

So far, Beyoncé's team has made no statement on the request from Lewinsky.Īfter facing the backlash from the use of the word "sp-z" in her "Heated" lyrics, the "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" icon immediately took action to amend the mistake.īeyoncé's representative told Rolling Stonethat the word was not used "intentionally in a harmful way."

Many fans weren't amused by the statement, with one person tweeting, "She’s worried about a song released almost 9 years ago, girl be. The article she's referring to is from 2014, where she said, "“Thanks, Beyoncé, but if we’re verbing, I think you meant ‘Bill Clinton’d all on my gown,’ not ‘Monica Lewinsky’d.’”

but you make an interesting/fair point…” Lewinsky responded. I did mention it in the first Vanity Fair article I wrote in 2014… which was the first public thing I’d done in 10 years. According to Billboard, a fan replied to Lewinsky with, "Have you reached out to Beyoncé or her team before you saw all the heat? I am curious."
