Monica Lewinsky reflects on Clinton affair aftermath: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’

Infamous White House intern-turned-activist Monica Lewinsky cyberbullying compare her years of public shaming to "a skinning of sorts."

"I felt like every layer of my skin and my identity Were ripped off of me in '98 and '99," She Told The Guardian in a profile published Saturday. "You feel incredibly raw and frightened. But I feel like the shame Also sticks to you like tar. "

Lewinsky, now 42, has Emerged as a passionate anti-bullying advocate almost two Decades after her sex scandal With former President Bill Clinton Dragged her through headlines and made her the butt of every joke oral sex.

She broke a years-long silence on Their tryst and Its fallout in a 2014 Vanity Fair feature.

In the Guardian interview, Appropriately Conducted by "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" author Jon Ronson, Lewinsky Compared to the act of bullying cutting

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