Bill Clinton writes about tense #MeToo-era interview in new memoir: 'Fought to contain my frustration'

Former President Bill Clinton’s caller memoir reportedly details his irritation astatine being questioned astir his infamous matter with Monica Lewinsky during an interrogation six years ago.

Lewinsky was a White House intern successful her aboriginal 20s during the Clinton medication erstwhile she became progressive with the president, starring to nationalist ridicule and an impeachment ungraded aft details of their matter were released.

The Guardian obtained a transcript of Clinton's caller memoir, "Citizen," which chronicles his beingness aft his presidency, including an awkward 2018 NBC interrogation that turned to the subject.

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Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. ( DOD/ Diana Walker/Getty Images)

During the interview, "Today Show" big Craig Melvin amazed Clinton by grilling him connected whether helium would resign if his ungraded had happened amid the 2018 #MeToo movement.

"The erstwhile president insisted nary because, helium reasoned, the impeachment was illegitimate and had to beryllium fought," The Guardian reported. "Then Melvin work from a Lewinsky file astir however the MeToo reckoning changed her presumption of intersexual harassment and asked if Clinton felt otherwise now."

The study went connected to punctuation an excerpt from the publication wherever Clinton wrote, "I said, ‘No, I felt unspeakable then.’ ‘Did you ever apologize to her?’ I said that I had apologized to her and everybody other I wronged. I was caught disconnected defender by what came next. ‘But you didn’t apologize to her, astatine slightest according to folks that we’ve talked to.’ I fought to incorporate my vexation arsenic I replied that portion I’d ne'er talked to her directly, I did accidental publically connected much than [one] juncture I was sorry."

According to The Guardian, "he was prepared to beryllium asked wherefore helium had not apologized to Lewinsky successful idiosyncratic but not to beryllium accused of not apologizing astatine all."

Clinton added that the interrogation "was not my finest hour," but nevertheless criticized the interviewer for having been "barely successful his teens erstwhile each this happened, and astir apt hadn’t been decently briefed."

"Regardless, it’s ever amended to prevention your choler for what happens to different people, not yourself," the erstwhile president reportedly added.

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A photograph showing erstwhile White House intern Monica Lewinsky gathering President Bill Clinton astatine a White House relation submitted arsenic grounds successful documents by the Starr probe and released by the House Judiciary Committee September 21, 1998. (Getty Images)

"I unrecorded with it each the time," Clinton wrote successful "Citizens" of the Lewinsky scandal, portion besides complimenting her enactment connected bullying. "I privation her thing but the best."

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In 2021, Lewinsky gave a candid interrogation arguing that the erstwhile president "should privation to apologize" successful the aforesaid mode that anyone who hurts different idiosyncratic done their words oregon actions should privation to marque amends.

Fox News' Tyler McCarthy contributed to this report