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Deal dash. Com and see how much you can save im Natasha Bertrand at the pentagon. And this is cnn Closed Captioning is bronchi biu cora help maintain a healthy urinary tract with you, cora, having utis for ten years, you cora, we make you ti Relief Products we also make proactive urinary tract health products. You the lifestyle tried today at you core. Com welcome to this Special Edition of ac30 60. The Karen Mcdougal interview. Mcdougal is one of the women at the center or former president trumps Hush Money Trial. She says they had an Affair Starting in 2006 that lasted around ten months the former president denies an affair with mcdougal or a sexual relationship with Stormy Daniels Karen Mcdougal was paid by the company that owns the National Enquirer for her story as part of a catch and kill scheme. I spoke to her about it back in 2018 Karen Mcdougal had never told her story on camera in full until this interview, and shes never done an interview like it since if we could just start at the beginning, how did you meet donald trump . I met donald when they were filming the Celebrity Apprentice at the playboy mansion. They were filming there and i was hired as one of the playmates to work at the pool party scene hi, brian actually. And youd worked for playboy for some time . Yes. I after becoming play mated the year i was required to work, so many events with playboy and that was one of the events that i thought would be fun. And i worked it and there are a lot of women there and we just saw had a great time and thats where we met. How did you actually meet he said hello, like he would to anybody. And then throughout the night, it was kind of obvious that there was an attraction from his part to me. And i kinda just blew it off you can see him looking at you. Oh, i could see it. And the playboy bunny, shes like the house mom is what we call her. She actually made a comment like, wow, this guys really into you, and thats when i started paying attention and he was and i smile that it thought it was kind of cute and funny. And then at the end of the night after striking up many conversations we exchange, he actually asked me to write his phone my phone number down for for him to keith. Did you we wanted to see him again i thought it would be nice to communicate with him and talk to him. I actually at that point, didnt consider dating are going out with him, but i did think hes an interesting person here. His brilliant and i like smart minds and i think that i was interested in the communication for sure. So when was the next communication i believe we talked right away on the phone and i think we talked for about a week on the phone before his next visit to la. And that was his birthday, which i think is june 12, would he would he call you . Call me. I would call him vice versa. So you had his phone number . I havent many of us on earth, yes. Do you have his Address Number for him or did you have to go through Somebody Else . I have as direct phone number, i have quite a few of the direct phone number as i also had his Bodyguard Case Phone Number i had is personal secretaries phone number. And what were the conversations like . The conversations were like any other conversation you have with a nice person. We got along great. We had respect for each other. We had fun, we were funny together. We had a good time we would talk about anything and everything from what kind of foods you like to house your family. He asked me how my family was two politics to anything like just normal everyday life conversations. So tell me about your first date our first date i was told we were going to go to the Beverly Hills hotel for dinner so he had told me that keith has bodyguard was going to pick me up at a certain time and he didnt and then we were driving over to the Beverly Hills hotel and keith drove around to the back and he said, we have to get out here because we dont want to walk through the hotel. And at that minute, im like thinking to myself, are we good . Going to her room because i thought we were having dinner at the Beverly Hills hotel in the actual restaurant. Right . Well, we did have dinner at the Beverly Hills hotel, but in his bungalow instead, we had dinner there for a few hours or as we talked for a few hours, we had a great time. Were getting to know each other. Were talking about his birthday. And then as the night ended we we were intimate. When you got to the remal hotel and keatts said, were not gonna go through the lobby. Were gonna go was it to a room at the Beverly Hills hotel or a sweet or it was a bundle and back its the one he said he always stayed at. And in fact, every time that i met him, there was the same exact bumble bungalow and hes told that the nice has been all they had. So i guess thats why he chose that one, but thats thats where we went every time. Were you concerned when you realize youre not going to go out to dinner, youre actually going to be getting into bungalow. I think that first night i was concerned because i didnt i wasnt expecting to go to a hotel room or bungalow, whatever you wanna call it i actually thought we were going to so i was a big concern and i think at that moment is when i realized maybe Something Else has gone on, you know, im a smart girl. I i probably could have figured it out, but i really wasnt thinking. I think i was so nervous to actually meet with him in general