Join Alex in the studio for an interview with Monica Lewinsky. Monica reflects on how her life turned upside down after a clear abuse of power from the President. She discusses navigating double standards, slut shaming, and how she has finally reclaimed her narrative.
Chapter 1: What led to Monica Lewinsky's public scandal?
Daddy gang, picture this. You just got one of the most prestigious internships in the country and you feel like your career is about to take off. You're so excited to be working alongside your boss who is without a doubt the most important person and everyone loves and admires this man. One day, he starts to show you attention. He even begins to flirt with you. And one thing leads to another.
And you guys end up in a full-blown secret relationship. For a while, everything's great. He's giving you gifts. He's making you feel special. And you confide in your coworker telling her everything about the relationship. But then one day, you're at the mall. and the FBI surrounds you.
They know about you and your boss's relationship because your coworker secretly recorded your conversations and turned them over to the FBI. They tell you if you don't cooperate, you will go to jail. Suddenly, every explicit detail of you and your married boss's relationship is released to the public.
Next thing you know, your face is on the cover of every newspaper and every news channel is talking about you. They call you a slut and a whore. They criticize your body and they embarrass you every single day for decades to come. You're not allowed to talk to your friends about it. You can barely leave your house.
Your name and reputation are completely ruined and your life crumbles before your eyes. Daddy gang, this is a true story. This is Monica Lewinsky's story. When Monica Lewinsky was 22 years old, she was an intern at the White House, and she ended up in a two-year relationship with her boss, the President of the United States, Bill Clinton.
Their relationship was exposed to the public after Linda Tripp, a woman Monica trusted as a close friend, secretly recorded their phone calls and handed them over to the FBI. After that moment, Monica's life was changed forever. She became the sole focus of a massive investigation that resulted in Bill Clinton's impeachment and her very public downfall.
Despite, and I want to emphasize this, despite the 27-year age gap and a clear abuse of power from the president, Monica was the one who was ripped apart in the media. Her name became synonymous with blow jobs and she was relentlessly slut shamed, body shamed, and publicly humiliated for years.
Daddy gang, unfortunately, as women, we are way too familiar with the double standards of how men get treated in this world versus how women get treated. while Bill Clinton still gets to embrace and enjoy his life in the public eye, Monica has spent years working through the lasting effects of this trauma. So now, it is Monica's turn to reclaim her name and share her side of the story.
What is up, Daddy Gang? It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy. Monica Lewinsky, welcome to Call Her Daddy. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. I am so happy we're finally meeting. It's been a long time coming. I've been looking forward to this conversation for a very, very long time.
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Chapter 2: How did Monica Lewinsky's life change after the scandal?
I appreciate you explaining it like that because I never thought about it. Like when you're in that restaurant and you spill the wine, you go home that night and you envision those exact faces at that table. And you're like, oh, my God, I hope they forget this. I hope that like but you have a visual. Right. And what you're describing is.
if anything, yeah, you have like the most real horrific lived experience of what now so many kids are living online, which is this like unseen beast out there that is talking about you, that is taunting you, that is speaking about you and they've never met you. They don't know you. They don't know your character. They're just taking what they've seen, glimpses online.
Like, didn't they even just like use your passport photo when they
oh my god my work passport photo Jesus it was the worst but it's all manipulated right like who wants their passport photo but it's all but that's so media of to train someone to believe something about yourself in those rock bottom moments that you just shared with me like having the weight of truly the world on you of people talking about you and you were contemplating is it easier to just not be here what kept you going
I call them moments of grace. And so I think if you have that moment of grace and the... I don't know that beauty is the right word, but the beauty of having one moment of grace is that somewhere lodged in the back of your mind will always be that experience of having had that grace. You get through the moment and... things get better.
It doesn't always just continue better and better for the rest of your life. But once you've, you know, and that's, it's especially why I worry so much about young people because they haven't had enough life experience to like now at 51, when
something bad happens and feels devastating, I have a whole folder of times that I've had fucked up thing happen, I'm devastated, dah, dah, dah, whatever it is, and then it got better. And now I panic even less and less, which is amazing. I'm so grateful for that.
So yeah, don't let young people listening, don't let anybody tell you it is not great to get older because your 50s are fucking amazing. Yeah. You have a long time to get there, girl, but it's amazing to feel so comfortable with yourself. Right.
And to know what to expect, know how you react, know what upsets you, know what you can get through. Like your threshold, you start to learn more and more.
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