Monica Lewinsky is a survivor – Aftonbladet

She seems so strong, so lets confident there on the stage. She smiles and joking in a pretty floral print dress and her voice carries all the time:

“When I was 22, I was in love with my boss. At 24, I learned the consequences. “

It’s Monica Lewinsky talking and her boss was no ordinary manager. He was the US president and Monica herself, who is in Stockholm to receive the prize for their work on internet hate, has since struggled to regain his life. Specifically, since 1999, when the world’s most famous infidelity scandal exploded.

Monica Lewinsky talking as a survivor. Maybe it’s just that she is.

When it was at its worst, when she was feeling worst, her mother sat by her bed every night. Her parents wanted her to shower with the door open, they were afraid that she would not manage more.

“I lost everything. My reputation, my dignity, almost my life, “says Monica, looking out over us in the audience.

On Skandia theater this Friday afternoon, she is met only by the heat and standing ovations. But then, seventeen years ago, she was “that woman”. A whore, a bimbo. Thick. Ugly. Stupid. Portrayed on the internet, as the victim of a cyber-bullying of gigantic and devastating proportions.

Monica says that not a day passes without her thinking of her mistake.

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for ten years she lived under the radar. She went into therapy – all forms of therapy – was studying in England and graduated with a degree in social psychology but found no job. There was no one who wanted to hire her.

Now she has taken power over their past and lectures worldwide. Yesterday India, today Stockholm, tomorrow London.

And we should be happy about it. We should be very grateful to Monica Lewinsky survived because she has important things to say.

As the message to those who do not know if they have the energy to fight.

“Keep out, you survive. Your story can get a different end. “

Monica Lewinsky, who had reached 42 years old, was in Stockholm yesterday to receive business network Klara K’s Penguin Price and to participate in a seminar if näthat. She did not meet the press and not let themselves be photographed. She answered all questions on stage except one: Who will win the presidential election in the fall? I understand her.