that it kinda just didnt even think it wasnt my Thought Process at that moment. I was just too nervous to actually meet him. So were you tract it to track to him. Yeah. Hes hes a nice looking man and i like just charisma. I think i love good, great posture. Hes got great posture during his nice show. Theres the sex was consensual it was pretty clear on yes and what happened afterward after that night, you said it ended on a strange now, so what happened after . You had been intimate well, after we had been instrument, he he tried to pay me and i actually did not to take that. And he actually tried to hand germany. He did he did. And i said, i mean, i just had those look of just i dont even know how to describe the look on my face must have been so sad because i had never been offered money like that before. Number one, but number two, i thought does he think that im in this for money or why im here tonight . Or is this a normal thing . I didnt know, but i looked at him and i said, thats not me. Im not that kind of girl. And he said, oh, and he said, youre really special. And i was like, thank you. I left. I actually got into the car for kids to take me home and i started crying. I was really sad and it really hurt me but i went back, hurt you that he saw you in that way . Yes. I hurt me that he saw me in that way. Light. And he obviously assumed that thats the kind of girl i was maybe because i was a playmate. I dont know. But even though youd had a night conversation and days of conversation, it hurt you that boiled down in the end to that. Its it hurt me. It did hurt me. I was crying in the backseat of the car like i said, i got home to my apartment and i cried for a lot. I felt really terrible about myself, let alone way he felt, but i felt terrible about myself and so i got over it. But did you think you would see him again . I didnt i didnt think id see him again, but then when he called, i was a bad place in life. I just came out of a bad relationship where i never felt good enough in my relationship. And not that thats any excuse. Its not. But i think i was so down on myself that when he he called and hes so sweet like what everyone sees on tv. I didnt see in that man because that man was a very sweet very respectful, very loving, very kind, and caring like thats the man isaac hes you can be very charming in person. Its very charming, is very sweet as personality to me was. Wow, like i loved it. It was great when do when was the next time you saw him you know, id have to look back at my i took journal back in the day and not for anything in particular, but i till this day i still write down everything i do during the day. Thats what i do. So if i looked at that, i could find out, but i think it was a nut same couple of days within a week because he was in town when it came to la, he was usually there between 367 between three, days and i usually saw him. You gave us the journal that you kept. You would write down on days you saw him, you you wouldnt write how his full name no, i either call them t or de because if anyone found this, i wouldnt want to to expose myself or expose him. So theres a number of days here. It looks like dozens over the course of time with those small little dt and sometimes theyre hard to see i purposely kind of Chicken Scratch to a lot on there because i know what im writing. And like i said, to this day, i still do that with my notes and where id where im at hoy talk to whatever i did i did write that down, so did i see him quite a few times, quite a bit. Absolutely. We spent a lot of time together. And did you tell friends about it at the time . I did. I told a few friends. I told my sister. I actually told my mother that i knew him and we talked on a regular basis, but i told her that we were just friends and she kinda scolded me a little bit like, i hope its only friends because, you know, is married and my guess i understand my sister actually heard him on the phone. She was with me one time and she i couldnt hold the phone because i was busy. So she put him on speaker and we were just talking. I mean, i didnt care. Its like she knew anyway. So when you have a relationship with somebody hey, you dont hide it, right . If theres feelings, you dont hide their relationship. Did he ever asked you to hide it . No, he didnt never. So there was never a conversation of dont in fact, i think once he asked does your sister no. And i said, yeah, she knows hes like all he wasnt afraid to hide it at all and you knew he was married . I did did he bring up his wife . Did you bring it up no. I i never brought up his wife. He did once and thats the only time i can remember when you said she was an intelligent one . Men she needed like, i dont know, four or five languages. But other than that, he never talked about his wife and i never brought her up. I obviously, theres a reason i dont bring it up because i felt guilty about it. So i after never seen her until the one occasion, i never correlated the two really, i just kinda out of sight out of mind when you met it was 2006 . Correct. Was this shortly after his son had been born yeah. Unless would he would he talked about his child his son . No. The only thing you said about his son was isnt the name baron a nice name . And i said, yeah, it is. I said, how did you choose that name . And he told me and thats no conversation. As you enter a relationship, obviously, in any relationship, you start to think