Monica Lewinsky’s Unlikely Best Friend Is Star Of ‘The Good Wife’
The Good Wife’s Alan Cumming may play a quick thinking campaign manager on the CBS drama, who would cross the street to avoid the likes of Monica Lewinsky, but in real life the two are actually really good friends.
Cumming revealed the unlikely friendship when he attended Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live! Like any two famous figures, the two met at a party, but instead of saying hello and parting ways, the two stayed very good friends.
Of his first run in with Monica Lewinsky, the Cabaret star told Cohen, “We met at a party about 16 years ago — this Marie Claire party. They’d done a thing about her and I’d done an article for Marie Claire and we were at the same table. [We] went for dinner and we just stayed friends.”
So what is Bill Clinton’s former mistress like in real life? According to The Good Wife star, he has nothing but praise for the former White House intern.
“She is really one of the kindest, most loyal, loving, tender, funny girls I’ve known. I think she’s really one of my best friends. She’s been at my wedding, she knows my family. She’s lovely.”
If you remember 16 years ago Lewinsky was in the middle of one of the biggest scandals. Not only that, but SNL was making a living off of covering President Bill Clinton’s infidelity and his impeachment. She probably could have used a friend like Alan Cumming back then.
Flash forward to present day and it’s been a huge year for Monica. She’s come out of hiding since her name was smeared and penned a widely publicized column for Vanity Fair about her experience during and after the limelight.
Earlier this week she made headlines again when she joined Twitter. Her first tweet was retweeted 4.2k times.
— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) October 20, 2014
These days she describes herself as a social activist and a public speaker. She got a head start on both roles when she attended Forbes’ Under 30 Summit to speak about cyber bullying. Naming herself one of the first victims of this bullying mentality, Lewinsky addressed the audience at the summit.
“The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet… Having survived myself, what I want to do now is help other victims of the shame game survive, too. I want to put my suffering to good use and give purpose to my past.”
Of Lewinsky’s sudden prominence, Cumming told Cohen, “To actually try and hide and not be a part, not be in the world, was so difficult and was so kind of frustrating for her, that she was just like, ‘Hey everybody, this is what my life’s like. I’ve learned some great lessons about it and I would like to share them with people.'”
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