On Jimmy Kimmel Live! Daniels appears to question the authenticity of a statement denying the affair, only for her lawyer to insist it is real 
 
 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 attorney moments after the interview concluded. 
 
 “She was having fun on Kimmel and being her normal playful self,” her attorney, Keith Davidson, told the Guardian in an email. 
 
 “The signature is indeed hers as she signed the statement today in the presence of me and her manager, Gina Rodriguez.” 
 
 
 
 The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that a Trump Organization attorney, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels $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. Cohen later produced an email in which Clifford apparently denied a “sexual and/or romantic affair” and receipt of “hush money”. 
 
 
 
 The new statement, addressed to “whom it may concern” and released before her appearance on the show, said: “Over the past few weeks I have been asked countless times to comment on reports of an alleged sexual relationship I had with Donald Trump many, many, many years ago.” 
 
 
 
 “The fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006, 2011, 2016, 2017 and now again in 2018. I am not denying the affair because I was paid ‘hush money’ as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids. I am denying this affair because it never happened. I will have no further comment on this matter.” 
 
 On Tuesday night, Kimmel read the statement in its entirety and asked Daniels whether she had authorized its release. He held up several autographed photos of Daniels and compared the signatures to the one on the statement released on Tuesday. 
 
 “Did you sign this letter that was released today?” he asked. 
 
 “I don’t know, did I?” Daniels said, refusing to answer directly. 
 
 “That doesn’t look my signature, does it?” she replied coyly when he asked again. 
 
 
 
 “It doesn’t look like your signature,” Kimmel agrees. “So you’re saying perhaps this letter was written and released without your approval?” 
 
 “Hm,” Daniels said, laughing with the audience. 
 
 “Do you know where it came from? Do you have any idea?” Kimmel asked. 
 
 “I do not know where,” she said. 
 
 During her appearance on the show, Daniels declined to discuss the alleged affair with Trump despite the host’s attempts using innuendo, carrots and puppets. She feigned disgust when Kimmel conjured an image of the president, lying in his bed at the White House, surrounded by McDonald’s hamburger wrappers, watching her on TV. 
 
 “I don’t want to imagine him,” Daniels said, drawing laughs and applause. 
 
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 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 and ascendance to the White House. 
 
 In a 2011 interview with the magazine, Daniels details at length the 2006 relationship with the businessman, including encounters with his entourage, his teetotal lifestyle and phobia of sharks. 
 
 When Kimmel read from the InTouch interview, Daniels dodged again. Asked if the interview was accurate she replied: “not as it is written” but then said she hadn’t read the whole interview because she is “too scared to look at it”. In an attempt to verify parts of the 2011 interview, Kimmel quizzed her. 
 
 “Is any of that true?” he tried again. “Define true,” she replied. 
 
 
 
 A White House official denied the allegations from the magazine, saying: “These are old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election.” 
 
 Last week, Melania Trump broke her silence about the speculation over her marriage amid rumours regarding her husband’s fidelity. 
 
 The first lady’s spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, on Friday criticised “a laundry list of salacious and flat-out false reporting”. It came after Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, denied having an affair with the president. 
 
 The Daniels statement released on Tuesday ends with an appeal to follow her on Instagram, where she posted a photo of herself lying on a bed with the caption, “Relaxing before the big night.” 

 On Tuesday night, Stormy Daniels appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to… not exactly talk about the alleged affair with Donald Trump. 
 
 Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the interview by addressing her “official statement” that was released just prior to her sit-down that completely denies she ever had a sexual relationship with the then-reality star. However, Kimmel did some investigative work after he noticed that the signature on the new statement doesn’t exactly look like the signature found in her previous statement nor on her autographs of her head shots. 
 
 Interesting 1. Signed statement from Stormy sent by Michael Cohen when story first surfaced 2. BuzzFeed obtained this signed statement today. We don’t know who sent it in. 3. Stormy’s autograph. Look at the difference. The BuzzFeed obtained one looks very different. pic.twitter.com/aUklu9QUZ1 — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 30, 2018 
 
 “Did you sign this letter that was released today?” Kimmel asked. 
 
 “I don’t know, did I?” Daniels responded. “That doesn’t look like my signature, does it?” 
 
 “So you’re saying, perhaps, this letter was written and released without your approval,” he followed up. 
 
 Daniels simply made a look and laughed, hinting that she may be bound to a non-disclosure agreement. 
 
 “Do you know where it came from? Do you have any idea?” Kimmel then asked. 
 
 “I do not know where it came from,” she answered. “It came from the internet!” 
 
 She also joked that based on the internet, she also “works for the FBI” and she’s “a man.”. 
 
 “Is that right? Well, we’ll have to do a full examination,” Kimmel joked. 
 
 Daniels has caused quite a firestorm in recent weeks after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen paid the porn star $130,000 to refrain from speaking about her alleged affair with Trump during the 2016 election. 
 