about where this is going to go and how you feel and how did you view. It . How did you view the relationship you know, going through it when i look back where i was back then. I know its wrong. Like im really sorry for that. I know its a wrong thing to do but back in those days, sorry okay back in that de i was left was a different girl, you know, i had fine. I was in the playboy is seen i was just enjoying life as much as i could and, you know, when i got what him actually you know, there was a there was a real relationship there, there was real they were real feelings between the two of us just myself, not just him there was a real relationship there and i kinda out of sight, out of mind with everything else. And steven sayyed, i did have a lot of guilt but i still continue. You believe though that he had real feelings for you . Of course, he did. I know we did he would say that hey, were you in love with him . I lost yeah. And do you think he was in love with you . He was. Yeah. Did dont trump ever say to you that he loved you . All the time. He always told me he loved me. Yeah. Of course did he have any nicknames for you it call me baby or had call me beautiful karen what do you always see him just in los angeles. Know no, i wouldnt i actually went to a Golf Tournament with him in lake tahoe i went to his golf course and in california i went to his his golf course home in new jersey and went to his home in new york and trying to think where else i cant recall right now. Yeah. When you say what you would arrange to go some place, how would it be . I would pay for the flight. I would book at myself. I would book the hotel room if i wasnt staying with him. Usually i stayed with him, but theres been a couple of times where i didnt and then he would reimburse me. So at the flight was i dont know, los estrada number of the flight was 500. Hed give me 500 and say, heres take care of the flight and things like that. So why would he have you book all the travel and the hotel rooms theres no paper trail and did you realize that at the time . Yes, i did because he was concerned about it being revealed at some point and there being a paper trail oh, i was told this theres no people paper trail. I cant say what his reasons were about i i would assume thats the case, yes. Yes. Do you said you went to a Golf Tournament and tahoe . I did. There are other women now whove come forward saying that they also had met with him and had sex with him at that event, were you aware of any other for women . No, i was not. I mean, i was with them a lot, so i didnt see anything. But could he have stayed a day longer than me. Sure. Did you think that this relationship was going to last for a long time . Did you have you did . Yeah. I i felt it was getting much stronger you know, there were no gifts ever but a Christmas Gift on i got him a gift and then he told me the gift. He got me wasnt apartment york, but its being remodeled right now and i never saw the apartment because i ended up breaking up or ending the relationship, but that was supposedly my gift. I dont know you went to his actual apartment in trump tower . I did i didnt know i was going there i actually had a hotel room in the city at that time. Well for this trip, what was it like going at trump tower i didnt know i was at trump tower. We went into the Back Entrance, so i had no idea where we were actually going. The Back Entrance as you know, probably is more discrete. Its like a little nothing hallway versus like when you walk into the grand right. So we went to the Back Entrance and at that time i realize where were going and i said, arent you afraid to bring me here . Hes like they wont say anything. And im like, okay, so we went upstairs and we looked around to his office or to his apartment . His apartment. He showed me around where do you think of the apartment its very gold. 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Very guilty why didnt i couldnt wait to get out of the apartment actually, i think doing something but then when youre doing some are doing Something Wrong is bad enough and we are doing Something Wrong. And youre in the middle of Somebody Elses home or better, whatever that just puts it a little stab in your hearts. And i just couldnt wait to get out of the apartment. I wanted to go back to my hotel room. It made his other life more real. I was just going to say it made it more real to me. Yes. Made it more real did you see bearer in there . No, i never saw barren. So wheres this picture from . That picture is from The Apprentice release party that they had at the playboy mansion. So they filmed it like a month beforehand. Which is where i met him. And then they had the release party when The Apprentice actually aired. Thats when that one was. This is a picture with ivanka trump, Melania Trump several of your colleagues and yourself, correct did was that the first time you met millennia . It is. And honestly, if you can tell, i tried to keep my distance i tried to go as far away as i could just because i felt guilty. Do you think she knew you know maybe maybe i dont know. I was told to me that they were arguing that night and i said why hi and somebody had said probably because of you, but i dont know if thats a factor not so dont quote me on that one theres another picture its. You with with eric trump do you know where that were . Those from i believe thats from the trump vodka release party hey, that