Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky had a sexual relationship that began in November 1995, during a government shutdown, when she was a 22-year-old White House intern. It continued, on and off, into 1997. [1]
When the story broke in January 1998, Clinton wagged a finger at the cameras: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” Seven months later, after testifying to a grand jury, he told the country the relationship was “not appropriate” and said: “I misled people, including even my wife. I deeply regret that.” [2][3]
In 2018 Lewinsky wrote that she had long described it as consensual but had come to see the gulf in power between a president and an intern differently. She did not say she had been assaulted. She wrote that the gap in power between a president and an intern might make the question of consent beside the point. [4]
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