Piers Morgan Says Monica Lewinsky Is 'Not Blameless' In Her Bill Clinton Cheating Scandal

By Kat Ernst (kat.ernst@mstarsnews.com) | Oct 21, 2014 04:32 PM EDT

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Oh, how we love a good celebrity debate! In recent news, Monica Lewinsky has resurfaced in the media after 13 years from her famed White House scandal with former President Bill Clinton, and Piers Morgan claims she isn't blameless.

In the Forbes Under 30 Summit, Lewinsky spoke to the public regarding her 1995 sexual encounters with the then sitting president, which involved fellation and other sexual acts in the Oval Office, which ultimately led to Clinton's impeachment.

But her speech has not gone without criticism from journlaist Piers Morgan.

Lewinsky states she considers herself "patient zero" in regards to the current forms of cyberbullying in which she believes, "[I was] the first person to have their reputation completley destroyed worldwide via the Internet."

Morgan -no stranger to celebrity feuds and voicing his opinion- states, "I fear the egg has rather raced past the chicken here," Morgan wrote in a Mail Online column about Lewinsky's stance that the Internet shamed her. "If you're a 22-year-old intern working at the White House and you embark on an affair with your married president, then most people would probably say the shame-o-meter probably starts right there and then."

Lewinsky told an audience in Philadelphia Monday, Oct. 20, that her new mission in life was to end cyberbullying, saying, "My own suffering took on a differen meaning. Perhaps by sharing my story, I reasoned, I might be able to help others in their darkest moments of humiliation."

Let it be known that Morgan does agree that Lewinsky is "100 percent right" when it comes to the epidemic of cyeberbullying, but he believes Lewinsky's stil to blame for her own actions.

"It wasn't the Internet that shamed you, Monica — it was your predilection, like Bill Clinton's, for illicit cigar-fuelled lust in the world's most powerful room," Morgan wrote. "You were 22, not 16. And you both knew you were playing with the kind of fire that destroys forests in the Californian summer. He should shoulder the lion's share of responsibility because he was a much older man and, unlike you, he was married. But you're not blameless and in your heart, you know that."

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