Stormy Daniels on Donald Trump: Porn star 'embellished' parts of interview on alleged affair, body language expert claims

Ella Wills27 March 2018

Stormy Daniels "embellished" parts of her tell-all interview about her alleged affair with Donald Trump, a leading body language expert has claimed.

In a TV interview last night, Ms Daniels, 39, claimed she slept with Mr Trump in 2006 and was threatened with physical harm in a Las Vegas car park in 2011 if she went public over the alleged tryst.

After studying the adult film star’s body language on CBS's 60 Minutes, behavioural psychologist Jo Hemmings said she believes Ms Daniels is telling the "absolute truth" for the first six or seven minutes of the interview.

But Ms Hemmings, who is the consultant psychologist on ITV's Good Morning Britain, argued that Ms Daniels shook her head during key moments of the interview after this time which indicates less sincerity.

The actress gave an interview on the alleged affair, which aired on CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday

“She holds very direct eye contact, she mimics the interviewer and she is very quick to answer questions,” Ms Hemmings said of the first six or seven minutes of the interview.

Ms Daniels said she first met Mr Trump at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, California, in July 2006, where she claimed to have spanked the president with a copy of Forbes magazine featuring his photograph on the front cover.

The body language expert said she believed the story as Ms Daniels “is very confident in the way she tells it”.

However, the psychologist said Ms Daniels’ behaviour changes when interviewer Anderson Cooper asks whether the president had showed signs of wanting to continue to see her.

Ms Hemmings said the porn star “shakes her head the whole time” while saying Mr Trump was “for sure” trying to get her to keep coming back.

The psychologist suggested this is a “very big giveaway” that Ms Daniels might not be telling the truth.

She said: “I think she had some sort of dalliance with Mr Trump, but then I think what happened after that was her pursuing him.”

“She starts shaking her head and blinking more,” the psychologist added.

Ms Hemmings added that the porn star does not hold eye contact with the interviewer as much after this moment, showing less self-confidence.

“She doesn’t get her composure back, but she tries,” the psychologist said.

The US president has denied allegations made by Ms Daniels
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The psychologist said Ms Daniels also shook her head when she made her closing statement that Mr Trump "knows I'm telling the truth" which hinted that she had embellished parts of the story.

Ms Hemmings said: “She doesn’t look any less confident but the giveaway is that she is shaking her head. That’s called a ‘tell’.

“Her head is saying ‘no’ but she is saying ‘yeah’. It’s a hard thing to do consciously.”

Mr Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen have denied all allegations against them.

Ms Daniels' own lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said Mr Trump’s lawyers have claimed she is liable for damages “in excess of $20 million” for violating a non-disclosure agreement she signed in exchange for £92,000 days before Mr Trump was elected president in November 2016.

She has previously denied having a sexual relationship with Mr Trump but told CBS that she had lied on these occasions.

She said she had not met Mr Trump again after a second meeting in July 2007, but that he continued to call her until 2010.

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