Monica Lewinsky, the 44-year-old motivational speaker who was the center of a bombshell scandal with former President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s, said she was uninvited from an event.
“Dear world: please don’t invite me to an event (esp one about social change) and—then after I’ve accepted—uninvite me because Bill Clinton then decided to attend/was invited,” she wrote, adding that “definitely don’t try to ameliorate the situation by insulting me with an offer of an article in your mag.”
Clinton apparently confirmed he would go to an event hosted by Town & Country magazine, NBC News reported.
The magazine later apologized. “We apologize to Ms. Lewinsky and regret the way the situation was handled,” it said in a tweet.
Clinton’s press secretary denied that the former president knew that Lewinsky was invited.
“President Clinton was invited to address the Town & Country Philanthropy Summit. He gladly accepted. Neither he nor his staff knew anything about the invitation or it being rescinded,” Angel Ureña wrote on Twitter.
In February, in light of the #metoo movement, Lewinksy wrote of the infamous affair: “Now, at 44, I’m beginning (just beginning) to consider the implications of the power differentials that were so vast between a president and a White House intern. I’m beginning to entertain the notion that in such a circumstance the idea of consent might well be rendered moot.”
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