Hillary Clinton reveals it’s still hard for her to talk about Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky

Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, which eventually to his impeachment by the House of Representatives, was the talk of the town in the late 90s. But even after more than a decade after the incident. Hillary Clinton still finds it hard to talk about the whole thing.

But of course, she agreed to talk about it when the director of the four-part “Hillary” documentary asked her to. “I said OK, and yet when it actually came time, yeah, it’s hard,” Hillary Clinton told Ellen DeGeneres, the New York Post reported.

Hillary Clinton said that staying married to Bill Clinton, despite all of the drama going around at that time, was a decision she never regretted. However, revisiting the event is still difficult for her even if it happened more than a decade ago.

“Staying in my marriage was the gutsiest personal decision I ever made,” Hillary revealed. “So for me, revisiting that, talking about it, for my husband also to agree to be in the film and also to be asked, made it a bit difficult, there’s no doubt about it.”

Even if revisiting the past might be unpleasant for her, Hillary knew that her husband’s affair needed to be covered in the documentary. “But you couldn’t actually do a film about my life and not cover something that everybody knew about because you could read about it, and everybody had an opinion about [it],” she explained.

Even some of her friends didn’t understand her decision to stay married to Bill despite what happened. “It’s fascinating because as you go through the film, some of the women who have been my friends and who have supported me personally and every other way, they talked about how so many women would be really upset because I chose to stay with my husband,” Hillary said.

Her decision probably resulted in some of them withdrawing their support for her. “And they would go and talk to these women. And a lot of the women would say, ‘I can’t support her, I don’t like her because she stayed with her husband’,” she added.

But for Hillary, it was the best decision she could make under the circumstances. “I always said everybody needs to make the best decision for you and your family,” she explained.