Monica Lewinsky has claimed she was the world 's first cyberbullying victim after she was 'humiliated worldwide ' because of her affair with Bill Clinton . She is pictured above at the Forbes Under 30 Summit last year . Monica Lewinsky has told a Norwegian conference that she became the world 's first cyberbullying victim after her affair with Bill Clinton was exposed . The 41-year-old said she believes the rising popularity of Google in the same year that the affair came to light led to her life being destroyed by online trolls in a way others had not experienced . She told a crowd at the Marie Høeg Conference that she went from being an anonymous person to being 'humiliated worldwide ' in just 24 hours . 'What happened to me was that I lost my entire reputation , ' she told The Local . ' I lost myself and the whole world was given a picture of me that I did not recognise at all . 'There is immeasurable humiliation . It is the feeling that the whole world is laughing at you . I just thought I would die . ' Ms Lewinsky 's comments were made a week before she is due to give a TED talk on cyberbullying . The former White House intern shot to fame when her affair with Clinton was uncovered in 1998 . Clinton , then 49 , initially denied their relationship but Ms Lewinsky , then 22 , confirmed it had been sexual . While Clinton , who was president from 1993 to 2001 , was fined for giving a false testimony Ms Lewinsky became a household name – and the butt of countless late-night jokes . A decade later she penned an explosive tell-all article for Vanity Fair about the Clinton scandal , describing her relationship with the married president as 'consensual ' . She also spoke at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in October last year where she told the crowd : 'Sixteen years ago , fresh out of college I fell in love with my boss . Ms Lewinsky was just 22 when she and then-President Bill Clinton began an affair that would deeply affect both of their futures . Picture taken in November 1995 . A picture on a signed card to Ms Lewinsky shows Clinton posing with her in the Oval Office of the White House in 1997 . ' I [ then ] lost my public self , or had it stolen . Of course , it was all done on the excruciatingly slow dial up . Yet around the world this story went . 'It was a viral phenomenon that , you could argue , was the first moment of truly `` social media . '' ' Ms Lewinsky said she was inspired to speak out after a gay student at Rutgers University committed suicide days after his roommate secretly filmed him kissing another man . She is hoping that publicizing her story will lead to people thinking twice about humiliating and trolling others online . Clinton famously said he 'did not have sexual relations ' with Ms Lewinsky when she claimed they had had relations nine times between 1995 and 1997 . Above , the pair are pictured greeting each other at a White House lawn party in November 1996 .
41-year-old told conference in Norway that she was 'humiliated worldwide ' Former White House intern 's affair with Bill Clinton was uncovered in 1998 . Launched a campaign against cyberbullying after she was ridiculed .