My daughter and I were threatened, claims porn actress
STORMY DANIELS, the adult film star who says she had an affair with Donald Trump, has claimed she and her daughter were threatened when she first tried to go public with the story of the alleged tryst, it emerged last night.
In a much-anticipated interview, Miss Daniels told 60 Minutes, CBS’S flagship current affairs show, that she had sex with Mr Trump in 2006 – recanting a statement denying the affair that Trump’s personal lawyer issued under her name in January. She claimed in the interview that in 2011, when she first threatened to go public with her version of events, that she and her young daughter were physically threatened by an unidentified man in a Las Vegas parking lot if she revealed the affair.
“A guy walked up on me and said to me: ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story’,” she said. “And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said: ‘That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.’ And then he was gone.”
Earlier that year, Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s lawyer, had threatened to sue In Touch magazine if it published an interview with Miss Daniels in which she detailed the relationship, according to 60 Minutes.
In her first television interview discussing the alleged affair, Miss Daniels also said she signed a non-disclosure agreement drawn up by Mr Cohen in 2016 ahead of the presidential election in part because she was afraid of potential physical harm. It emerged earlier this year that she was paid $130,000 (£92,000) by Mr Cohen, leading to allegations that the payment may have violated United States campaign finance laws. Miss Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, declined to answer questions about whether she had any text messages or videos documenting the relationship after her attorney, Michael Avenatti, had hinted last week at the existence of such evidence.
Ahead of the interview, Miss Daniels said her years in the porn industry would help her cope with the scrutiny she expected to face in the wake of speaking out.
The White House has denied any sexual encounter took place.