Last week, the trailer for Impeachment: American Crime Story dropped. The show follows the dramatic events that led up to Bill Clinton's impeachment, which included his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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Sarah Burgess, who wrote the script, told the Hollywood Reporter that she initially excluded a scene where Monica flashes her thong to President Clinton, out of concern for "retraumatizing Monica."
The moment she's referring to is depicted in the original 1998 Starr Report, which details the nature of Bill and Monica's relationship. The report reads:
"At one point, Ms. Lewinsky and the President talked alone in the Chief of Staff's office. In the course of flirting with him, she raised her jacket in the back and showed him the straps of her thong underwear, which extended above her pants."
However, Monica insisted that it should be included in the show.
“Listen, I would’ve loved to have been really selfish and said, ‘That’s great that you guys think we don’t have to show that, fantastic,’ but I’m incredibly experienced in understanding how people see this story,” Monica told THR.
"So, ultimately, I felt two things: One was that I shouldn’t get a pass because I’m a producer; and two, that it was unfair to the team and to the project because it would leave everybody vulnerable," she added.
“If I feel comfortable with people, I have no problem talking about anything, and I also knew that the deeper I dug, the more valuable it was."
