Yet from quarantine, she does something quietly defiant: she narrates her own experience in real time. Tired, a little wry, and unmistakably present, she refuses to disappear into the role history wrote for her. Instead of being the subject of someone else\u2019s bit, she becomes the author of her own context. In that small but seismic shift, she reminds us that survival is not just staying alive; it is insisting on being seen as more than the worst story ever told about you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
She knows what it means to have the worst moment of your life turned into a global running gag. When Monica Lewinsky names the \u201cirony\u201d of testing positive for COVID, … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n