Article written by Matt Margolis in "PJMedia":
If you ever wanted to know exactly why Bill Clinton had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, he's got an explanation for you now.
The
42nd president reveals in the forthcoming Hulu documentary "Hillary"
that he had the affair because it helped to "manage my anxieties,"
resulting from the pressures of the presidency. His affair, he claims,
was a distraction from those pressures.
"You
feel like you're staggering around, you've been in a 15-round prize
fight that was extended to 30 rounds and here's something that will take
your mind off it for a while, that's what happens," he said. "Because
there, whatever life — not just me. Everybody's life has pressures and
disappointments, terrors, fears of whatever. Things I did to manage my
anxieties for years. I'm a different, totally different person than I
was, a lot of that stuff 20 years ago," he said.
"What
I did was bad but it wasn't like: how can I think about the most stupid
thing I could and do it," he added. "It's not a defense, it's an
explanation. I feel awful."
The former president also expressed regret for how the scandal impacted Monica Lewinsky.
"I
feel terrible about the fact that Monica Lewinsky's life was defined by
it, unfairly, I think," he said. "Over the years I've watched her
trying to get a normal life back again, but you've got to decide how to
define normal."
The documentary will premier on Friday, March 6, 2020. It will feature
campaign footage from 2016, as well as exclusive interviews with Bill
Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, friends and journalists, and the twice-failed
presidential candidate herself.