 Later on during the interview, Kimmel attempted to have her reenacted what may have happened with Trump using puppets. Let’s just say he wasn’t successful. 
 
 Watch the interview above, via ABC. 
 
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 Donald Trump issued his first State Of The Union address tonight, somehow managing to clear the extraordinarily low bar he’s successfully convinced the nation to lower its expectations to accept, in so far as he didn’t, like, burn Hillary Clinton in effigy from the center of the House, or call directly for Robert Mueller’s head. Still, that’s just our assessment from watching the thing from afar; what’s the read from someone who (hypothetically) knows Trump a little better? 
 
 That’s presumably at least part of what Jimmy Kimmel was hoping to find out when he booked adult film actress Stephanie Clifford—a.k.a. Stormy Daniels—for tonight’s edition of his ABC talk show. The Wall Street Journal has repeatedly suggested that Daniels had an affair with Trump several years ago, and that she was recently paid $130,000 to stay quiet about their relationship. Indeed, she reportedly issued a statement earlier today, re-asserting that no such affair happened, which didn’t stop her from joking with Kimmel in a pre-taped bit, holding up a gagged doll of herself with a knowing look at the camera. 
 
 In the interview itself, Daniels spoke, like, well…someone talking under a pretty elaborate non-disclosure agreement, while still doing her damnedest to be an engaging talk show guest. For 11 or so minutes, Kimmel’s show basically became an elaborate, fairly gross game of charades, as he attempted to find some way to get the actress to confirm or deny that she’d ever slept with Trump. Kimmel’s tactics included reading from an interview Daniels supposedly gave to In Touch magazine—one which she’s said takes at least some of her words out of context—showing signed pictures from her adult film career, and even busting out a “Stormy Daniels puppet” for an uncomfortable game of “Never Have I Ever.” 
 
 Through it all, Daniels came off as smart, funny, and a little uncomfortable. (Her most open answers coming when talking about the ways the current attention on her, and the rumors people have been making up about her online, have affected her family.) The more Kimmel pushed, though, the more he comes off as maybe a tad too interested in Donald Trump’s sex life, given that there’s presumably no legal way Daniels would actually be allowed to let anything slip. (Also, while we’re not exactly racing to defend him, it’s not like “cheating on his wife while being a reality TV host” is anywhere even remotely near the top of Donald Trump’s list of public offenses at this point.) The nadir might come when Kimmel busts out a bushel of carrots and asks Daniels—thankfully evasive—to pick one, “apropos of nothing”; not to throw stones, but publicly speculating on the size of someone’s dick feels kind of like something Donald Trump might do. 

 Stormy Daniels I'm Blue in the Face ... Trump Affair Never Happened! 
 
 Stormy Daniels Issues New Trump Denial, Says 'Affair Never Happened' (UPDATE) 
 
 Breaking News 
 
 Stormy Daniels says she can't say it enough -- she never banged Donald Trump, but still ... she's saying it one more time with feeling. 
 
 Stormy issued a statement Tuesday, saying she and Trump denied the affair multiple times since it allegedly went down in 2006 ... and nothing's changed. She says, "I am not denying this affair because I was paid 'hush money' as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids. I am denying this affair because it never happened." 
 
 The "overseas owned tabloid" the ex-porn star's referring to is The Wall Street Journal, which reported the alleged $130,000 payment. We checked and it's still American-owned. 
 
 There's some buzz about Stormy's signature on the statement. It looks way different from a previous denial she issued. Despite the obvious difference ... her rep, Gina Rodriguez, tells us Stormy signed both letters. 
 
 Stormy claims she won't have any further comment about Trump. Why do we doubt that? 

 Published on Jan 30, 2018 
 
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– Stormy Daniels kept people guessing about her alleged affair with President Trump Tuesday—even after a full denial was issued. In a statement, the former porn star said she was denying the affair, not because she "was paid hush money," but "because it never happened." TMZ, however, noted that the signature on the statement was very different to other examples of her signature—and Daniels herself commented on the difference when she appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live later Tuesday. "Did you sign this letter that was released today?" Kimmel asked. "I don't know, did I?" she replied. "That doesn't look like my signature, does it?" Mediaite reports that when Kimmel kept pressing, Daniels hinted that she could be bound by a non-disclosure agreement. In the rest of the interview, Daniels—who described the alleged 2006 affair in detail to In Touch magazine in 2011—acted like "someone talking under a pretty elaborate non-disclosure agreement, while still doing her damnedest to be an engaging talk show guest," according to the AV Club. She refused to discuss the alleged affair, even when Kimmel read excerpts from the In Touch interview and tried to communicate using puppets. In a pre-recorded segment, she held up a doll of herself wearing a gag when Kimmel held up a Trump doll. After the interview, her attorney told the Guardian that it was definitely Daniels' signature on the statement, and she was just "having fun on Kimmel and being her normal playful self."