Monica Lewinsky, 30, says she feels betrayed by Bill Clinton’s failure to acknowledge how he destroyed her life in his newly released memoirs.In an interview with British broadcaster ITV to be shown on Friday, the former White House intern best known for her affair with the 42nd US President says she was disappointed at how their relationship is addressed.‘‘I didn’t expect him to talk about the relationship,’’ she said, according to a transcript of the interview. ‘‘But what I was hoping, and did expect was for him to acknowledge and correct the inaccurate and false statements he, his staff and the (Democratic National Committee) made about me when they were trying to protect the presidency,’’ she said.In response to Clinton’s remark to US News show 60 Minutes that he had the affair ‘‘for the worst possible reason — because I could,’’ Lewinsky said she ‘‘was upset’’ when she first heard it. ‘‘I have spent the past several years working hard to move on, and try and build a life for myself,’’ said Lewinsky. She said she spoke out about Clinton’s tome My Life because he tried to rewrite history. ‘‘He says he was proud of the way that he defended the presidency, at my expense,’’ she said.‘‘In the process he destroyed me, and that was the way he was going to have to do that, to get through impeachment,’’ Lewinsky added. ‘‘I was a young girl and to hear him saying some of the things he was saying today — it’s a shame.’’Lewinsky insists during the ITV interview that she had a relationship with Clinton even though he never uses the word in the book, instead opting for ‘‘inappropriate encounter’’ on page 773 of the 957-page autobiography.‘‘This is something that I never wanted to talk about publicly and I know he wished had never become public. But this was a mutual relationship, from the way it started all the way through,’’ Lewinsky said. — (Reuters)
