examine it in a way that you couldn't before. |
| 1:13.7 | With the release of the Epstein files bringing Bill Clinton's exploits back into the spotlight, |
| 1:19.4 | we look back to 1998. |
| 1:22.3 | Were the women around the president more damaged by the scandal than he was? |
| 1:27.4 | And if it broke now, would it still be reported in the same way? |
| 1:37.1 | This was a gross abuse of power. |
| 1:40.9 | It was a gross abuse of power, full stop. |
| 1:43.7 | The story today, Monica Lewinsky, what happened next? |
| 2:08.2 | So I'm in a hotel room in midtown Manhattan, just south of Columbus Circle. |
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