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Hi, I'm Monica Lewinsky. Welcome to reclaiming.

And today's guest is going to be me.

So as we've been standing up this show the last few months, a lot of the producers have asked questions at different times.

And in fact, one of our producers was born the

year after 1998, after I was in a global scandal. And I think that we just found over time that it

made sense to sit down and explore what happened, how I, basically, how I got to

having this show of reclaiming, why it's called reclaiming, and how my own journey, my own

reclaiming story is in the bones of this show. One of our producers,

Elena Baker, drew the short end of the stick. So she's here with me. And Elna is a writer

and also worked on this American life for over a decade. So hopefully if you're sitting there

listening and you're wondering certain things,

we might get to it because it's been 27 years since it happened.

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Well, first off, I'll jump in and I'll say, you know, people have said you have to have been living under a rock or be in a coma to not know the Monica Lewinsky story.

But I didn't know your story.

And then in preparation for this, I watched, I binge watched impeachment the last two days.

And I personally, I just can't believe, I'm like, this happened to my friend Monica.

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