Netflix show House of Cards

The whole Lewinsky issue is so ridden with drama and hearsay it reads like a particularly cutting episode of House of Cards - which strangely enough, Clinton admitted she was a fan of, in her People interview.

The potential 2016 presidential candidate said she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, "totally binge-watched" the massively popular Netflix political thriller starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.

Clinton also said she had kept herself busy with cleaning out closets and doing yoga and aquatics since leaving the Obama administration last year.

And she said she was prepared to embrace her role as a grandmother (her daughter, Chelsea, announced in April that she was pregnant): "With the extra joy of 'I’m about to become a grandmother,' I want to live in the moment."

The Democrat politician refused to be drawn on whether she would run for president in 2016, saying she needed to consider "what I think is right for me".

"I'm certainly in the camp that says we need to break down that highest, hardest glass ceiling in American politics," she said. "To have a woman president is something I would love to see happen, but I'll just have to make my own decision."

Hillary Clinton: I've moved on from the Monica Lewinsky affair