he had which was within a couple of days of that other party did it feel strange to meet his son, eric it did, but he was such a friendly guy like again, when youre doing Something Wrong, you try and push everything out of the way and make it as right as you can in your mind. I end so i met all his kids except for baron. Of course, and i just tried to shake it. But now it gets to me, but then it didnt did he ever compare you to any of his kids he hes very proud of ivanka as they should be. I mean, shes a brilliant woman. Shes beautiful, shes you know, thats his daughter and he should be prouder he said i wasnt beautiful like her and your smart girl and theres a lot of comparing, but there was some yeah. I heard a lot about her yeah. Did that strike you as odd in any way or i know a lot of, people think its odd i there has been some comments ive heard in the news he said about her at night. I think those comments arrived, but do i think its strange that a father would love his daughter . Machete brags about her . No, i brag about my dog that much. I guess. Some people seeing this are not going to believe that you had a relationship. Hope hicks has said categorically you did not have a relationship no truth to this when you heard that denial, what did you think well, i think somebody is lying and i can tell you its not me its a little hurtful, but at the same time, i have to understand like if he were to have told hips, hope that he didnt do it. I guess i understand because hes trying to protect his family, his image, things like that, but it was definitely a little like, wow, going to lie about that. Okay. When youve heard the stories of Stormy Daniels, who has come forward, who said that she was at the taco club as well . And others who said that they were there you didnt know about that at the time . No, i did not know. Does it what did you think when you heard that . My first thought was how could she have been with him when i was with him. The only time we werent together on that particular trip was when i he was on the golf course golfing. 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You korea is a lifestyle tried today at your core. Com this is a Special Edition of three 60, the Karen Mcdougal interview along with Stormy Daniels, Karen Mcdougals at the center of former president trumps ongoing Hush Money Trial she. Spoke to me back in 2018 or reveal for the first time on camera the full story about her alleged relationship with trump, which she says began in 2006, and about the payment for her silence brokered through the Parent Company of the National Enquirer Karen Mcdougal has never spoken about it in such detail on cameras since did you think maybe this would lead to a marriage maybe thats something though you liked him enough. Thats something you would have liked maybe did he at the time say tell you that you were his only girlfriend . Were did that subject we never really discussed that i knew he talked to ladies but i didnt know there was anything else. I didnt know. He was intimate with other ladies but i guess if hes makes sense, if hes doing behind his wifes back, why . I would not do it behind my back. But at that time in the frame of mind, you are in then you felt you were the only one . Yeah, i did. I thought i was the only one do you have any Text Messages . Photographs, videos, anything that would dispute the hope hicks a statement that this never happened let me just say this. If youre in a loving relationship, du try and collect evidence thats not what you were thinking about . No, not at all not at all. In fact, the only thing that i have really is my journal that i keep. And like i said, i still do it to this day. It wasnt out to get anybody or gosh, get anyone in trouble. But those are my notes. Those are from me. Know, when you care about somebody, you dont try and set them up in any way, shape, or form thats my opinion. This is a hard question to ask, but you said youd had texts that first time all these times you saw him. This was ongoing sexual relationship . Absolutely. Can you estimate how many times you actually saw him again when youre in a relationship, du count, how many . Times you have sex . No. However, i can tell you we saw each other a minimum five times a month up to bigger numbers per month. So we of course, of how long over the course of 2006 through i think i ended the relationship april 2007. So we were together ten months before i chose to end it. So we saw each other quite frequently. So dozens of times you were together, he dozens of times you were intimate . Yes. Doesnt many dozen times this is another to question. And again, you dont have to answer it, but its been raised with other people did he ever use protection . No. No, i didnt. Was that something you thought about or they didnt concern you at the time you know, we talked about it right beforehand he he was starting to and then hes its like i dont like these things and, you know, we discuss, things. Do you do babylon . We were just honest with each other and we didnt we didnt use any you talked about ending the relationship ship who ended the relationship . I didnt well, i was just feeling so guilty. It was just digging inside me. I think the excitement of it took over for awhile and i did care about the man. Im not going to lie. So that made it hard to end it, but i think i just started feeling so bad about myself off like, how could i do those to a myself but to be to a family, whether they get along or not, its still a family i just needed to get out of it. I i i just needed to get out of it. It just was tearing me apart in a long run. Thats a hard thing to do to end a relationship. Any relationship, it was very hard but i knew i needed to get out how did you end he wasnt in town. And i just this simply select this isnt working for me and its like, why not . And i told them i blamed it on my mom. I said luck. 