Hillary was right to banish me to the sofa: Clinton

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LONDON (AFP) — Former US president Bill Clinton said his wife Hillary was right to banish him to a White House sofa when his fling with White House intern Monica Lewinsky came to light in 1998.

"I thought that, in a funny way, the fact that I was sleeping on the couch and they were still in the same house with me meant that Hilary and (daughter) Chelsea hadn't given up on me," he said in a BBC interview.

"I figured out that I was getting a whipping at home where I should have gotten it. I felt that everything they (Hillary and Chelsea) wanted to say or do to me, they had an absolute right to do so.

"The fact that I was still able to stay under the same roof... I thought that was progress," he said in the interview, broadcast in parallel with the release of...