Nearly two decades after Bill Clinton's shocking affair, Monica Lewinsky is telling her side and putting rumors to rest. She was inspired to "burn the beret and bury the blue dress."
"I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened," it reads.
Aside from speaking with Barbara Walters around the time of the scandal, Lewinsky stayed mum on details of the highly-publicized affair.
"So silent, in fact, that the buzz in some circles has been that the Clintons must have paid me off; why else would I have refrained from speaking out? I can assure you that nothing could be further from the truth," she explains.
"I turned down offers that would have earned me more than $10 million, because they didn't feel like the right thing to do."
The Huffington Post states the former White House intern was inspired to come forward after Tyler Clementi, 18, commited suicide after video of him kissing a man was put online. She feels this could help victims of cyberbullying.
"[T]hanks to the Drudge Report, I was also possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet," Lewinsky stated.
The incident was too close to home for her and her mother, who viciously protected her in the aftermath.
"She was reliving 1998, when she wouldn't let me out of her sight. She was replaying those weeks when she stayed by my bed, night after night, because I, too, was suicidal," Lewinsky spoke of her mother.
"The shame, the scorn, and the fear that had been thrown at her daughter left her afraid that I would take my own life-a fear that I would be literally humiliated to death," she added.
The full memoir will be available online on May 8, and the print version hits stands May 13.
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