Porn actress Stormy Daniels will today sit for a highly-anticipated interview that could shed new light on the affair she says she had with Donald Trump a decade before his election as president.
Contrary to its usual practice, CBS has not released excerpts of the interview, which will air today at 7:00 pm local time on the network's flagship "60 Minutes" programme.
Daniels told The Washington Post her work in adult entertainment had allowed her to develop a "thick skin," but "nothing could truly prepare someone for this."
She said she "simply wanted to tell my personal truth and defend myself."
Daniels has previously spoken about the affair, including in a recent post on Twitter in which she said: "Technically I didn't sleep with the POTUS 12 years ago. There was no sleeping (hehe) and he was just a goofy reality TV star."
Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, has teased the interview, posting a picture on Twitter of a DVD along with the text: "If 'a picture is worth a thousand words,' how many words is this worth????? #60minutes #pleasedenyit."
Former Republican senator and two-time presidential candidate Rick Santorum told CNN the situation is one the president "can't win."
"It's just a matter of letting these folks say the things they have to say."
The White House has denied any sexual encounter between Trump and Daniels, who has offered to return the USD 130,000 she received so that she can be free to "speak openly and freely about her prior relationship with the president and the attempts to silence her."