Stormy Daniels reveals biggest regret as Donald Trump awaits sentencing

Adult film star Stormy Daniels has said her biggest regret is breaking into Donald Trump’s hotel suite, which eventually led to a £102,000 deal.

The hush money paid to Ms Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 US election led to Mr Trump being found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in a trial in New York on Thursday. Although proud to have provided the evidence that led to the former president’s conviction – making Trump the first US leader to be found guilty of a crime – Ms Daniels, 45, wishes she had never met him at dinner.

The pair were spotted at a celebrity golf tournament, where the actress claims they will later have sex.

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“If I could go back in time to July 2006, I would not have accepted Trump’s invitation to dinner in Lake Tahoe,” she told the Mirror.

“I certainly regret putting myself in this situation, but I’m not the one who should be ashamed. I’m not the one who was married, had ulterior motives, or was dishonest.”

She continues: “I get asked a lot, like could you go back and do it again or do this again, and I say how far, because if I’d gone all the way, I wouldn’t – I would have taken him to his room.

“I’ve been asked if it was worth speaking up and standing up to the harassment and clearing your name or whatever, and most of the time I say yes.”

“But going to his room, I’ll regret it forever.”

After their 2006 date, they had several non-sexual encounters. During the 77-year-old’s trial, she told jurors they met again in January 2007 when he invited her to the launch of his Trump vodka brand.

While there, she said, he introduced her to his friend “Karen,” who she later learned was Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who said she was having a months-long affair with Trump during that time. Stormy said he also invited her to Trump Tower around that time and assured her, “I’m still working on the ‘Apprentice’ thing.”

She said they last saw each other in the summer of 2007, when he invited her to see him at a bungalow he was staying at in Los Angeles. She said he “kept trying to make sexual advances” but knocked her down.

“I told him I was on my period,” she said. He said he later called her and told her he couldn’t get her on his Apprentice show.

She never heard from him again. She adds: “I haven’t spoken to Trump since mid-2007 and I don’t want to.”

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