Beyoncé captivated audiences with her sneak attack release of her self-title album last December, and with all the raunchy lyrics it contained.
Everybody seems to be a fan–including former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, whose name was brought up in the song “Partition,” which naturally referenced the messy details of her 1998 affair with President Bill Clinton.
“Now my mascara running/Red lipstick smudged/Oh he so horny/Yeah he want to f**k/He popped all my buttons and he ripped my blouse/He Monica Lewinsky-ed all on my gown,” the wife of rapper Jay Z boldly crooned. Now, Lewinsky is coming out of her London hiding to break the silence on the affair and to allow Mrs. Carter to get her semen-spewing facts right.
In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, the now 40-year-old Lewinsky saluted the superstar singer with the nod but still noted, “Thanks, Beyoncé, but if we’re verbing, I think you meant ‘Bill Clinton’d all on my gown,’ not ‘Monica Lewinsky’d.”
After being the butt of jokes for more than a decade, it should be expected that she would be able to make light of the situation.
Which, she explains her reasoning for breaking her silence.
The 2010 incident of a Rutgers freshman male committing suicide after being outed as homosexual aligned with her own story, as she too battled bouts of depression that edged her near the brink of taking her own life.
“[My mother] was reliving 1998, when she wouldn’t let me out of her sight,” she continued. “She was replaying those weeks when she stayed by my bed, night after night, because I, too, was suicidal. The shame, the scorn, and the fear that had been thrown at her daughter left her afraid that I would take my own life—a fear that I would be literally humiliated to death.
Read the rest of the article over at Vanity Fair here.
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