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I had feelings for the guy, but not what i know. Now while he was married at that point in time, i would never do that again. No. You didnt speak you told friends is anybody would tell friends about a relationship . Sure. But you didnt at any point during this time 2006, 2007, 2008 tried to reach out or did you do at any point . Relationship ended . Think about telling your story publicly, telling about the relationship. I mean, some people would have considered telling their story that never crossed your mind. Yeah when you have when you have feelings in a relationship and you cared about somebody, why would you want to destroy their life anymore than you might have already . Destroy their life so at what point did i mean, obviously, dont trump announces for president , hes going to run he gets the republican nominee im a nation at what point does this start to come back . Or this this become suddenly . In the forefront for you again i was watching the Republican Debate with a friend named johnny is one of my good friends from many years ago he said, you know the story is a big story and i said no way its not going to happen ago, you know where i stand on this, jonny, i will never say anything. We dropped it. And of course, johnny is a democrat but im a republican so youre republican . I am. And i voted for donald. Yes, i did. There you have it . Yes. I heard republican so we dropped it. But then later on maybe a week or two later, an x friend or an old friend of mine started on social media talking about my relationship and she was part of that. She she knows everything she had starting started putting it out there, so it was being seen. So i came to johnny one. Diana said johnny, look what shes doing. I said do i need to worry about this and hes like absolutely you do. He said you need to get ahead of the story now before Everyone Else case your story and manipulates it anyway, they want to manipulate it and make it this very ugly thing. You need to control your story and you need to tell your truth. And i said, yes, youre right. So thats what we decided to do and thats where Jonny One Day comes comes over and hes like our mutual friend that we have found found this guy named keys also was an attorney for Stormy Daniels. I didnt know that. Yes. And others in this business clearly. So what what did you do then . You contacted davidson . I didnt Johnny Johnny and the get your friend contacted davidson within a matter of a couple of days, keith came out and we all had lunch together and he wanted to know details. So read sat down at lunch for a couple hours giving details and keith is like this, the storys worth many, many millions and im like okay, so we talked about it and thats when keith brought it to ami. So did you know that keith your attorney, was going to go to ami, which is the Parent Company which owns National Enquirer and other magazines. He said, ami i didnt know what am i was to be honest, he said ami we have this company that theyll probably want to hear it your story. So what was the thought of selling the story in your mind to get my truth out there. I wasnt looking for money clearly, but when he said its worth many millions, im like you that was something it was hard to pass up sure. Of course. Did keyed have a meeting with me . Did you have a meeting with him . Dead . We had a meeting with ami, you oldham, your story. I tell him the story. They actually didnt think it was very credible, even though off the record they said dillon dylan believes your story, but clearly when they came back, they said it wasnt believed the ball on my dylan bleed being dylan howard and hes with ami so they had like a 12 hour window to i know im probably skipping around. Im sorry. They had a 12 hour window to accept whether they wanted the story or not, and they didnt want the story. Well, then the republican, he won the republican nomination and ami was interesting then the dragon. Once dont trump won the republican nomination. Cards, youre saying ami suddenly came back to you with interests well, to keith . Yes. To us for the story. Yeah. What do you think it was that it was after donald trump was the republican nominee that they came back they wanted to squash story youre saying they wanted to protect donald trump im assuming so, yeah but they offer which we didnt discuss yet or havent gosse was, you know, they had offered me a big, contract for work from my lane and fitness and things like that might my life has always been health and fitness so they said they were going to have you be a column as you would write columns about health and fitness, correct . They said id write columns. I would get one call, one article per month okay. Magazine, one article per month and Star Magazine for two years. And then four columns per month on rater online for two years on top of that two magazine cover and the reasoning was like, youve been a successful model fitness, et