7th March, 2020
Bill Clinton has revealed why he cheated on his wife, Hillary, with Monica Lewinsky while he was the President of the United States.
At the time, Monica Lewinsky was an intern to Jennifer Palmieri — who was a special assistant to the White House chief of staff.
However, Clinton made the revelation while speaking in a new documentary series, ‘Hillary’, aired on March 6th, which details the life of former first lady Hillary Clinton, including her early relationship with Bill Clinton, their marriage, the scandal, and her 2016 presidential campaign.
According to the Former President of the United States, he cheated with Lewinsky because it helped to ‘manage his pressures and anxieties at the time in the White House.’
The former President added that he met Lewinsky at a point where the pressure of being the president is taking a toll on him and he told himself ‘Here’s something that will take your mind off it for a while.’
He described the extra-marital affair as something that he used to take his mind “off work for a while.”
The scandal at that time led to Clinton being impeached in 1998 by the Reps.
However, he survived the trial in the Senate and remained in office during his second term.
Clinton, however, apologised to Lewinsky, adding that he feels ‘terrible’ that the affair with him defined her life.
“You feel like you’re staggering around, you’ve been in a 15-round prize fight that was extended to 30 rounds and here’s something that will take your mind off it for a while, that’s what happens.
“Everybody’s life has pressures and disappointments, terrors, fears of whatever.
“Things I did to manage my anxieties for years. I’m a different, totally different person than I was, a lot of that stuff 20 years ago.
“I feel terrible about the fact that Monica Lewinsky’s life was defined by it, unfairly I think.
“I’ve watched her over the years trying to get a normal life back again but you’ve got to decide how to define normal,” Clinton added.