Monica Lewinsky says about himself: “I am the first person whose reputation was destroyed by the Internet.” Nevertheless, she twitters now – even over her affair with Bill Clinton. The reactions are sometimes not quotable.

Monica Lewinsky ventures increasingly back into the public. The woman, who as an intern in the White House received an affair with then-US President Bill Clinton in the nineties, is now also active on Twitter. Lewinsky also gave a speech on Monday at a conference of the American magazine “Forbes” for top young talent in the financial sector.

The ex-intern announced to stand up against the background of their own experiences against online bullying. “I was the first patient. The first person whose reputation was destroyed by the Internet world,” she said. At that time there had been no Facebook or Twitter. But even through e-mails and websites themselves have the “gossip” spread rapidly.

“I am in love with my boss, as do 22-year-old. It happens., But my boss was the president of the United States,” Lewinsky said at the conference. “Overnight I became a non-public person to outlaw figure.”

After Lewinsky few months ago already published a long text about the scandal in the magazine “Vanity Fair”, the 41-year-old has now also attracted the interest of tens of thousands of Twitter users. “Here we go,” she wrote on Monday as the first message. Within a few hours following their accountMonicaLewinsky already more than 50,000 users. Not all were called Lewinsky welcome: “You’re irrelevant,” it said in a reply to their tweet. Then we went not quotable. The “Washington Post” has put together a collection of the most violent reactions.

Begun in 1995 extramarital affair with Lewinsky Clinton would have cost almost the Office. The House of Representatives initiated in December 1998, the impeachment trial on suspicion of perjury and obstruction of justice. Clinton had stated to have had no sexual relationship with the intern. He survived the procedure because of the Senate vote in February 1999, not the required two-thirds majority was reached.

“I deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton,” Lewinsky had written in her “Vanity Fair” article in May. The love affair had indeed taken place “by mutual consent”, however it was later made a “scapegoat” to “protecting his position of power”. Lewinsky stated in the text, such as the stigma had weighed upon her life and her career. “I finally decided to stretch my head above the parapet, so I take my story to me again and can give my past a purpose.”

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