cetera. We want to help you continue and we actually want to rebrand you. And you youre older now, so we want to jumpstart into a new career for you and really gets you out there to work. And im like this is perfect. Like who does what model wouldnt want that especially as an older your model, youre like, oh, this is great, right yeah. But then the side deal was oh, were squash the story. Okay. Its a winwin for me. Like i get the work my story doesnt have to come out. Did you know that they were buying the life rights to your story i didnt i knew i could never talk about him. Sure. So that was for you this wasnt a nondisclosure agreement to you. This was a great business opportunity. Youre going to get paid youre going to be able to have right columns. Youre going to launch a new aspect of your career. Youre going to get the cover of the magazines and on top of it youre going to sell them your story, but theyre not going to publish it. And therefore, correct, theres not gonna be any ramifications craft the story, getting at absolutely. I mean, who wouldnt want to get to work. And then that work could leave to other work or to other work who work can lead. Of course, i was excited. So in an essence, you were happy to have the story killed yeah, of course, like i said, i never wanted to come forward. And you were going to get 150,000 for it for having killed and launching potentially a new career well, more importantly, i looked at it as i was doing work. The columns, the covers, and im getting paid for that. Oh, and My Life Story is like never has to be shared. It was more about the way it was presented. It was more about detecting me. It was more about we dont want to turn us your image. We want to keep your brand wholesome and hole. So unlike thats awesome, thats great. Thats the way i perceive this. Contract. It was a whitlam like i said, have you ever heard the term at that point, catch and kill you . I had not. Do you know what Catching Killers now . I do now yeah. Now, whats your understanding of a catchandkill is catches from what im learning, a catch and kill is somebody for legacy for yourself, for example, taking a story about, somebody you like or care about over friendship about. And they squash a story. So it doesnt hurt you so get them. Did you know that thats what whos going thats the allegation of what was going on here. Did you did you realize that at the time i knew the story wasnt gonna be printed yeah. Why do you think they swatch to the story . Back then or now yeah. Im they they they didnt want to hurt him you think is because of a personal relationship . With the guy who runs ami is friends with donald trump do you think i mean, you wouldnt know this, but do you think donald trump would have been aware . Of of this of this deal that they were doing him, that they were allegedly doing him this favor i wouldnt know but based on what im learning, as were all learning together as weve read. And one of the big complaints with why i think my contract is legal is because his attorney was talking to my attorney, michael. Youre saying Donald Trumps personal attorney, michael corrects. Was talking with him without me even knowing without my knowledge, i would assume that maybe he knew i know his attorney did. I cant say that he knew, but his attorney. How do you know that Michael Cohen and your attorney, Keith Davidson, were in communication . I didnt know. Im just learning this as your loneliness. Its been reported and my my they know and to you, the idea that Michael Cohen would be in communication with your attorney at the time . Theoretically, there would be no reason for Michael Cohen to be having communication with your attorney because this was a deal between Keith Davidson, you and write why was he involved in my deal . And why was on i told him that he was involved in my deal. Thats not fair and its quite frankly illegal the how quickly was the ama . Amis deal done once we agreed upon the jobs, the financial payment, and things like that it was done very quickly in a matter of a day or two basically, i was going out of town and i said, ill get back to in a week when i get back into town, they said the deal really needs to be done now im like, okay so i think it was done within that night or the next day how do you remember what day this was or what when this was in the president ial race it was an august i sign the deal august 6 oh it was probably august 5 or fourth that we finalize and then signed on the six, but i cant tell you. I dont remember whether rice was so this is in the last month or two, or the president ial race do you think the president ial race had anything to do with this deal getting done . When im looking back at it now, possibly, yeah. If donald trump hadnt been running for president , do you believe this deal would have been made with ami knowing what you know now, probably not no, probably not. Youre pretty youre convinced now this was an effort to do favor for donald trump in the last few months of the president ial race unfortunately, yes fashion moves fast, setting trends is our business. We need to scale with Customer Demand in real time so we partner with verizon, their solution for us, a private by gi network. We now get more control of Production Efficiencies and greater agility when a custom private 5g networks, our customers get what they want when they want it. Now, or even smarter and are ready for whats next. Achieve enterprise intelligence. 