Monica Lewinsky will always be remembered as the White House intern who "swallowed" the evidence of President Bill Clinton's infidelity, which almost broke the marriage of the first family. Had it happened today, the story would have broken instead the Internet.

After hiding from the public for almost two decades, at one point even living in UK where she acquired a degree in social psychology at the London School of Economics, Lewinsky is back in the public eye and wants to be the poster girl of cyberbullying, claiming she was patient zero.

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Because of her affair with Bill Clinton, she was called all names - from a slut to a whore - and was the favorite joke of late night shows.

Lewinsky admits, "I made mistakes - especially wearing that beret - but the attention and judgement that I received ... was unprecedented," quotes NYmag.com from her Thursday TED Talk.

Her speech at Ted Talk was preceded by public sightings such as watching a performance of a play titled "Slut" in Manhattan, appearances at a benefit hosted by the Norman Mailer and joining an anti-bullying workshop at the Horace Mann School.

In an interview with New York Times, Lewinsky recalled a man 14 years younger than her who made a pass after her speech at Forbes.

Lewinsky admits, "He could make me feel 22 again. Later that night, I realized: I'm probably the only person over 40 who would not like to be 22 again."

She shared that the trauma she went through doesn't go away with the snap of the fingers. "It lives as an echo in your life. But over time the echo becomes softer and softer," she adds.

Lewinsky recalled the ordeal of turning overnight from a private citizen to a "publicly humiliated one," which made it difficult for her to go out in public.

When asked what she hopes to accomplish with her TED Talk, Lewinsky pointed to a book titled "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. The book has a chapter on suffering and the story of a girl who survived abuse.

She believes that in sharing her story of abuse, she could contribute the most to today's culture where cyberbullying is commonplace.

"That in someone else's darkest moment, lodged in their subconscious might be the knowledge that there was someone else who was, at one point in time, the most humiliated person in the world And that she survived it," she said.

Ironically, Lewinsky's return to the public eye comes at a time that the woman she had scorned, Hillary Clinton, could possibly return to the White House and remind her again of what happened when she was 22.

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