Not by force, but because she needed the support when everyone else was completely going against her.”Īllison says that she, perhaps unconsciously, has built a life for herself that is the “polar opposite” from her mother’s-who spent many years as a workaholic braving a long commute. It was so heavy to have to deal with at that age…but I had to be there. “I tried my best to be there for her and support her. “As soon as she really started opening up to me about the heaviness of what was taking place, I was helpless feeling,” says Allison. And I’m glad she can financially gain and be a part of this after everything.” Lewinsky’s involvement in the series, which has helped resuscitate Linda’s reputation, has left Allison with “a lot of empathy towards her, and what she went through. Monica made these choices repeatedly and these were choices she and she alone would have to live with.” The question posed to my mom-‘Did you ever think what would become of Monica when all of this came to light?’-I feel this was never a fair question for my mom to have to answer. Monica was in a very compromised mental state pre-scandal and post-scandal. “I mean that wholeheartedly-when Monica was being strung along pre-scandal breaking and I mean it during the time when she was saying horrible things about my mom after the fact. But honestly, watching the show, I wanted to just kind of hug Monica and say, ‘You’ll be okay. You get sucked into the vortex of thinking something is normal when it’s so unhealthy.”Īllison is still careful to defend her mother’s decision to tape-record their conversations Linda felt, she says, “that documentation was her only way.” Explaining that she is a very different person than her mother, Allison adds, “I’m not going to even question the why, because I can’t at this point. “Now, as an adult-and as I’ve gone through tumultuous relationships myself-I can absolutely understand where she was as such a young person having to navigate that…. Watching the series, Allison found herself feeling for all the women involved-including Lewinsky.

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