Bill Clinton opens up about apologizing to Monica Lewinsky: ‘I live with it all the time’

Get caught having an affair with an intern and using the White House for your illegal contacts, and it turns out it will haunt you for the rest of your life.

In his new memoir, former President Bill Clinton details his frustration when questioned about the relationship years later and admits he never apologized directly to Monica Lewinsky.

Clinton, now 78, was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998 when it emerged that he had lied about a sexual relationship with the then 22-year-old.

In “Citizen,” out next week, he writes about a 2018 interview on NBC’s “Today Show,” in which he admits he was “blown away” by questions on the subject.

According to The Guardianwho received a copy, he expected to talk about a new novel he had co-written with thriller writer James Patterson.

But host Craig Melvin brought up the #MeToo movement and asked if the affair would now be a resigned issue.

Clinton said no and emphasized that he had to fight against an unlawful impeachment.

Melvin then quoted a column by Lewinsky about how the #MeToo movement had changed her views on sexual harassment and whether Clinton felt differently today.

A photo showing former White House intern Monica Lewinsky meeting with President Bill Clinton at a White House function submitted as evidence in documents by the Starr investigation and released by the House Judicary Committee on September 21 1998

Clinton’s new memoir will be published Tuesday

“I said, ‘No, I felt terrible then,’” Clinton writes.

“Have you ever apologized to her?” I said I apologized to her and to everyone else I had wronged. I was blown away by what came next.

“But you haven’t apologized to her, at least not according to the people we talked to.”

“I fought to contain my frustration as I responded that while I had never spoken to her directly, I had said so publicly on more than one occasion. [one] One time I felt sorry.”

He further admits that the interview “wasn’t my finest hour,” but can’t resist criticizing Melvin, writing that he “was barely in his teens when all this happened, and he was probably not well informed.”

And he admits that anger is best reserved for what happens to other people, rather than to yourself.

“I live with it all the time,” he says.

“Monica has done a lot of good and important work in her campaign against bullying in recent years, and has earned her well-deserved recognition in the United States and abroad. I wish her nothing but the best.”

Three years after the interview with Clinton, Lewinsky himself said that there was no need for him to apologize for that, but that he should be willing to apologize for what he did.