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7th April 2023
10:11am BST
Stormy Daniels told Piers Morgan her fans are "very much like you" during an interview Thursday.
The porn star at the centre of Donald Trump's impending court case was interviewed on TalkTV about her role in the hush money scandal that led to the former US president facing 34 criminal charges.
Daniels told Morgan how her fanbase shifted in 2018 after she alleged she had a sexual, extramarital, relationship with Trump in 2006, and had later been threatened and paid to stay quiet.
She said: “I was dancing in strip clubs, which I had always done but it used to be [that] I’d go on stage and most of the [audience] would be white guys in suits – very much like you."
Morgan did not respond.
Daniels said that "suddenly overnight" that changed, the crowd was markedly different: “All of those guys were gone and it’s gay men and trans people and women – a lot of women,” she continued. “Just this whole other crowd and dynamic.”
The adult entertainer told Morgan she doesn't think Trump deserves jail time, saying: “Specific to my case, I don’t think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration."
She also reiterated that she will "absolutely" testify against Trump, but admitted it was "daunting". However, she said she is looking "forward to it because i have nothing to hide".
The Independent noted that Daniels interview had been set to take place last week, but was postponed for security reasons.
She told Vogue she has received death threats.
Trump was arrested this week as part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grand jury investigation into a $130,000 (£104,000) hush money payment he is accused of making to Daniels via his then-lawyer Michael Cohen. Trump has denied the accusations and insisted the money was paid to Cohen to cover unrelated legal expenses.
Meanwhile, Daniels was ordered to pay Trump $120,000 (£96,400) on the same day he appeared in court. The order was the result of a defamation lawsuit Daniels lost against the former reality TV star in 2018 after he branded her claims that she was threatened by an unidentified man in a parking lot over their alleged affair a “total con job”.
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