Live updates: Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump hush money trial

She started modelling at 21 to get better performance slots and headlining.

That led to adult films in much the same way, first as an extra, she says: “Just doing one you can say you’ve ‘done’ it, and that bumps up the pay grade.”

She got a contract at 23 and started writing for adult films six months later.

Daniels also wrote two books and appeared in the movies The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, the TV show Dirt with Courtney Cox, and music videos for Maroon 5 and Rob Zombie.

Daniels says she started dancing on weekends in a club while in high school where she could “make more in two nights than I did shovelling manure eight hours a day.”

She moved out of her mother’s home when she was 17. She was “neglectful” and would “disappear for days at a time.

“We lived in a bad neighborhood and she would just vanish.”

Stormy Daniels begins by giving a brief overview of her life – born in Baton Rouge, her parents divorced when she was four, she lives in Florida with her partner and shares custody with her daughter.

She came from a “very low-income family” but attended a “private, strict elementary school” before graduating from Scotlandville Magnet High School in 1997. She wanted to be a veterinarian and received a scholarship for veterinary medicine from Texas A&M.

She was the editor of her high school newspaper and a member of the 4H Club, an equestrian club, and a ballet company.

Nothing further. Franklin is off the stand.

Judge Merchan has asked attorneys to approach the bench.

After seeing the passage with the words of his mother, the court is shown another passage from the introduction and an excerpt from the acknowledgements page where Trump thanks the co-author/ghostwriter Meredith McIver, Random House editors, publishers and publicists.

Prosecutors are stressing to the jury that Trump wasn’t just a name attached to the book but was responsible for the words inside of it.

We see this from Trump’s book: How to Get Rich:

“Trust in God and be true to yourself” –MARY TRUMP, MY MOTHER

When I look back, that was great advice, concise and wise at once. I didn’t really get it at first, but because it sounded good, I stuck to it. Later I realized how comprehensive this is–how to keep your bases covered while thinking about the big picture. It’s good advice no matter what your business or lifestyle.