Monica Lewinsky

Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.6 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In the powerful premiere of Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky, Monica reflects on how she found the strength to take back her story after the scandal that turned her life upside down. With raw honesty, she opens up about the years of public shame, personal struggle, and the turning point that led her to reclaim her voice. This episode offers an intimate look at Monica’s journey from survivor to activist—and the strength it took to become the woman she is today. Interviewed by Elna Baker.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky early and ad free right now.
0:06.4	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:18.5	Hi, I'm Monica Lewinsky. Welcome to reclaiming.
0:22.8	And today's guest is going to be me.
0:27.3	So as we've been standing up this show the last few months, a lot of the producers have asked questions at different times.
0:35.8	And in fact, one of our producers was born the
0:38.8	year after 1998, after I was in a global scandal. And I think that we just found over time that it
0:51.1	made sense to sit down and explore what happened, how I, basically, how I got to
1:00.8	having this show of reclaiming, why it's called reclaiming, and how my own journey, my own
1:07.9	reclaiming story is in the bones of this show. One of our producers,
1:13.6	Elena Baker, drew the short end of the stick. So she's here with me. And Elna is a writer
1:20.1	and also worked on this American life for over a decade. So hopefully if you're sitting there
1:26.2	listening and you're wondering certain things,
1:30.1	we might get to it because it's been 27 years since it happened.
1:38.3	Thank you to our presenting sponsor, Audible.
1:45.7	Visit audible.com slash reclaiming to find your next listen.
1:50.2	Thank you to our sponsor Reformation.
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2:01.2	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.
2:11.0	But I didn't know your story.
2:13.0	And then in preparation for this, I watched, I binge watched impeachment the last two days.
2:19.1	And I personally, I just can't believe, I'm like, this happened to my friend Monica.
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