Stormy Daniels claims she hated the attention she received after exposing her affair with former President Donald Trump in a trailer for her new documentary, which also shows her mocking her former lawyer Michael Avenatti.
The Peacock documentary, titled Stormy, shows the former porn star navigating her life after the world found out about her alleged affair with the now Republican presidential candidate.
In the trailer released Thursday, the 44-year-old describes herself as a mother, adult film star and “idiot who can’t keep her mouth shut.” She adds that she is a registered Republican, but jokes that she “goes both ways.”
Stormy claims she was “terrified” by the media frenzy she faced after it emerged in 2018 that Michael Cohen allegedly paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump.
“Every time I got up they hit me even harder and I hit rock bottom,” she said through tears. ‘You’ve never seen my name that doesn’t say porn star in front of it. Because we are not considered human.
The Peacock documentary, titled Stormy, shows the former porn star navigating her life after the world learned of her alleged affair with former President Trump.
At one point she is seen taunting Avennati, saying, “You’re in prison, bitch!”
“You’ve never seen my name without it saying pornstar in front of it,” Stormy said in the trailer. ‘Because we are not considered human’
Stormy also talks about her relationship with Avenatti, saying that the corrupt lawyer, who is now in prison, betrayed her and suggested that she forged his signature.
At one point she is seen mocking the lawyer, saying: ‘You’re in prison, bitch!’
Avenatti is serving 14 years in prison after being convicted of evading taxes and stealing millions of dollars from clients.
After news of the alleged affair and hush payment broke in 2018, Stormy filed a lawsuit against Trump in March of that year, claiming that the confidentiality agreement she signed was invalid.
A tweet Trump wrote about her accusations led her to file a defamation lawsuit just a month later.
He lost his defamation suit and was ordered to pay nearly $300,000 to Trump in legal fees.
The adult film star lost an appeal and will now face Trump again in the criminal “hush money” trial on March 18.
The charges, the first criminal charges against the former president, relate to refunds made through an LLC to his former lawyer and ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen.
Trump has said the payments were legitimate expenses and not illegally disguised.
Stormy has said she plans to testify in court during the trial.
Daniels has said she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
Stormy is seen surrounded by photographers after the country learned of the claims.
Stormy claims she was “terrified” by the media frenzy she faced after it emerged in 2018 that Michael Cohen allegedly paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about the alleged affair.
Stormy has said she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
She said he invited her to dinner and they had dinner in his hotel suite, where he showed her a copy of a golf magazine with her photo on the cover.
“And I said, ‘Someone should take that magazine and spank you with it,'” Daniels told CBS’ 60 Minutes in 2018.
“So he turned around and pulled his pants down a little bit (you know, he had underwear on and stuff) and I hit him a couple times,” Daniels said.
He said at one point he excused himself to go to the bathroom and when he returned, Trump was “sitting” on the edge of the bed.
Stormy is seen hugging her young daughter in the trailer for the documentary
Avenatti is serving 14 years in prison after being convicted of evading taxes and stealing millions of dollars from clients.
‘I realized exactly what I had gotten myself into. And I was like, ‘Ugh, here we go,’ Stormy said.
“And I felt like maybe… I deserved it for making a bad decision to go to someone’s room alone.” She said the two had consensual sex.
Stormy said that Trump made phone calls to her over the following year and that she met with him again at his request in July 2007 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles to discuss her possible appearance on Celebrity Apprentice.
She said he wanted to have sex again at the hotel, but she refused, and that Trump called her a month later to tell her he couldn’t get her on the show.
On October 28, 2016, in the final days before the presidential election that Trump won, Daniels signed a confidentiality agreement in which she agreed not to speak publicly about her relationship with him in exchange for a payment of $130,000, according to documents filed in Los Angeles. Angeles Federal Court.
The pact was signed by Keith Davidson, his lawyer at the time, and Michael Cohen, then Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer.