20/20: MONICA LEWINSKY: IN HER OWN WORDS (TV)
Summary
One in this series of news magazines hosted by Barbara Walters. This edition features a one-on-one interview with Monica Lewinsky, the infamous White House intern who had a scandal-producing relationship with President Bill Clinton. Walters questions Lewinsky on such subjects as: Lewinsky being described as a "bimbo" and seductress; whether she should apologize to the country; her feelings about First Lady Hillary and daughter Chelsea Clinton; her childhood; Lewinsky's weight issues; her first affair with a married man while she was in high school; the first time she saw Bill Clinton; the "sensuality" of Clinton; the day Lewinsky showed the president her thong underwear; when she orally serviced the president; how she would sneak into the Oval Office for sexual liaisons; her Gap clothing store dress, on which Clinton ejaculated; Linda Tripp, a Pentagon employee and onetime friend of Lewinsky who secretly taped their phone conversations about Clinton; the investigation by Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr into Clinton's philandering; how Lewinsky eventually got "dumped" by Clinton; an astonishing admission that Clinton made to her; why she never had vaginal intercourse with Clinton; the legal issues in which she became embroiled; suicidal feelings that she experienced in the affair's aftermath; her attorney, William Ginsberg; how she fell out of love with Clinton; and what Lewinsky sees in her future. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: March 3, 1999 Wednesday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:55:57
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:56360
- GENRE: News
- SUBJECT HEADING: She Made It Collection (Barbara Walters); News; Presidents - United States; Infidelity; Talk/Interview
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1999
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - "EdTV" motion picture
- TV - Commercials - Centrum vitamins
- TV - Commercials - DiGiorno frozen pizza
- TV - Commercials - Flonase nasal medication
- TV - Commercials - Monster.com
- TV - Commercials - Salon Selectives shampoo
- TV - Commercials - Scotts turf builder
- TV - Commercials - Snackwell's cookies
CREDITS
- Martin Clancy … Producer
- Katie Nelson Thomson … Producer
- Thomas Berman … Producer
- John Kennedy … Producer
- Dennis O'Brien … Producer
- Chris Vlasto … Producer
- George Paul … Director
- Barbara Walters … Interviewer
- Bill Clinton
- Chelsea Clinton
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- William Ginsberg
- Monica Lewinsky
- Kenneth Starr
- Linda Tripp