Former president Bill Clinton doubled down Monday night on his view that he doesn't owe Monica Lewinsky a person-to-person apology for taking advantage of her when she was a White House intern.

He said during a book-tour event in Harlem, as he had the day before in an interview broadcast on NBC, that the blanket mea culpa he offered in 1998 should have been enough.

'The suggestion was that I never apologized for what caused all the trouble for me 20 years ago,' Clinton said Monday night – not mentioning the trouble it caused Lewinsky.

'I did,' he said. 'I meant it then, I meant it now. I apologized to my family, to Monica Lewinsky and her family and to the American people before a panel of ministers in the White House, which was widely reported.'

'So I did that. I meant it then and I mean it today. I live with it all the time.'

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Former president Bill Clinton doubled down Monday night on his insistence that his 1990s blanket apology to Monica Lewinsky was enough, and that he's already said he's sorry 'what caused all the trouble for me' in the 1990s – without mentioning the trouble it caused her

Clinton said in an NBC interview airing Monday that he's never personally apologized to Lewinsky for how their sexual affair turned her life upside down – and he doesn't owe it to her

The former president carried on a lengthy affair with Lewinsky, often trysting with her just steps from the Oval Office

Watch part one of @craigmelvin's interview with Bill Clinton and James Patterson pic.twitter.com/UC8KAQw8Ge — TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 4, 2018

Clinton was referring to the 1998 National Prayer Breakfast, where he said he was sorry for the affair that nearly ended his political career.

He mentioned Lewinsky and her family at the time, plus 'my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet.'

On Monday night the former president painted himself as a supporter of the #MeToo movement, a public groundswell of women who have come forward to tell their stories of sexual abuse and harassment at the hands of powerful men.

At least four women maintain such accusations against Clinton, including one, Juanita Broaddrick, who claims he raped her decads ago in an Arkansas hotel room while he was the state's married governor.

'I support the Me Too movement,' he said, adding that he believes 'it is long overdue.'

'And I have always tried to support it in the decisions and policies that I advanced. Beyond that, I think it would be good if we could go on with the discussion' about his book.

Lewinsky's adult life has been defined by Bill Clinton's successful sexual advances and the global scrutiny that followed. But Clinton's new book, co-authored with fiction writer James Patterson, has him engaged for the first time in a no-apologies tour about his past conquests.

'No I do not' owe her an apology, he told NBC in an interview airing Monday on the 'Today' show. 'I have never talked to her. But I did say publicly on more than one occasion that I was sorry.'

'I apologized to everybody in the world,' Clinton said, implying that was enough.

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Clinton is now on a book tour with co-author James Patterson but got pointed questions from NBC in an interview that aired Monday morning

The flustered former president, more famous for his Don Juan-like seductions than for his policy legacy, portrayed himself, not Lewinsky, as history's victim in the mass-media's retelling of the 1990s saga.

'A lot of the facts have been omitted to make the story work,' he declared, 'I think partly because they're frustrated that they got all these serious allegations against the current occupant of the Oval Office and his voters don't seem to care.'

And Clinton complained in the interview that he left the presidency financially ruined because of the costs associated with the legal consequences of his actions.

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

He's worth about $80 million today, aided by an aggressive schedule of speaking events – many of which paid him six-figure fees for individual appearances.

In a March essay for Vanity Fair magazine, Lewinsky wrote that 'what transpired between Bill Clinton and myself was not sexual assault, although we now recognize that it constituted a gross abuse of power.'

Clinton, pictured denying his May-December affair when he was president, was already noted at the time for his lothario habits

But decades later, she's still traumatized by the aftermath of being identifed globally as the your woman the President of the United States kept on the side and used for his own pleasure just a few feet from the Oval Office.

'I’m sorry to say I don’t have a definitive answer yet on the meaning of all of the events that led to the 1998 investigation,' Lewinsky wrote of the public humiliation that played out in seeming slow motion.

'I am unpacking and reprocessing what happened to me. Over and over and over again.'

Clinton is launching a book tour to promote 'The President is Missing,' a fictional political thriller co-written with the famed author James Patterson.

He accused interviewed Craig Melvin of 'ignor[ing] gaping facts in describing this, and I bet you don't know you don't know them.'

'This was litigated 20 years ago. Two-thirds of the American people sided with me.'

Lewinsky is pictured on September 21, 1998 meeting with then-president Bill Clinton at a White House function

If he were president today, he said later, his most famous extramarital affair wouldn't 'be an issue, because people would be using the facts instead of the imagined facts.'

Patterson, too, defended Clinton – by comparing his sexual affairs in office with those of two preceding Democratic presidents.

'It's 20 years ago, come on!' he blasted Melvin. 'Let's talk about JFK. Let's talk about, you know, LBJ. Stop already!'

Clinton piled on.

'You think President Kennedy should have resigned? Do you believe President Johnson should have resigned? Someone should ask you these questions because of the way you formulate the questions,' he jabbed. 'I dealt with it 20 years ago, plus.'

Suddenly philosophical and seeming to take a longer view of history, Clinton said: 'I have tried to do a good job since then with my life and with my work. That's all I have to say to you.'