Monica Lewinsky Slams Bill Clinton for ‘Gross Abuse of Power’

Monica Lewinsky is speaking out once more, and this time she isn’t pulling any punches.
In a new interview circulating just as President Donald Trump enters his second year back in the White House, Lewinsky blasted former President Bill Clinton for what she now calls a “gross abuse of power” during their notorious 1990s affair.

“It’s taken time, age, and distance,” Lewinsky, now 52, said. “But the truth becomes clearer the farther away you get from something. That relationship was a gross abuse of power. Full stop.”

Her comments land at a moment when Republican lawmakers are re-examining the Clintons’ past conduct, particularly as new allegations surrounding the Epstein network continue to resurface in Washington.

Lewinsky once insisted the affair was consensual. But decades later, she says maturity and therapy forced her to confront the imbalance.

“I was young. I made mistakes. I’ve always admitted that,” she said. “But none of that excuses the behavior of the most powerful man in the world toward a girl in her early 20s.”

Her remarks revive a scandal that shook the nation, reshaped American politics, and ultimately led to Clinton’s impeachment on perjury and obstruction charges. Clinton’s infamous declaration — “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” — remains one of the most replayed denials in political history.

Behind the tabloid frenzy was a personal crisis few saw.

“The public humiliation was excruciating. Life was almost unbearable,” Lewinsky said, recalling the days when the scandal drowned every corner of her life.

She revealed that her father contemplated jumping off a balcony. Her mother suffered what she described as a “severe emotional collapse.” Lewinsky herself fought off suicidal thoughts.

“I was drowning,” she said. “I had no sense of safety anywhere.”

She spent years in trauma therapy and was formally diagnosed with PTSD.

Lewinsky says she has not spoken to Bill Clinton in nearly 30 years.

“I don’t know what his internal landscape is,” she said. “But I know he escaped a lot more than I did.”

For Republicans, that line stings. Many conservatives argue the Clintons never faced real accountability — protected, they say, by a friendly press environment that no longer exists in the Trump era.

Even Hillary Clinton isn’t spared in Lewinsky’s reflection.

“When they make headlines now, it matters less,” she admitted. “But it’s still strange to watch them move on from something that shattered my life.”

Three Decades Later, She’s Still Picking Up the Pieces

Lewinsky has recast herself as an anti-bullying advocate and podcaster, but the shadow of the Clinton scandal has never fully disappeared.

“I could have become a bitter person,” she said. “I’m very lucky I didn’t. I still have love in my heart.”

But her message in 2026 is clear: what happened wasn’t a fling, a scandal, or a mistake. It was, in her words, “an abuse of power by a president who knew exactly what he was doing.”

As Trump administration officials push renewed ethics reforms and investigations tied to the Epstein files, Lewinsky’s voice has resurfaced at a politically explosive moment — one that could again haunt America’s most famous political couple.

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