Stephanie Clifford, the porn actress known as Stormy Daniels, said she had sex with Donald Trump in 2006, recanting a statement denying the affair that Trump’s personal lawyer issued under her name in January.
Clifford said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that she signed the denial, after the Wall Street Journal reported she’d been paid $130,000 to remain silent a month before the 2016 election, because she believed Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, would make her “life hell in many different ways.”
She said she and her young daughter were physically threatened by an unidentified man in Las Vegas in 2011 if she revealed the affair. Earlier that year, Cohen threatened to sue In Touch magazine if it published an interview with Clifford in which she detailed the relationship, according to “60 Minutes.”
“I was concerned for my family and their safety,” she said.
Cohen and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment Sunday evening.
Clifford declined to answer questions about whether she had any text messages or videos documenting the relationship. Her attorney, Michael Avenatti, had hinted at the existence of such evidence in a provocative Twitter post last week.
Clifford, in her first television interview discussing the alleged affair, said she signed a non-disclosure agreement drawn up by Cohen in 2016 in part because she was afraid of potential physical harm, citing the 2011 threat.
“A guy walked up on me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story’,” she said, according to a transcript of the interview released by CBS. “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.”
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