Stormy Daniels said she could not remember the key details of the sexual connection she claims she had with Donald Trump until she saw a film about Fox Aux’s sexual harassment of women on Fox News to tell her remember.
“I went to see the movie Bombshell,” she said, “and suddenly it just came back.”
Daniels, an adult film star and director with the birth name Stephanie Clifford, spoke to Michael Cohen about the former Trump lawyer’s podcast, Mea Culpa, made by Audio Up Media. Excerpts were shared with the Guardian.
Daniels also described that Trump “made his best yet terribly disturbing impression of Burt Reynolds” on a bed, dressed only in his underwear.
Daniels claims he had sex with Trump in Nevada in 2006. He denies it, but a $ 130,000 sum to Daniels that Trump compensated contributed to Cohen’s downfall in 2018.
Trump’s longtime fixer has been jailed for tax fraud, the fact that he led Congress and committed violations of the campaign finance law. He collaborates with investigators and publishes a book Disloyal, while completing a three-year sentence.
The payment to Daniels, and Cohen’s role in a payment to another woman, Playboy model Karen McDougal, during the 2016 election, is at the center of ongoing investigations. Stripped of protecting his office, Trump is vulnerable to prosecution.
Daniels’ appearance on Cohen’s podcast suggests a rapprochement between the two. After Cohen orchestrated Trump’s efforts to silence Daniels, Daniels had harsh words for Cohen in her own book, Full Disclosure.
Daniels calls Cohen a ‘dull ball’ and ‘a fucking idiot’. She also outlined what she believes is a threat to her safety and that of her daughter, apparently from Trump. In 2018, she said, “It never occurred to any of these men that I would one day have a voice.”
Cohen is now a vocal critic of his old boss. Daniels remained a thorn in Trump’s side. She and Cohen seem to have realized that their enemy’s enemy is their friend.
“Both of our stories will be forever connected to Donald Trump, but also to each other,” Cohen said. “Thank you for giving me a second chance.”
The details of Daniels’ alleged connection to Trump during a charity golf event in Lake Tahoe in 2006 are known, not thanks to her book that the Guardian first reported.
‘I could not remember,’ she told Cohen, ‘how I got out of standing in the bathroom door to the bottom of him on the bed, as if I could not remember how my dress was taken off or how my shoes got off. , because I know I took off my shoes, because I clearly remember that I put them on again and that they were buckled, as if they were really gold heels that were not easy to get off.
‘And I just, there’s about 60 seconds where I just could not think about it anymore and it does not appear in the book, and no one really wanted to ask about it. They just wanted to know the details of what his attachment, or the lack of attachment, looked like. And I was like, it really bothered me for years, like, I definitely did not drink, so I think why I do not remember.
‘And I will never forget this moment. I went to watch that movie Bombshell, and suddenly it just came back. ‘
Bombshell was directed by Jay Roach, starring Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie and was released in 2019. It tells the story of the downfall of Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News and a key ally of Trump. sexual harassment.
Trump denies allegations of sexual harassment and assault by several women. Shortly before the 2016 election, Fox News killed a story about Trump and Daniels. Ailes resigned in July of that year and died the following May.
Daniels’ own case against Trump for defamation is on its way to the Supreme Court. She told Cohen, “I’ve lost everything already, so I’m taking it completely.”
From Lake Tahoe in 2006, Daniels also told Cohen that she now remembers thinking: ‘Oh fuck, how do I get myself into this situation. And I remember thinking I could definitely fight with his fat ass, but I could definitely outdo him. There is a bodyguard at the door. But I’m not threatened, I’m not physically threatened.
‘And then I tried to sidestep … I wanted to remember really quickly, where I left my wallet, as if I had to get out of here. And I stepped aside, and he got up from the bed and said, ‘This is your chance.’ And I was like, ‘What?’ and he was like, ‘You have to show me how bad you want it, or you just want to go back to the trailer park.’ ‘
Daniels said Trump told her he would get her a lock in The Apprentice, the reality TV show for which he was best known at the time. At the time of the alleged encounter, Trump’s third wife, Melania Trump, recently gave birth to their son, Barron.
Daniels told Cohen that she had gone to the bathroom, and then she was ‘really scared to see waiting’ when she came out.
“I was just freezing,” she said, “and I did not know what to say. He stripped to his underwear and lay down on the bed and made his best but also terribly disturbing impression of Burt Reynolds. ‘
She “did not say anything for years,” she said, “because I did not remember it.” Now the star of a ghost-hunting reality TV show, Spooky Babes, she added: ‘I was in the most intimate way face to face with evil. Demons no longer scare me. ”
Daniels described what she said happened next. In 2018, she told CBS 60 Minutes: ‘And I was like,’ Ugh, here we go. And I just felt like maybe it was some kind of … I had to make it bad to go to someone’s room alone. ‘
Interviewer Anderson Cooper said: “And you had sex with him.”
“Yes,” Daniels said.