Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who claims she had an affair with Donald Trump and is suing the president over a subsequent nondisclosure agreement, said she had received death threats but "won't be bullied."
"I get crazy hate mail and death threats," she told British talk show Loose Women, in an interview broadcast Monday, about the fallout from her allegations of having a sexual relationship with Trump in 2006. "I felt like owning it, and standing up, and saying I'm not ashamed and I won't be bullied."
Asked specifically whether she felt that her life was under threat, she said, "My answer to that question is going to change daily. Some days I can slip out and go about my day, and I almost feel normal for a minute, and then I look around and I've got two big bodyguards behind me. Another day, I get crazy hate mail and death threats."
Daniels was appearing on the talk show after withdrawing from the British version of Celebrity Big Brother. She said she was forced to pull out of the lucrative arrangement because of a "development in my custody case." Daniels's husband filed for divorce last month.
While undeterred by the threats against her, Daniels said she was concerned for her 7-year-old daughter, who knows "something happened" between her and Trump.
"My biggest fear is that her life is going to be changed forever in a negative way, which was also one of the reasons I decided to come forward and start speaking up—because I wanted to be someone she was proud of," she said.
After reports in January revealed a $130,000 nondisclosure agreement she signed with Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen shortly before the 2016 election, Daniels decided to speak publicly about the alleged affair. She gave an interview with 60 Minutes in which she said she was once threatened to keep quiet when she was in a parking lot with her daughter. Daniels, who has been legally and publicly represented by lawyer Michael Avenatti, has also filed a lawsuit suing Trump for defamation.
Talking about the president, she told Loose Women, "I think that he's a man who's in over his head."
Since Daniels's revelations, Cohen has had his home, office and hotel room raided by the FBI, which was seeking documents related to possible campaign finance violations.
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