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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nToday Vanity Fair revealed that this month's issue will contain an exclusive in-depth interview with Monica Lewinsky. Her 10-year silence about the 1998 Clinton affair and subsequent trial caused rampant rumors and speculation. (Some of the gossip: She was penning a tell-all \u2014 not true \u2014 and the Clintons paid her for her silence \u2014 also not true.)  Part of the reason that Lewinsky decided to revisit her story a decade later, she told the magazine, was that the 2010 Tyler Clementi suicide reminded her family of the public humiliation that almost drove her to take her own life. Her mother was particularly distraught after the Clementi suicide, because, says Lewinsky, \"She was reliving 1998, when she wouldn't let me out of her sight. She was replaying those weeks when she stayed by my bed, night after night, because I, too, was suicidal. The shame, the scorn, and the fear that had been thrown at her daughter left her afraid that I would take my own life\u2014a fear that I would be literally humiliated to death.\" Inspired by this, Lewinsky aims to \"get involved with efforts on behalf of victims of online humiliation and harassment and to start speaking on this topic in public forums.\"  Lewinsky also notes that due to the Drudge Report, she was one of the first to be globally humiliated by the Internet. She doesn't mention this element, but unfortunately, feminist blog culture wasn't yet around to point out the sexist and exploitative nature of the whole mess. Any time you're blaming the single \"other woman\" instead of the married man who betrayed his wife is a time that you are #incorrect. Sorry, not sorry.  There's no doubt that the people who are determined to label Lewinsky a manipulative, fame-obsessed seductress (Let's remember that she was a 22-year-old intern, and the man was President Bill Clinton \u2014 who's seducing who, here?) will continue to do so. But it's clear to me that the precise reason that she's speaking out, and continues to speak out, is to remind America that her name is a national joke. And it's totally our fault. We should be ashamed of ourselves.  Follow Anna on Twitter.  Photo Credit: Getty"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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