The former White House intern and Bill Clinton mistress has embraced her past in a big way, becoming the ambassador to anti-bullying organization Bystander Revolution.
"Imagine that you've gone through this horrific, life-changing experience and you were traumatized and humiliated and all of a sudden you realized one day that you could actually help other people because you had survived it," she says in a new interview with "Good Morning America." "It would just be really hard to sit back and remain silent."
Lewinsky, now 42, has already written posts for Vanity Fair and delivered speeches that garnered standing ovations. She definitely knows what's up.
"Even though I have suffered from shame, I'm not ashamed of who I am," she adds -- while admitting she "usually uses another name" for things like ordering pizza or setting up a job interview.
"I've had my challenges over the years with those kinds of things," she continues. "I think it is -- it's taken skill and a lot of help from incredible professionals to learn to manage not only my own trauma, but I also think to manage other people's expectations."
She says the tide has definitely changed in her favor though.
"What's great is people used to come up to me and they would say, 'No offense. But do you know who you look like?' And now, I have people engaging with me about my Bystander Revolution work or the Vanity Fair essay, the TED talk," she happily reveals. "It's a different experience."
As for Hillary Clinton's Presidential bid, she'll only say this:
"You know, I think it's really wonderful that we have two women from both parties running for higher office. However it may affect me personally is not something I'm going to talk about today."
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