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Finding the exact date ancestry at that our Family Business wa visit home serve. Com i Hanako Montgomery in tokyo. And this is cnn at the time of my interview with Karen Mcdougal in 2018, shed filed a lawsuit against ami, the Parent Company and the National Enquirer to release her from that contract, which brought her silence, but also promised her a number of opportunities with their publications. She said david pecker, an ami hadnt held up their end of the bargain weeks after this interview, she settled that suit and was released from her contract some people hearing that are gonna say, look, you want this is your inner for the money theyre going to say, okay, obviously, we are not paying you for this interview. We dont pay for interviews, but you may go from here and write a book or make a movie, or whatever it may be, two that you say what bottom line is this . Ive offered to give back the one 50 even though i only got 55 of that, ive offered to give back the one 50 just to have my my story rights back. The story is out there now im not telling the nittygritty details as you can see, im very selective in what im what im saying about our relationship im not out to make money and im out to get my rights back to prove a contract was illegal that i was taken advantage of and then go back from my life period did it anger you . I mean, its part of this big because people, the white house have said youre lying, youre not telling the truth i dont know when likes to be called a liar, but no, its more about the illegal portion of the contract and then not fulfilling what they promised me. They promised me this work to date there are only ten articles in okay . Magazine, ten articles and Star Magazine and maybe seven on redder online, right . Are line im so sick of four per month. I mean, the two years is up in august. Ive gotten really nothing out of this so you think that whole talk of helping you relaunch kind of knew a whole new phase they didnt want to help me. I thought they wanted to keep my reputation claiming from what so they wanted to rebrand me. They wanted to im an older model now. They wanted to make something a new star. They promised me all these wonderful, beautiful things. Even when i met with david pecker and dylan and keith in new york, after this is back last august they often may many more opportunities, but i havent seen anything yet. Not that thats not part of the contract, but my point is, they keep dangling the carrot im not playing that game anymore are you aware of or have you spoken to any women with similar stories who have come forward no, i havent spoken anyway i know other ive heard other stories from other people, but its hearsay. Its not like the girl directly to me, but no, i cant comment on that. Would you have come forward public . Hopefully if Stormy Daniels hadnt come forward do you think that made an impact on you i definitely think it made a little bit of an impact on me it gives you two more. It takes a little bit of the fairway however, i probably would have just because as im learning about this contract and the people involved in the way i was treated dad and all the behind the scenes, things that i wasnt aware about. And all the work im not getting which a contracted for yeah, i probably would have come forward if you didnt get what you were told in a contract workwise wouldnt you Say Something chorus you have any do you have any regrets about the relationship . Did you say you had with him back then . Yeah. The only regret i have about the relationship that i had with donald was the fact that he was married. If you werent married i wouldnt have any regrets because he treated me very kind he was very respectful as i told you, it was a Good Relationship while it happens. Now, had i known at the time, there were supposedly all these there are women. Now, i went a bit in the relationship, but i didnt know that at the time. So no, no regrets. Accept the fact that he was married. If Melania Trump is watching this, what would you who won her to know its a tough one more say to her. Yeah, what can you say . Hey accept. Im sorry im sorry. I wouldnt want it done to me im sorry that does it for this Special Edition of ac30 60, the Karen Mcdougal, the interview the news continues on cnn. Have a good night id front next, Justice Samuel alito throwing his wife under the bus is calls growth for him to cuz himself from any cases related to trump, those crucial opinions are expected any day and the nations top constitutional expert, laurence tribe, is out front plus m tg versus aoc. Marjorie taylor greene. Now doubling down after a late night house brawl that played out on camera top democrat and that hearing room is my guest and cnns exclusive video of Sean Diddy Combs physically assaulting his former girlfriend, a reporter who has long covered the mobile is out front. Is this just the tip of the iceberg . Lets go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. My wife did it. That is the excused from Supreme Court Justice Samuel alito, as voices are growing louder for him to recuse himself from two crucial cases tied to trump cases that the nine justices are deciding right now, we could find out and some of these n0 day, theyre related to trumps efforts to overturn the election. And that is why this image is at issue image obtained by the New York Times was taken justay