Bill Clinton downplays ill-tempered NBC interview on Monica Lewinsky, says he ‘got hot under the collar’ (BI)

Bill Clinton has rowed back on an interview in which he lashed out at an interviewer who was grilling him over the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

On Monday, the former US president told Craig Melvin, an anchor at NBC’s “Today” programme that “you, typically, have ignored gaping facts in describing” the scandal, and that he was “giving one side” of the story.

Melvin had quoted a Vanity Fair essay by Lewinsky, in which she said that the #MeToo movement led her to look at her relationship with the former president through a new lens, and to conclude that the affair was a “gross abuse of power” on Clinton’s part. Read more