Jon Ronson / The truth is I’m exhausted

 

‘It was a very desolate 10 years for me. I was really floundering. I could not find my way.’ Photograph: Steve Schofield

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Monica Lewinsky: ‘The truth is I’m exhausted’

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Nearly 20 years ago, Monica Lewinsky found herself at the heart of a political storm. Now she’s turned that dark time into a force for good

Jon Ronson
Friday 22 April 2016

One night in London in 2005, a woman said a surprisingly eerie thing to Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky had moved from New York a few days earlier to take a master’s in social psychology at the London School of Economics. On her first weekend, she went drinking with a woman she thought might become a friend. “But she suddenly said she knew really high-powered people,” Lewinsky says, “and I shouldn’t have come to London because I wasn’t wanted there.”