Monica Lewinsky had the most perfect one-word response to tweet about 'mistakes'

Monica Lewinsky has left the internet chucking once again with her witty response to a tweet about 'mistakes' more than 20 years after her scandalous affair with President Bill Clinton.

Comedian Sarah Cooper shared a tweet yesterday with some sage advice for "the younger generation".

"My advice to the younger generation: make your mistakes now. Because by the time you're 40, you'll barely even remember them! And then you get to make the same mistakes all over again it's really fun," she tweeted.

Lewinsky then retweeted the advice, adding a one-word caption that spoke volumes: "Uhhhmmmmmm."

Cooper's original tweet was already tongue-in-cheek, but Lewinsky's addition had her followers in stitches as she cheekily referenced her own mistake from her younger years.

Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House intern when she and President Clinton began a sexual relationship, which continued from 1995 until 1997, despite him being married to Hillary Clinton.

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The affair came to light in 1998, the scandal leaving Clinton disgraced and Lewinsky as the "world's punching bag" as media, politicians and the general public tore into her over the affair.

Unfairly, it was Lewinsky's name that became shorthand for the scandal, and it's an association she's still trying to escape more than 20 years on.

Fortunately, Lewinsky has reframed herself in the past few years and has a strong online following, who found her latest tweet hilarious.

This isn't the first time Lewinsky has received praise for her attitude towards her historical controversy.

In July 2019, she jokingly responded to a tweet about the "worst career advice" she ever received, writing that it was: "An internship at the white house will be amazing on your resume."

Just a week prior she had shared a tongue-in-cheek response to a Washington Times article that quoted Vice President Mike Pence as saying people should "spend more time on your knees than the internet".

It's understood he was referring to religious worship, however when American journalist Lauren Duca jokingly tweeted "who's gonna tell him?", Lewinsky replied "def not me."

But the anti-bullying activist isn't all joking tweets and funny retorts; she has also spoken candidly about the impact of her affair with President Clinton on her life in the decades since the scandal broke.

"It's hard for us to imagine in today's world... but to have gone to bed as a private person and to awaken the next morning with the world knowing me was shocking," she explained in a 2017 interview with ITV programme This Morning.

"There was no one who had gone through an online scandal in the same way, losing a digital reputation overnight."

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Earlier this year she tweeted: "I'm lucky I survived and came from an upper middle class family who could support me... but even then, I lost so much of my life for over a decade."

The activist has previously said the 'Me Too' movement prompted her to interrogate her own feelings around what happened between her and the former US President.

"What transpired between Bill Clinton and myself was not sexual assault, although we now recognise that it constituted a gross abuse of power," she wrote in Vanity Fair in 2018.