Monica Lewinsky

former Presidental Mistress

TIME: What steps are you taking to put your life back together?

Lewinsky: I think probably the biggest step that I am taking is trying to work on myself in therapy. It's hard. It's painful.

TIME: You have been praying from time to time?

Lewinsky: I think, for me, my definition of praying might be a little different. I think, for me, in some ways therapy is sort of praying. It's like what you learn in therapy and what you walk away with. You kind of think to yourself, oh, I really hope that I can learn to assimilate. But I'm not very religious.

from "My Story: Exclusive interview and photos of Monica Lewinsky", TIME magazine, March 15, 1999, p. 36.

--ABe