Everyone who was around in the late 90s and many others as well know very well who Monica Lewinsky is. For the unversed, the former White House intern and now an activist and a public speaker was involved in a wildly infamous affair with then-US President Bill Clinton, which catapulted her to fame (or infamy?) during the late 90s.
Lewinsky has once again surfaced to the headlines when she decided to take a dig at Clinton once again, this time using a line from the recent Taylor Swift album The Tortured Poets Department.
She posted a picture of the White House from her X handle and captioned it with a line from the song Who's Afraid of Little Old Me: "you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me."
While some X users lauded Lewinsky for being able to make a joke out of one of the biggest scandals in the US in the last 30 years that directly involved her, others said using the line with the US White House was unfair on her part since it is a national institution.
"Your ability to have a sense of humor over what they did to you is pretty inspirational," one user wrote.
Another said, "Delete this Marion. It is very, very disrespectful - that is the US Capitol. So regardless of whether you voted for them or not, your constitutional oath of loyalty requires you to support them and not post filth like this. I am shaking with rage"
A law graduate, Lewinsky had begun working in the White House during the first term of the Clinton government. In 1995, the two of them developed a clandestine affair that lasted a little more than one and a half years.
Although Clinton initially denied the charges, he was later held in civil contempt of court and was also impeached.
Published 26 April 2024, 11:25 IST