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Hillary Clinton Explains How Former President Bill Clinton Broke The Monica Lewinsky Scandal To Their Daughter, Chelsea
Everyone knows that episode: a president cheated on his wife and the entire world blamed the fellow. For the first time, those affected themselves have spoken about it in the documentary ‘Hillary’, which opens today in the United States
The documentary Hillary, which premieres today on the Hulu streaming platform in the United States (does not yet have a release date in Spain) reviews the figure of Hillary Clinton with unpublished scenes from her 2016 presidential campaign and intimate interviews with herself and everything its environment.
The figure of Hillary Clinton – as the first lady at the beginning and as first woman candidate for the American presidency afterward – is exciting, but there is a topic that is dealt with in the documentary that is the one that has raised the most expected and has not so much to do with his professional achievements: the Lewinsky scandal.
Bill Clinton’s extramarital affair with one of her White House Fellows, young Monica Lewinsky, led first to a media scandal in 1998 and then to an impeachment to the President for perjury, from which she emerged unscathed in 1999. In media coverage of the most questions that many see today as infamous, the media focus and the pressure was put on her, on the young Monica. Years later, in an article published in 2014 in Vanity Fair, with the title “Shame and Survival”, he spoke of the depression he had suffered as a result of the public humiliation he received from the media.
The other great protagonist was Hillary Clinton. Although Monica Lewinsky was a fox in the collective imaginary produced by the media, Hillary was considered an idiot for continuing with her husband. Promoting his documentary on the Ellen Degeneres show last February, he dealt with precisely that image.
“Not divorcing was the bravest decision I have ever made,” he told Ellen. “It was difficult to relive it, talk about it and also with my husband participating as well. […] Many women were pissed off because I chose to stay with my husband. Many said: ‘I can’t support her, I don’t like her to continue with him.’ But many of them, right after saying that, literally added below: ‘But I love her husband, I love Bill Clinton.’ Well, me too! ”
The American media, like People, are now praising the words of the most important part of this triangle: Bill Clinton himself, until now the man who more comfortably flew over the scandal once the impeachment was overcome.
This is how Clinton remembers the moment when he had to explain to his wife and daughter. “I sat up in bed and talked to Hillary. I told him exactly what had happened and when it had happened. I said, ‘I feel terrible.’ I said, ‘We’ve been through a lot in the past few years. I have no justification. What I have done is inexcusable ”.
Still, he tries to explain the inexcusable. According to the former president, it is not as if “you sit down and think: ‘I am going to take an irresponsible risk. Something bad for my family, bad for my country, bad for the people who work for me. No, this is not how it happens. It is rather that you are falling. You have been in a fifteen round fight that is going to extend to thirty and suddenly there is something that can ease and distract you for a while. We all have pressures and disappointments in life, fears, terrors, whatever. These are things I did to try to calm my anxiety for years. Now I am a totally different person. ”
In the documentary, Hillary herself relates: “I was devastated. I just couldn’t believe it. Other than personal pain, I couldn’t believe he had lied. I said [to Bill], ‘If this is going to be made public, you have to tell Chelsea [his daughter]. ” The couple prefers not to tell how that episode was with their daughter, who was then eighteen years old, but they do remember that it was their daughter who held them together and it was what made the relationship survive the scandal.
Sebastian was born and raised in the busy city of Abbottabad. As a journalist, Saad Mushtaq has contributed to many online publications including the PAK Today and the Huffing Post. In regards to academics, Saad Mushtaq earned a degree in business from the Abbottabad UST, Havelian. Saad Mushtaq follows the money and covers all aspects of emerging tech here at The Hear Up.Thanks