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Monica Lewinsky took her reputation-reclamation tour to TED, the famed global conference, on Thursday.

“I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo and, of course, ‘that woman.’ I was known by many but actually known by few. I get it. It was easy to forget ‘that woman’ was dimensional and had a soul,” the former White House intern told a crowd in Vancouver, Canada.

“I admit I made mistakes . . . but the attention and judgment that I received — not the story, but that I personally received — was unprecedented,” she said.

Lewinsky, 41, didn’t detail her affair with President Bill Clinton, instead focusing on the humiliation that followed and on her crusade against online harassment.

“At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss,” she said. “At the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences. When this happened to me, 17 years ago, there was no name for it. Now we call it cyberbullying.”

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