Ah, Monica Lewinsky—back again, this time not at the center of a political scandal but as the guest of honor at George Clooney’s glittery Broadway premiere. Because, apparently, nothing says cultural redemption like being embraced by the same Hollywood elite that spent decades pretending they didn’t know who she was unless it was for a punchline. But don’t worry, we’re all supposed to politely forget why she’s famous in the first place.
In case anyone missed the memo: Monica’s big rebrand from “the intern” to “anti-bullying activist and podcast host” has gone into full swing. She’s now writing for Vanity Fair, showing up at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, launching her own podcast, and getting cozy with A-listers like Olivia Munn and John Mulaney.
It’s all very “empowerment,” very “reclaim your narrative,” and very on-brand for a Hollywood machine that specializes in turning notoriety into marketable virtue. The same industry that gave Roman Polanski a standing ovation now claps for Monica Lewinsky for simply surviving the consequences of her own decisions. Progress!
I wonder what goes through Hillary’s Clinton’s mind every time she sees Monica Lewinsky.
We know what goes through Bill Clinton’s mind. pic.twitter.com/a2oKLlVr2w
— 👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 (@TheEXECUTlONER_) April 7, 2025
Look, nobody is saying she deserved the national humiliation she went through—especially as a young woman caught in the orbit of a very powerful man with a very loose moral compass. But let’s not forget, she was a consenting adult who engaged in a completely inappropriate relationship with the sitting President of the United States.
And somehow, in the upside-down moral universe we’re now living in, she’s the one with a podcast about healing, while Bill Clinton is still working the speaker circuit and raking in book deals like nothing ever happened. There’s enough dysfunction to go around.
And now, according to her own words, Lewinsky feels that her scandal inflicted “collateral damage” on women everywhere. Really? Because from where a lot of Americans stand, the real damage came when the media, the Democrats, and Clinton’s defenders torched every norm, every rule of workplace power dynamics, and every scrap of feminist credibility to protect their golden boy. The same people who now scream about “believe all women” were very quiet when a young intern was being dragged across headlines so that a president could survive impeachment.
Let’s be honest—Lewinsky didn’t disappear from the public eye because people were cruel. She vanished because even she didn’t know how to spin the whole thing yet. But in 2017, the great cultural alchemy began: victimhood became currency. And Hollywood, ever the opportunist, welcomed her back not because it suddenly developed a conscience, but because she became useful. She fit the new narrative. And bonus points—she could still be used to dunk on Trump-era hypocrisy while everyone conveniently forgets who enabled the original scandal.
And now she’s out here explaining how 22-year-olds “think they’re on terra firma” while dating married bosses. That’s some revisionist history if ever there was. Sure, she couldn’t rent a car without a parent’s signature, but she knew exactly where the Oval Office was. There’s a difference between immaturity and victimhood. One deserves growth. The other deserves scrutiny.
Monica Lewinsky says former President Bill Clinton should’ve resigned from office after affair https://t.co/bIZu2L0Q2P pic.twitter.com/I9GCVsERVf
— New York Post (@nypost) February 26, 2025
So here we are, full circle. Monica Lewinsky, feted by the same elite class that once chewed her up, now draped in designer gowns and walking red carpets as a podcasting, power-dynamics-explaining cultural commentator. Meanwhile, middle America is still paying the price for the moral relativism that let her scandal slide under the rug. Hollywood loves a redemption arc—as long as it fits their narrative, sells streaming subscriptions, and allows them to act like the guardians of decency they’ve never actually been.
