BURSTMonica Lewinsky is playing a key role in the upcoming Hulu series about Amanda Knox, the American student who spent nearly four years in an Italian prison after she was wrongly convicted of murdering her roommate in 2007.
Lewinsky, who became an international figure in the 1990s after her affair with then-President Clinton prompted his impeachment in 1998, is an executive producer on "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox," which is set to debut Wednesday on the streaming service.
The former White House intern said during a joint appearance with Knox on ABC's "Good Morning America" Monday that she pursued Knox's story while considering options for an already-arranged TV deal because she saw Knox as "another young woman who had suffered in the media, had been feasted on, on the world stage."
"What happens is all women internalize that message and all women end up as collateral damage," Lewinsky said. "That's the wider [lens]."
She explained she wanted to show how lives are impacted after figures like herself and Knox are no longer in the headlines.
"I think for young people, or I hope for young people, it's also a message that you can get through it," Lewinsky said.
Knox said there were "surprising parallels" between the fallout she and Lewinsky experienced after becoming international headlines and tabloid fodder.
"We were both interrogated; we've both been viciously turned into caricatures of ourselves in the media," Knox said.
According to series details on IMDb, the first and second episodes will be available to stream starting Wednesday, with six additional episodes released on subsequent Wednesdays through Oct. 1.
Hulu describes the series as tracing "Amanda's relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom and examin[ing] why authorities and the world stood so firmly in judgment."
The series stars actress Grace Van Patten, of the Hulu series "Tell Me Lies," as Knox. Hulu released the dramatic first 90 seconds of the show online as a preview.
"I think what's so important for all of us — ourselves included — the headline moves on and our focus moves on," Lewinsky said in the ABC interview. "I think you get to see that in the aftermath and really come to understand how hard it is to move forward."