{"id":119313,"date":"2025-02-21T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/21\/monica-lewinsky-wants-taylor-swift-on-her-new-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:02:02","slug":"monica-lewinsky-wants-taylor-swift-on-her-new-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/21\/monica-lewinsky-wants-taylor-swift-on-her-new-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica Lewinsky wants Taylor Swift on her new podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-21\/Getty_monicalewinskytaylorswift_022125.jpg\" alt><figcaption>L-Monica Lewinsky; Steve Granitz\/FilmMagic; R- Taylor Swift; Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>&#8216;s schedule has eased up a bit, perhaps she can carve out some time to appear on a podcast. No, not her boyfriend <strong>Travis Kelce&#8217;<\/strong>s <em>New Heights<\/em> &#8212; another one called <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/reclaiming-with-monica-lewinsky\/id1791132317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Reclaiming<\/strong><\/a>, hosted by<strong> Monica Lewinsky<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on <em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/em> on Thursday, the former White House intern turned advocate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9PRYHCXCJk0?t=436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>said that<\/strong><\/a> Taylor would be her dream podcast guest.\u00a0 &#8220;I think that if I aim really high, I would say Taylor Swift,&#8221; Lewinsky told Colbert. &#8220;Get in line,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, exactly, I know,&#8221; she agreed. &#8220;But I think, particularly for the podcast,\u00a0because if you think about &#8216;Taylor\u2019s Versions,&#8217; it\u2019s really a reclamation. To lose your music catalogue and to figure out a way to get that back as your voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewinsky &#8212; whose relationship with then-President <strong>Bill Clinton<\/strong> turned into a worldwide scandal in 1998 &#8212; and Taylor do have something else common: They were both publicly humiliated, and had to fight to gain back their reputations.<\/p>\n<p>For Lewinsky, the #MeToo movement was one of those &#8220;shifts in culture&#8221; that helped her, as she told Colbert. &#8220;We now have a vernacular for things like bullying, slut-shaming, fat-shaming,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;We didn\u2019t have names for that before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9PRYHCXCJk0\" title='Monica Lewinsky On \"Reclaiming\" What Was Lost, And Why Taylor Swift Should Guest On Her Podcast' frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L-Monica Lewinsky; Steve Granitz\/FilmMagic; R- Taylor Swift; Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic) Since Taylor Swift&#8216;s schedule has eased up a bit, perhaps she can carve out some time to appear on a podcast. No, not her boyfriend Travis Kelce&#8217;s New Heights &#8212; another one called Reclaiming, hosted by Monica Lewinsky. 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