From abuse as a child to the global 'stage'.
Stormy Daniels, the stage name of Stephanie Clifford, probably never even remotely imagined that one day she would become a familiar face to millions of people and the woman capable of bringing down Donald Trump, making him the first indicted president in American history .
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Clifford grew up in a run-down country house.
Hers - she recounted in the book 'Full Disclosure' - hers was a childhood of poverty and abuse since she was only nine years old.
While she was in high school she was already a stripper, thus taking her first steps in that porn industry which she climbed to the top of her receiving awards as director, writer and star.
Precisely in her role as a porn star, Clifford met Donald Trump in 2006, who was then recently married to Melania and had recently become Barron's father.
Trump was a real estate giant and a small screen star with The Apprentice.
The spark of passion between the two immediately struck: the then sixty-year-old Trump noticed the disruptive young blonde with Chanel sunglasses and invited her first to dinner and then to his room.
Their relationship had officially begun: the two met several more times, Trump called her from a private number on several occasions calling her "Honeybunch" and promised repeatedly to make her appear on her "The Apprentice".
After months Clifford hasn't answered him again.
In 2016, after Trump's candidacy, the porn star tried to sell the story of her relationship with the presidential candidate to the media and tabloids, initially without any success.
But then the publication of the 'Access Hollywood' off-air, in which Trump described his view of sex and how he touched women with vulgar language, made the story of Stormy Daniels much more attractive.
It was then that Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, offered Stormy Daniels $ 130,000 in exchange for her silence, and the woman accepted by signing the agreement on the set of her latest porn star film.
A payment over which Trump now risks prosecution.
