Adult star Stormy Daniels recently slammed how she was treated in court and accused former President Donald Trump’s female defence lawyer of “slut shaming” her via Mirror.
It has been noted that as the adult actress rebuilds her life away from the courtroom in which she helped bring down the world’s once most powerful man, she has reflected on her tough time on the stand.
She has outlined how she was appalled by her treatment at the hands of Trump attorney Susan Necheles, who tried to use her X-rated career to argue that she fabricated her vivid story of sex with the former president.
“How bad to have a woman get up there and try to slut shame a woman,” she says. “I can’t imagine that anyone else would say otherwise. She actually had the nerve to argue because what I do makes my testimony less valuable. It was both insulting and demeaning.”
Stormy received a payment of £102,000 from Trump’s then-lawyer at his boss’s behest in the lead-up to the 2016 election. It was made to silence her from revealing allegations that the president slept with her behind his wife, Melania’s back, in 2006.
During Stormy’s evidence, Necheles labeled that Stormy was driven by hatred and a desire for money, with their exchanges growing increasingly heated. Trump’s lawyer accused the adult star of trying to extort her client through the hush-money deal.
“False,” Stormy replied. “That’s what you did, right?” Necheles snapped. “False,” she again repeated. At one point, Necheles asked Stormy about her history of making porn movies. “You have a lot of experience of making phony stories about sex appear to be real,” Necheles said.
“Wow,” Stormy replied with a pause. “That’s not how I would put it. The sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room.” Today, Stormy says she struggles with how many people still believe it was her case against Trump. She says: “I wasn’t the prosecution.
“I can’t tell you how many tweets I got a day telling me that I should drop the case. It was not my case to drop. New York State brought it, not me. Like I have no control over this?”
During the six-week trial, Stormy took the stand and she provided graphic details of the night she allegedly spent with Trump after a 2006 celebrity golf tournament. She delivered some of the most explosive testimony exposing him for his alleged extramarital sex, which helped lead to him last week being convicted of all 34 counts of falsifying business records.
After facing constant daily abuse while on the stand – even wearing a built-proof vest to attend court – defiant Stormy refuses to back down. “First of all, it was my duty to relay the facts of the case because I was subpoenaed, and I was asked to tell the truth,” she says.
“I was the only one that was. I felt like it was my way of making up for anyone who could have come after me and got harmed because I didn’t come forward sooner because I didn’t say no to Trump.
“I get asked a lot like if you could go back and do it again, would I? And I say how far back because if I go all the way back, I would not have gone to his hotel room. I get asked if it was worth it to speak out and stand up to being bullied and to clear my name, and most of the time, I say ‘yes’.”
