Monica lewinsky said being publicly shamed feels like 'a skinning of sorts'

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Monica Lewinsky spoke out about the public shame she faced on and offline after news broke of her affair with then-President Bill Clinton in a rare interview with _The Guardian_ on Saturday.


"I felt like every layer of my skin and my identity were ripped off of me in '98 and '99," she said. "It's a skinning of sorts. You feel incredibly raw and


frightened. But I also feel like the shame sticks to you like tar." Lewinsky, who first broke a years-long silence in a 2014 interview with _Vanity Fair_, said she nearly attempted


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