Read between the lines: porn star Stormy Daniels plays coy over alleged affair with Donald Trump during talk show appearance
Her appearance on the show follows the publication of an interview with the pornographic actor by InTouch magazine in which she claims she had an extramarital affair with Trump, years before his presidential campaign
The allegations that Donald Trump paid hush money to hide an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels took another bizarre twist on Tuesday night during an interview with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that followed the president’s first State of the Union address.
Hours before she was set to appear on the show, Daniels issued a surprise statement in which she flatly denied the affair in 2006. But on the show, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, cast doubt on the authenticity of the statement, only to be contradicted by her lawyer moments after the interview concluded.
“She was having fun on Kimmel and being her normal playful self,” her lawyer, Keith Davidson, wrote in an email. “The signature is indeed hers as she signed the statement today in the presence of me and her manager, Gina Rodriguez.”
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The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that a Trump Organisation lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels US$130,000 just before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair she had with Trump a decade earlier, soon after Melania Trump gave birth to the couple’s only son, Barron.