FX announced Tuesday that the long-awaited third installment in Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story franchise will center on Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton, and the impeachment trial that rocked the nation in the late ’90s. Sarah Paulson stars as Linda Tripp, with Beanie Feldstein as Lewinsky and Annaleigh Ashford as Paula Jones. No word yet on who will play the Clintons.

News of Murphy’s intention to adapt Jeffrey Toobin’s 1999 book, A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President, first broke back in 2017—but the project was initially shelved because, according to Murphy, the show couldn’t go on without Lewinsky’s involvement. Then the prolific, Emmy-winning producer got his wish: Lewinsky will serve as a producer on Impeachment: American Crime Story. She emailed an exclusive statement to Vanity Fair Tuesday explaining why she decided to join the production.

Last year Murphy recalled running into Lewinsky at a Hollywood party and telling her: “Nobody should tell your story but you, and it’s kind of gross if they do. If you want to produce it with me, I would love that; but you should be the producer, and you should make all the goddamn money.” As Lewinsky wrote to Vanity Fair:

I was hesitant, and truthfully more than a little scared to sign on. But after a lengthy dinner meeting with Ryan, I came to understand even more clearly how dedicated he is to giving a voice to the marginalized in all of his brilliant work. I’m privileged to work with him and the other talented people on the team, and I’m privileged to have this opportunity.

People have been co-opting and telling my part in this story for decades. In fact, it wasn’t until the past few years that I’ve been able to fully reclaim my narrative; almost 20 years later.

But I’m so grateful for the growth we’ve made as a society that allows people like me who have been historically silenced to finally reintroduce my voice to the conversation. This isn’t just a me problem. Powerful people, often men, take advantage of those subordinate to them in myriad ways all the time. Many people will see this as such a story and for that reason, this narrative is one that is, regretfully, evergreen.

As Lewinsky pointed out, the ongoing and politically divisive discussion around impeachment and the current resident of the White House makes the decades-old Clinton trial as relevant as ever. Last fall Bill Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky was also the subject of the second season of Leon Neyfakh’s popular podcast series Slow Burn. Linda Tripp—who famously taped and exposed Lewinsky’s private confessions back in 1998—shared her side of the story on the podcast last year, but Lewinsky declined to participate.

She did, however, choose to participate in the 2018 docuseries The Clinton Affair and in a personal essay for Vanity Fair wrote:

Why did I choose to participate in this docuseries? One main reason: because I could. Throughout history women have been traduced and silenced. Now it’s our time to tell our own stories in our own words.… Almost all the books written about the Clinton impeachment were written by men. History literally being written by men. In contrast, the docuseries not only includes more women’s voices, but embodies a woman’s gaze: Two of the three main editors and four of the five executive producers are women.… I may not like everything that has been put in the series or left out, but I like that the perspective is being shaped by women. Yes, the process of filming has been exceedingly painful. But I hope that by participating, by telling the truth about a time in my life—a time in our history—I can help ensure that what happened to me never happens to another young person in our country again.

For FX, Dry Powder playwright Sarah Burgess was tasked with adapting Toobin’s book with a framing that will, according to FX chief John Landgraf, “explore the overlooked dimensions of the women who found themselves caught up in the scandal and political war that cast a long shadow over the Clinton presidency.”

Impeachment: American Crime Story premieres on Sunday, September 27, 2020, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX—just in time for the final stretch of the next presidential election.