Piers Morgan has slammed Monica Lewinsky for saying that she was "Patient Zero," as in, the first person to have her reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.
The 49-year-old journalist wrote in a Mail Online column that he fears the egg has rather raced past the chicken here, as in, if a person is a 22-year-old intern working at the White House and she embarks on an affair with her married President, then most people would probably say the shame-ometer probably starts right there and then, Us Magazine reported.
The former CNN host, who doesn't "give a monkey's cuss" about what happened behind closed doors with Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, Morgan added that his objection to Lewinsky's speech is not based on any moral outrage over her deceitful behaviour 20 years ago, rather it's based on her extraordinary self-deceit now.
According to Morgan, it wasn't the Internet that shamed her, it was her predilection, like Clinton's, for illicit cigar-fuelled lust in the world's most powerful room.
Morgan continued that she was 22, not 16 and both of them knew they were playing with the kind of fire that destroys forests in the Californian summer.
He concluded that Clinton should shoulder the lion's share of responsibility because he was a much older man and unlike Lewinsky, he was married, but she is "not blameless" and in her heart, she knows that.