Monica Lewinsky said that she initially didn’t realize a semen stain was left behind on her dress from her hook-up with then-President Bill Clinton, a dress she then wore out to dinner.
“I went to dinner that night. None of these people said to me, ‘Hey, you’ve got to go to the bathroom, you’ve got stuff all over your dress,’” Lewinsky said in the new A&E series, “The Clinton Affair,” according to the New York Post.
In her testimony in 1998, Lewinsky said she thought the marks on her dress “could be spinach dip or something.”
In the series, Lewinsky chronicles the events leading up to the soiling of her dress, saying that Clinton invited her to a White House radio address and said he had a present for her.
After the famous photo op, where Lewinsky is wearing the infamous navy blue dress, Clinton told her that his personal secretary Betty Currie had something for her.
“[Currie] brought me into the Oval Office and all three of us went into the back study, and she went into the dining room to hide there,” Lewinsky said. “Because the illusion to everyone else was that I was not alone with him.”
The present Clinton gave Lewinsky was a copy of “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman and a hat pin, which he got for her because he said she looked good in hats, Lewinsky remembered.
Lewinsky said that she and the then-president moved to the bathroom where they became intimate for the first time since she was moved to the Pentagon, which she believed was to distance her from Clinton leading up to the 1996 presidential election.
“There was some attention paid on me and then I was reciprocating, where up until that point he had always stopped before completion on his part,” said Lewinsky. “I sort of stood up and said I wanted to move past that stage and so he finally said OK.”
Lewinsky said this was the moment where the dress become stained without her realizing it.
“The Clinton Affair” is a six-part series that will air starting Sunday, Nov. 18.
