She said: ‘I was scared. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to see
him in my heart of hearts.
I was just afraid. But there’s going to be an
attachment forever.
‘If we had the opportunity to sit down and visit with each
other in person, I’m not saying the romance would be rekindled but we will
always have something.
Whatever you might call it.
'Bill
and I would be together today if it wasn't for politics. It was me,
Bill and Hillary. Then they had Chelsea and the stakes got too high.'
It is 21 years since Gennifer’s allegations of a
long-running affair with then Democratic candidate Bill Clinton became the most
sensational event of the 1992 campaign.
The Madonna of Little Rock, Arkansas: Gennifer Flowers at the time the scandal of her affair with Clinton broke
On 23 January 1992 tabloid, The Star named Gennifer as
Clinton’s mistress. Three days later he and wife Hillary appeared on 60 minutes,
side by side, flat denying the claim.
Six years later Clinton admitted to having sexual relations
with Gennifer ‘one time’ in 1977 in his deposition to lawyers representing
former Arkansas State employee Paula Jones in her sexual harassment lawsuit
against him.
By then Flowers was already well and truly defined by the
scandal which had made both her, and Clinton, household names.
Apparently driven on by the belief that the ‘truth will set
you free,’ she proceeded to tell her story in a best-sellling book and pose for
Penthouse magazine.
Penthouse alone reportedly earned her close to $1million in the
aftermath of the scandal.
She said: ‘I was singing in nightclubs, wearing very sexy
outifts and gowns, a very independent liberated woman. I was the Madonna of my
day – in Little Rock.’
On posing for Penthouse Gennifer said: ‘I made the decision
to do it.
'No-one made me do or asked me to do anything that made me feel
uncomfortable.
I knew Bob (Guccione) would be making me look as good as possible and what
woman doesn’t enjoy that?'
Of the infamous publisher, whose most famous pictures are available to view on the Guccione Collection website boasts his favorite pictures from the Penthouse archives, she said, 'Bob was just a stud.'
But while some might assume that, all these years later,
Flowers – who has established herself as a cabaret singer in New Orleans - would
want to shed herself of those associations and of the ‘mistress’ title, she has
chosen instead to embrace them.
She said: ‘Why not? I was a mistress for many years.’
And so as part of what she refers to as ‘the extended
liberation of Gennifer Flowers’ her latest incarnation is as a sex advice
columnist.
Ask Mistress Gennifer’ will run daily on Guccionecollection.com–
a site devoted to the archives of Penthouse publisher, Bob Guccione. The
haul is part of a treasure trover discovered by businessman Jeremy
Frommer after he bought Guccione's archives.
Demonstrating something of the playfulness that saw her
snare the then Governor of Arkansas she said: ‘I’m going to have to thank Bill
for some of the advice I’m going to be giving.
'It will be based on
experiences I had with him.
Gennifer in 1996: No longer in Clinton's bed but still in the spotlight in 1996
She added: 'I wish he would write to me.
'He could do it. People don't have to send their name.
'Really he taught me a lot.'
Clinton, now 67, also shared a lot of intimacies regarding his marriage to
Hillary.
They left Gennifer in no doubt that the union is far from 'traditional.'
She said: ‘What they have is very strong.
'It obviously
worked for them but I’ve never considered theirs a traditional marriage.’
When rumours surfaced recently of an affair
between Hillary Clinton and her transition office chief, Huma Abedin, 37, Gennifer was not surprised.
The
rumours concerning Huma, wife of
disgraced former Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, 49, emerged as she
stood by her husband in the wake of his recent 'sexting' scandal.
Revelations
that he had sent intimate pictures of himself and steamy
messages to 23-year-old Sydney Leathers - a girl he had only ever 'met'
online - finally did for his New York Mayoral campaign last week.
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