Her ex-boyfriend Andy Bleilermade realized that he could make famous by involving himself in the situation. He made a statement that damaged Monica’s image and claimed that she was definitely a woman that would sell her soul just to become famous.

Trying To Move On

The controversies made her doubt that she would ever be able to start a proper professional career again. She never got married and likely had to deal with men who didn’t want to handle the pressure of being with someone with such a stained reputation.

After being ruthlessly attacked and ridiculed for her involvement in the inappropriate activities that soon went public when the evidence mounted, she tried to move on with her life. She attempted her hand at various other occupations such as being a fashion designer. The fashion designer path was a rough start for her because of the clothing evidence in the Clinton incident. There was a blue dress that she wore which had Bill Clinton’ ejaculated semen on it. The evidence became the butt of the media’s jokes, specifically comedy sketch shows like Saturday Night Live. When she decided to launch her own fashion designs, the entertainment world could not wait to jump on her for that decision.

She decided to go back to school to pursue a Master’s Degree in Psychology from London. In a statement in released in 2014, she expressed regret and wished that she wouldn’t have made the mistakes that she did.

Questioning Female Empowerment

In an interview with The Guardian, Monica spoke about how hurt she was that females were also on the side of attacking her during the sex scandal, I think it’s fair to say that whatever mistakes I made, I was hung out to dry by a lot of people, by a lot of the feminists who had loud voices. I wish it had been handled differently. It was very scary and very confusing to be a young woman thrust on to the world stage and not belonging to any group. I didn’t belong to anybody.”

She also spoke about cyberbullying and how no group or single person can be immune from it, “It’s very easy to get micro, especially when someone is telling you a personal story that’s gutting. And it’s important to highlight which groups experience cyberbullying the most. But this is an umbrella problem, and under this umbrella sit many people who suffer online harassment for many different reasons. Don’t bully the bully. It doesn’t move the conversation forward. I see bullying as similar to cutting. People who cut are trying to localize their pain. I think with bullying, people are suffering for myriad reasons and are projecting it. Instead of cutting themselves, they’re cutting someone else.”

She wants the public to try to change the media narrative by avoiding the urge to click on shaming stories but she realizes that sometimes it’s human nature to click on those type of things, “Because of the way the algorithm of the internet works, we do have some control. Editors aren’t going to assign stories that aren’t going to get clicks. But then she confesses that she sometimes clicks on those exciting stories, too.