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Monica tells British she regrets 'the entire relationship'March 5, 1999 LONDON (AllPolitics, March 5) -- Monica Lewinsky told a British TV audience Thursday she once thought of President Bill Clinton as a brilliant big-hearted man with a large "appetite for love," but now regrets she ever met him. "The days, and there are many, when I don't have very warm feelings for the president, I regret the entire relationship and ever having met him," she told Jon Snow of Britain's ITN Channel 4.
Lewinsky is in Europe touting her book "Monica's Story," written by Princess Diana biographer Andrew Morton. The book hit store shelves Thursday following the playing of her taped ABC interview with Barbara Walters Wednesday night. In the ITN interview, Lewinsky reminisced about when, as a White House intern, she first saw Clinton in person and "it sort of took my breath away." She described what she calls the magnetism of the "the full Bill Clinton." "He looks at you and he locks eyes with you and he sort of peels away the layers of your being with his eyes and with his energy and his spirit, and it's very intense," said Lewinsky. She said the person she thought Clinton was when they were together -- as opposed to now -- was "a brilliant man who had a very big heart." "He was very kind -- not necessarily nice, but kind -- a person who had large sort of appetite for love, and I don't mean in a sort of crude sense." Their relationship even extended, she said, to what she believed was the possibility of marriage. She said when they were together on July 4, 1997, he said he wished he had more time for her. "And I said, well, maybe he will in three years, thinking he doesn't have all the responsibilities of being president, he'll have some more time on his hands," she said. "And he said, 'Oh, well, I might be alone in three years. I don't know.' And I was quite surprised to hear that," said Lewinsky. As she did in the Walters interview, Lewinsky evoked some of her fond memories of her relationship with Clinton, acknowledging that for a time she was in love with him but saying her feelings now are quite different. When she sees him on TV, she said, "Sometimes I hate him; sometimes I turn the channel quickly." "Right now," Lewinsky said, "I can think of a few other people I can spend an evening with than him." |
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MORE STORIES:Friday, March 5, 1999
• Lewinsky book may force investigation of Starr's office • Poll: Bush tops Gore in hypothetical 2000 race • Clinton wishes Lewinsky well • Transcript: Clinton comments on Lewinsky book deal • Poll: Public remains unsympathetic to Lewinsky • Paula Jones' lawyers get lion's share of $850,000 settlement • Clinton to nominate civil rights chief for Senate confirmation • Sen. Connie Mack won't seek re-election • 'Mob Mouthpiece' enters Las Vegas mayoral race • Biography on Gore details struggles during impeachment • Three-story Lichtenstein sculpture to go up in D.C. • Democrats boycott Alabama Senate • Idea for school flexibility tangled in competing agendas • DeLay says he did not commit perjury in deposition • Democrats hit GOP plan for fiscal 2000 budget • Federal judge throws out Louisiana law on late-term abortion • Monica's career may benefit from scandal • New Hampshire takes step toward income tax • Cohen's wife interviews Clinton • Tripp demands apology from Moran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
