Bawdy intern who sparked Capitol Hill crisis, launches Twitter account, whines to the world.
“'My name is Monica Lewinsky – though I've often been advised to change it, she told a rapt crowd of valueless millennials at Forbes’ Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia.
It was the cigar-loving bad girl’s’ first public speaking engagement in more than a dozen years.
Lewinsky, 41, joined Twitter less than two hours before taking the podium.
“Overnight I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero, the first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet,’ Lewinsky said.
Spy witnesses Tweeted, one could hear a pin drop.
Lewinsky, best known her sordid affair with then -President Bill Clinton, did not mince words.
‘Sixteen years ago, fresh out of college…I fell in love with my boss,’ Lewinsky shouted from the highest hill – the stage.
Yet, her outlook for the future is tainted with the pessimism of a world enraptured in solipsism. “There is an empathy deficit," she said.
"There's no way to wrap your head around when it will end.”
