Graydon Carter has found a way to continue pretending that the Millennium never came by including an "exclusive" with Monica Lewinsky in the June issue of Vanity Fair. What's new with Monica? She wants to "take back her narrative" and "help victims of internet shaming." 
 
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 Though the full story won't be out until May 8 (TWO DAYS), the teaser available online indicates that Lewinsky's in-her-own-words-style piece "critiques the culture that put a 24-year-old through the wringer and calls out the feminists who joined the chorus." All while wearing a virginal white dress. 
 
 Lewinsky is still sorry about having sexual relations with that man. ("I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened") but she also wants us all to move on: "It's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress." 
 
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 In the article, Lewinsky still maintains that she and Clinton had a consensual relationship, but alleges that she was abused by those who wanted to "brand" her after the fact. As she's said before, she had difficulty getting work after their affair, though she turned down lucrative offers she didn't feel comfortable with. 
 
 As she's said before, Lewinsky has had moments when she felt suicidal. Reading about Tyler Clementi's story prompted strong emotional reactions for Lewinsky and her mother; Lewinsky identifies with Clementi and has chosen to move forward with her as-of-yet-undefined campaign to end internet bullying because she considers herself "possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet." It's difficult to comprehend how an individual can put the past behind them while also bringing up that past as relevant to their new life purpose, but perhaps Lewinsky's Vanity Fair presence will finally give her the media control she wants. 
 
 According to New York Times reporter Amy Chozick, the piece will also include criticisms of Hillary Clinton ("I find her impulse to blame the Woman—not only me, but herself—troubling") and Beyoncé's "Partition": 
 
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 "Thanks, Beyoncé, but if we're verbing, I think you meant 'Bill Clinton'd all on my gown,' not 'Monica Lewinsky'd.'" ||||| Monica Lewinsky didn’t shy away from sharing her thoughts about a forthcoming HLN special titled The Monica Lewinsky Scandal. The 44-year-old author took to Twitter on Tuesday, November 28, to offer her insight on the name. 
 
 “Fixed it for you. You’re welcome,” the former White House intern captioned a screenshot of an article promoting the two-hour special airing on Sunday, December 2, at 9 p.m. ET. on CNN’s sister network. The Monica: Her Story author replaced the title with her own correction, suggesting it be called The Starr Investigation or The Clinton Impeachment instead. 
 
 Lewinsky received a great deal of support on Twitter following her Tweet on Tuesday. 
 
 You have been such an inspiration to me on my journey from victim to advocate for online hate and cyberbullying prevention. Please keep smiling and stay positive. You are admired and appreciated by many people. — Lisa-Michelle Kucharz (@lmkucharz) November 28, 2017 
 
 President Barack Obama’s former aide, Alyssa Mastromonaco, also backed Lewinsky on Twitter while using the hashtag, “#IStandWithMonica.” 
 
 As previously reported, Lewinsky engaged in a sexual affair with then-President Clinton while she was an intern in 1998. Lewinsky has since spoken out about being publicly shamed and ridiculed for years after the news of the relationship went public. 
 
 “I felt like every layer of my skin and my identity were ripped off of me in ’98 and ’99,” the fashion designer told the Guardian in April 2016. “It’s a skinning of sorts. You feel incredibly raw and frightened. But I also feel like the shame sticks to you like tar.” 
 
 While giving a TED Talk in Vancouver, Canada, in March 2015, Lewinsky further opened up about the scandal and revealed that it will always affect her. “Not a day goes by that I am not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deeply,” she said at the time. “In 1998, after having been swept up in an improbable romance, I was then swept into the eye of a political, legal, and media maelstrom like we had never seen before … I lost my reputation and my dignity. I lost my sense of self.” 
 
 Although Bill and Hillary Clinton have refrained from publicly supporting Lewinsky in the past, their view on the affair has changed as numerous allegations of sexual assault against men in Hollywood have surfaced in recent months. 
 
 Hillary’s communication director Jennifer Palmieri, who also worked for Bill’s administration, spoke out about the repercussions of the affair during an interview with MSNBC earlier this month. “Monica Lewinsky was my intern and the relationship the president had with her was very inappropriate,” Palmieri said. “It was a consensual relationship, but he was the President of the United States and she was a 24-year-old intern — that is taking advantage of a power dynamic on a historic scale.” 
 
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– In a new Vanity Fair essay, Monica Lewinsky reflects on her scandal with former President Clinton 20 years ago, opening with a chance encounter in late 2017 that rattled her. While at a Manhattan restaurant, she ran into none other than Kenneth Starr, the special investigator who turned her into a household name in 1998. This, surprisingly, was the first time Lewinsky had ever met him, and she describes his demeanor as "somewhere between avuncular and creepy." He asked multiple times if she was "doing OK" and kept touching her arm and elbow, "which made me uncomfortable." Then Lewinsky told him, in what she later realized was an attempt to elicit an apology, “Though I wish I had made different choices back then, I wish that you and your office had made different choices, too." Starr didn't apologize, however. He merely said, "I know. It was unfortunate." The anecdote precedes Lewinsky's revelation that she was diagnosed with PTSD several years ago, and she suggests the nation suffered a similar kind of trauma. "Both clinically and observationally, something fundamental changed in our society in 1998, and it is changing again as we enter the second year of the Trump presidency in a post-Cosby-Ailes-O’Reilly-Weinstein-Spacey-Whoever-Is-Next world," she writes. The nation lost its "capacity for mercy, measure, and perspective," and bitter partisan differences "settled in." Lewinsky adds that while she has previously described her relations with Clinton as consensual, she has come to realize that assessment is "complicated," given the "power imbalances" at play. She also reveals that a leader of the #MeToo movement expressed a sentiment in a private exchange that "undid" her: "I'm sorry you were so alone." (Read the full essay.)