American adult film star Stormy Daniels is giving her version of an alleged 2006 sexual relationship with Donald Trump in a documentary airing Monday, an affair that will lead to a criminal trial against the former president in New York in April, AFP and Agerpres said. .

“Stormy,” on streaming platform Peacock (an NBCUniversal group), tells Stephanie Clifford’s story for nearly two hours through a montage of interviews and archival footage.

This former porn actress, nicknamed Stormy Daniels, became a celebrity because of the legal and political consequences of a brief affair with Trump. Which the Republican businessman denies.

“When I met Trump (in 2006), he told me he never wanted to be president,” Clifford says in excerpts from this documentary, directed by Sarah Gibson and produced by Erin Lee Carr, who has already written a film about the singer Britney. Spears

“But then Trump won the Republican nomination” in the 2016 presidential election, and “that’s where all the shit started,” says the woman, who was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, just 45 years ago.

“All I had to do was sign a piece of paper to shut up,” she continued over an image of a $130,000 transfer document on Oct. 27, 2016, just before the presidential election that Republican Donald Trump won over Democrat Hillary Clinton. .

After years of criminal investigation and the historic March 2023 indictment of Donald Trump, a judge in New York on Friday delayed until mid-April a trial that was set to begin on March 25 in the hidden payments case.

The former president of the United States has pleaded not guilty to charges that he falsified the accounts of his Trump Organization real estate empire to hide $130,000 in payments to Clifford through former Trump lawyer and now nemesis Michael Cohen.

According to New York prosecutors and Stormy Daniels, she was supposed to keep quiet about a consensual sexual relationship she allegedly had in the summer of 2006 with a man who would reach the White House a decade later and who was already married to Melania Trump.

In this case, which broke out in 2018, Donald Trump is accused of 34 accounting frauds, which are punishable by a maximum penalty of four years in prison in the most serious cases.