Monica Lewinsky Breaks Her 'Silence"?

I have absolutely nothing against her, but I actually don't recall Monica Lewinsky ever being "silent" about her relationship with President Clinton. Weren't there a multi-part Barbara Walters interview, a Time magazine cover and a memoir about the affair, among other things? If she stopped talking, well, it just seemed like there was nothing left to say there. But anyway, she apparently doesn't see it that way, penning a lengthy piece in the new Vanity Fair. As tiresome as this may seem I did find it interesting to learn which news event had inspired her to go public again:

A 1999 cover subject

NYT writes:

Ms. Lewinsky writes that she was compelled to break her silence by the story of Tyler Clementi, a gay Rutgers University student who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge in 2010 after his roommate set up a webcam to record him in an encounter with another man, inviting Twitter followers to watch. The story brought Ms. Lewinsky’s mother back to 1998 and left her distraught, she says. “She was replaying those weeks when she stayed by my bed, night after night, because I, too, was suicidal,” Ms. Lewinsky writes. “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.” The full 4,300-word essay, taking up six and a half pages in the magazine, will be released on Thursday.

Read Vanity Fair's excerpt HERE.