Hillary Clinton said revisiting her husband’s affair with then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky was “a bit difficult.”
The former secretary of state opened about the struggles in her marriage to former President Bill Clinton, 73, in a four-part documentary for Hulu, which is set for release in March. Clinton, 72, said it wasn’t an option to not speak about the affair because it was “something that everybody knew about because you could read about it, and everybody had an opinion about [it].”
“It was a really emotionally draining experience to go through it again, but I have to say, once I saw the whole four hours of the documentary, I hope that our talking about this, my willingness to address all of this, really does help other people,” she told Ellen DeGeneres in an interview Thursday.
“People need to be thoughtful about the decisions they make in their own lives, and we should be kinder and more supportive to everybody who makes the best decisions that they think they can make,” she added.
Her husband also speaks about his affair with Lewinsky, 46, in the series, according to the trailer.
“It wasn’t like I thought, ‘How can I think about the most stupid thing I could possibly do and do it?’” the former president said.
The affair led to his impeachment in 1998 and fueled criticism of the then-first lady for staying in their marriage.
“Staying in my marriage was the gutsiest personal decision I ever made,” she said. “So for me, revisiting that, talking about it, for my husband also to agree to be in the film and then also to be asked, made it a bit difficult, there’s no doubt about it.”
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