Misha Collins has shared tales in the past about his time as an intern at the White House. During a Q&A, the actor revealed how he used to take press passes home even though interns were supposed to return them daily. "Every day I would pretend to drop my pass in the box and [then] stash my pass," he once said (via YouTube). In 1998, around the time the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Collins wrote an op-ed for The Baltimore Sun. The former intern wrote the piece under his legal name, Dmitri Krushnic, that defended Lewinsky. "[T]he media have reported that sources describe Ms. Lewinsky as 'infatuated' with the president, 'star struck and even 'a stalker,'" Collins wrote. "I contend that the description of her behavior could fit any number of young interns."
At the time, Collins felt that Lewinsky had been unfairly villainized. He recalled a story of how one intern went to unreasonable lengths for a brief encounter with the then-president. "One female intern unstrategically stepped into a closet so that she could 'accidentally' step out again when Mr. Clinton was passing." Collins contested: "If Monica Lewinsky had not seemed like a star-struck, infatuated stalker who hung around the West Wing every chance she got, then it would be fair to say her behavior in the White House was suspicious." Keep reading to see what the actor thought thinks about Lewinsky now.
