The anti-bullying advocate tells John Oliver that no one asked the former president if he’d consider a new identity.
John Oliver, host of HBO’s T, +0.24% “Last Week Tonight,” asked Lewinsky on Sunday evening about the difficulty getting a job after completing her Master of Science degree at the London School of Economics in 2006, and asked her if she ever considered changing her name. ‘Bill Clinton didn’t have to change his name. Nobody’s ever asked him if he thinks he should change his name.
Lewinsky said it was sexist that the scandal was named after her rather than Clinton. “As hard as it has been to have that last name sometimes, and the pain that I have felt that what it’s meant for the other people in my family who have that last name, I am glad I didn’t change it,” she added. But Lewinsky also said there may have been an upside to Facebook FB, -3.65% and Twitter existing in 1998 when her relationship with Clinton became public. “I might have heard some support from some people,” she said. “It would have been more balanced.”
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