When the verdict was handed down that former President Donald Trump was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to manipulate the 2016 election results — Stormy Daniels was shooting another flick.
"We were in the middle of shooting our movie that we're producing called 'Decoy' and we got a text so we put her in front of the TV and recorded so it was pretty pretty exciting," said her life partner Barrett Blade during a phone interview with Erin Burnett on CNN's "Out Front."
Daniels, the porn star who was paid $130,000 in hush money by Trump's former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen to stay mum about an alleged 2006 affair in and testified as a star witness in the seven-week trial, felt incredible ease for the first time in awhile.
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The emotional toll is palpable, he explained.
"She's still pretty stoic," he said. "I think she's relieved. It's is a big weight offer her shoulders at this point."
Daniels was called to testify and later it was revealed she wore a bulletproof vest to the courthouse to ward off potential threats to her life.
When she did testify, she described in graphic detail the unprotected sexual romp in the Lake Tahoe hotel room during a celebrity golf tournament that she alleges took place.
Trump denied the encounter happened.
At one point Trump’s lawyers asked Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan declare a mistrial.
"We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning," Todd Blanche wrote at the time. "The guardrails were thrown aside. That testimony was so unduly prejudicial to Trump and the charges in this case and the testimony about the incident in 2006 is way different from the stories she was pedaling in 2016."
While Merchan rejected the mistrial request, he did protest to prosecutors to narrow Daniels' testimony.
Trump defense lawyer Susan Necheles pressed the woman for purportedly appearing in the trial out of spite.
When she asked Daniels if she wanted Trump to go to jail, the adult actress said: “If he is found guilty, absolutely."
Barrett Blade still fears she and Daniels will have to look over their shoulders now that Trump was found to be a convicted felon by a jury of his peers.
"What happens next," he asked. "For lack of a better word, what crap that's going to happen, you know?"
"So I guess we take it day by day; it's all we currently can do."
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