Monica Lewinsky Back in Spotlight in New Clinton Documentary

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Monica Lewinsky has tried to keep a low profile after her role in President Bill Clinton's impeachment scandal, but she's become a trending topic of discussion again.

All thanks to PBS' two-part, four-hour documentary, titled Clinton.

The documentary, which premieres Monday as part of PBS' "American Experience" series, sheds new light on Clinton's Oval Office affair with his then-23-year-old intern through interviews with some of Clinton's closest advisers.

Some of whom had never spoken publicly about the affair until now.

Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton

Among the former White House staffers appearing on film are Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Clinton's former reelection campaign manager, Dick Morris.

In the film, Morris reveals, "When the Lewinsky scandal broke the President paged me and I returned the call. And he said to me, 'Ever since I got here to the White House I've had to shut my body down, sexually I mean."

"But I screwed up with this girl. I didn't do what they said I did, but I may have done so much that I can't prove my innocence.'"

Though she plays a huge role in the story of Bill Clinton's presidency, Monica Lewinsky herself was not interviewed for the movie. Producer Barak Goodman said that, “We felt it would tilt [the documentary] toward sensationalism.”

After the scandal, Lewinsky went through a period of alternately embracing and avoiding her celebrity, but in recent years has been off the media grid.

In 2005, she left the U.S. and moved to London, attending the London School of Economics and graduating with a masters in social psychology in 2006.

While she has given interviews on the subject, most notably in an HBO special titled "Monica in Black and White," she has kept an extremely low profile.

Clinton is the latest in a series of in-depth documentaries PBS has produced over the years focusing on the often tumultuous careers of U.S. presidents.

The TV premiere takes place Monday, but PBS has made the first part of the documentary available on its website. A trailer for the film appears below:

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    Roman Alsace-Lorraine

    I RESERVE MY GOLDEN FRANCO-GERMAN JEWISH HEART FOR MONICA LEWINSKY! I LOVE HER AND I PROPOSE TO MARRY HER AND/OR LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WITH HER OR NEAR TO HER. Email : romanalsacelorraine@yahoo.com

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    destiny rodriguez n what my man juelz means2me:)!

    Hey its destiny n when i heard about the reagan era i couldnt wait since dec 2010 to see what music realy means n feels like bein around family n what it is bein their when i heard about my manjuelz arrest i felt so bad about what da reagan era means to me anyhow in feb 2011 it really meant alot when i spoked to the people in nj i told them the letters 4 juelz to recieve 4 him cause hes what"ve been my type since then i mean since bein single since the times of the butterfies in jan 2007ive luvedhimsomuch!

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    destiny rodriguez so thicky thona 100%DR

    its destiny n speakn about the reagan era it really means and meant alot to me speaking about reagans previuos arrest it has meant alot to me wit the reagan era album i feel as though to da publist people who write n edit monica lewinsky tries to mean shes worth to be wifey and is meant more for bein wifey other than a somebody it doesnt make sense to me but The reagan era does deeply to me and to when it comes to family to kids and to us a women to a susan b athony its music dat comes from da heart&soul:)!

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    destiny rodriguez

    Well i cnt wait for the reagan era hes my type i luv dr and its what i want n like but music is about n is suppose to be an opinion its claled freedom of speech if anybody went to harvard so :O i kw i did cause im 100% DR since 1986 anyways i luv his dominican in him since before ive been a writer anyhow n for so !!!! its about the reagan era so anyways !!!! my cup of tea asi mida ta biene :)!!!!!

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    destiny rodriguez

    Well just to talk about reagan hes always been my type of guy especially bein dr ive always been a spokes writer for nyc but just writn about music ive always loved to but speakin of the reagn era well ive always loves to give the top but never recievn so :( i never liked the ridn on top sugar momma thery but bein destiny always me i like what i like that gonna turn me on but for the thought of music is what it is i honesty dnt care about but about him ive always wanted The regan era a real drso :O!!!!