Their 12-year affair madeGennifer Flowers one of the most high profile mistresses in America. Now, two decades after they split amid scandal, the former news reporter from Little Rock, Arkansas wants to ‘sit down and talk’ with BillClinton.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Gennifer hasspoken of her deep regret at turning down Clinton’s pleas to talk some eightyears ago and revealed her belief that they would still be together today, wereit not the birth of Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea.

She said: ‘We have some unresolved issues that it would benice to sit down and talk about now. He was the love of my life and I was thelove of his life and you don’t get over those things.’

'Let's talk:' When he contacted her eight years ago Gennifer Flowers admits she wasn't ready to talk to her former lover, Bill Clinton. Today she longs to

Gennifer thought that speaking out on 27 January 1992 would be the beginning and end of interest in her affair with Clinton. Instead it shaped the Presidential campaign and changed her life forever

As well as speaking candidly about the affair and its ongoing impact on her life, Gennifer has released previously unseen images from her Penthouse shoot to MailOnline. She was featured in the magazine's December 1992 issue.

By then all lines of communication with Clinton had been severed and she had no contact with him for 13 years when he called out of the blue. She said: ‘He called me back in 2005 in New Orleans. Hewanted to put on the hoodie and jog on over like he used to.

'First I was justshocked. He was so adamant about wanting to sit down and talk to me in person.

'It almost seemed like what I had heard of people who were going through a 12step program and wanted to atone to people for various things.’

At the time Gennifer, 63, was recently divorced after a ten yearmarriage.

Baring her soul...and the rest: Gennifer in a previously unseen picture from her Penthouse 1992 shoot

La Vie en Rose: Gennifer says she regrets nothing about the Penthouse shoot that appeared in the magazine in December 1992

She said: ‘I was scared. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to seehim in my heart of hearts. I was just afraid. But there’s going to be anattachment forever.

‘If we had the opportunity to sit down and visit with eachother in person, I’m not saying the romance would be rekindled but we willalways 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.'

Trust Me I'm a Politician: Bill Clinton appearing on CBS's '60 Minutes' in January 1992 with Hillary looking on as he denies any affair with Gennifer Flowers

The other 'other' women Clinton denied having 'relations' with: Monica Lewiinsky embraces Clinton at a public rally in 1996

It is 21 years since Gennifer’s allegations of along-running affair with then Democratic candidate Bill Clinton became the mostsensational 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 asClinton’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 relationswith Gennifer ‘one time’ in 1977 in his deposition to lawyers representingformer Arkansas State employee Paula Jones in her sexual harassment lawsuitagainst him.

By then Flowers was already well and truly defined by thescandal which had made both her, and Clinton, household names.

Apparently driven on by the belief that the ‘truth will setyou free,’ she proceeded to tell her story in a best-sellling book and pose forPenthouse magazine.

Penthouse alone reportedly earned her close to $1million in theaftermath of the scandal.

She said: ‘I was singing in nightclubs, wearing very sexyoutifts and gowns, a very independent liberated woman. I was the Madonna of myday – in Little Rock.’

On posing for Penthouse Gennifer said: ‘I made the decisionto do it.

'No-one made me do or asked me to do anything that made me feeluncomfortable.

I knew Bob (Guccione) would be making me look as good as possible and whatwoman doesn’t enjoy that?'

Of the infamous publisher, whose most famous pictures are available to view on the

https://filthy.media/

bla sts 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 - wouldwant to shed herself of those associations and of the ‘mistress’ title, she haschosen 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 extendedliberation of Gennifer Flowers’ her latest incarnation is as a sex advicecolumnist.

'Mistress Flowers': Sex advice columnist Gennifer says Clinton taught her 'everything she knows' about sex

‘Ask Mistress Gennifer’ will run daily on https://filthy.media/ –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 hersnare the then Governor of Arkansas she said: ‘I’m going to have to thank Billfor some of the advice I’m going to be giving.

'It will be based onexperiences 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 toHillary.

They left Gennifer in no doubt that the union is far from 'traditional.'

She said: ‘What they have is very strong.

'It obviouslyworked for them but I’ve never considered theirs a traditional marriage.’

When rumours surfaced recently of an affairbetween Hillary Clinton and her transition office chief, Huma Abedin, 37, Gennifer was not surprised.

The rumours concerning Huma, wife ofdisgraced 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 steamymessages to 23-year-old Sydney Leathers - a girl he had only ever 'met' online - finally did for his New York Mayoral campaign last week.

Huma Abedin stood by husband, Anthony Weiner, when he was embroiled in a SECOND sexting scandal earlier this year. Prompting many to ask, 'Why?'

Up Close and Personal: Huma Abedin leans in to advise Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, during an Open Government Partnership event in New York in 2011

The scandal broke almost exactly a year after the shamedcongressman suffered a public mauling for the same behaviour. Then, asrecently, his wife Huma Abedin stood by him.

This time round Huma’s loyalty raised eyebrows and questionsover why a woman of such accomplishment would stick by a man so apparentlyincapable of change.

Gennifer Flowers posing for Penthouse in 1992 - the same year that her affair with Bill Clinton was exposed

Gennifer at her 1992 press conference, left, and pictured in Dallas in 2006, right, when she failed in her attempt to revive a defamation case against Hillary Clinton and two of her fomer aides

Gennifer said: ‘I don’t know Huma or the Weiners. I justknow what Bill told me and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexualand he didn’t care. He should know.

' He said Hillary had eaten more p***y than he had.’

Yet however much their roles as mistress and wife cast Gennifer and Hillary Clinton as natural rivals Gennifer claimed to feel a sense of solidarity with Hillary, 65, and would support Hillary’s candidacy for President.

She said: ‘The support I would give Hillary is as a woman. I’m one of those women who in so many aspects of my professional and personal life I’ve been out there making strides for women and allowing them to go down roads in which they were not welcome.

Clinton in November 1992 and the two great loves against which Gennifer could never compete: Chelsea and Politics

Closing ranks: Clinton is embraced by wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea following the final Presidential debate in October 1992

‘I would love to see a woman president.

'And she seems to bethe only one that’s getting close to it.’

According to Gennifer, the promise of the Presidency forherself one day was what bound Hillary to her faithless husband across theyears.

She said: ‘Absolutely that was her reason for sticking byhim and he’s going to stick by her because he owes her that.

‘I would have thrown his clothes out on the front lawn butthat’s just me.’

Reflecting on her affair with Clinton she said: ‘The wholeexperience changed my life forever and everything went in a differentdirection.

'I don’t regret telling the truth. It was a defining moment inAmerican culture absolutely.’

The only difference now, she said, with advances intechnology Clinton would have been unable to deny the affair as he did forseveral years.

She said: ‘I had recorded telephone conversations thank God.But if I hadn’t had them and Monica [Lewinsky] hadn’t had that blue dress we wouldhave been cast out as crazy stalkers.

‘I think today Bill and I would have texted everyopportunity we got. So I would have had tons of texts from him.’

She also believes that they would be together today were it not for the birth of his daughter, Chelsea, in 1980.

She said: 'for a long time he was able to have it all. Then when they had Cheslea and he became Governor the stakes became higher.'

Today Gennifer is single. She has been engaged ‘a couple oftimes’ since her divorce in 2005. She lives in New Orleans and sings regularly,though no longer owns the cabaret club where she used to perform nightly.

‘I love singing,’ she said. ‘It’s who I am. That’s who I amtoday I’ve had the opportunity as time has gone on to put things in their placein my head and move forward.

‘But,’ she admitted. ‘I’m still affected by it, the Clintonsin some way every day and every day something happens that sparks a memory.