“It’s like me and Juanita and Kathleen have been screaming for years for someone to pay attention to us on the liberal side, and it’s like no one would hear us,” Ms. Jones told The New York Times in November.

That same month, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat of New York, said that Mr. Clinton should have resigned after the Lewinsky affair.

“Yes, I think that is the appropriate response,” she said after being asked whether he should have stepped down.

But Mr. Clinton bristled during the NBC News interview when asked whether he felt he had done enough to address the scandal.

“Nobody believes that I got out of that for free,” he said. “I left the White House with $16 million in debt.”

In a piece in the March issue of “Vanity Fair,” Ms. Lewinsky wrote that the #MeToo movement had helped clarify her thinking about the affair, which she had previously characterized as fully consensual.

“I now see how problematic it was that the two of us even got to a place where there was a question of consent,” she wrote. “Instead, the road that led there was littered with inappropriate abuse of authority, station and privilege.”