Live Updates: Stormy Daniels testifies at Trump hush money trial

Adult actress Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday during former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial that her publicist said she could sell the story about her encounter with the former president after he announced he was running for president in 2015.

She said "lots of people" reached out to her during this that time, CNN reports. 

She also testified that she stopped taking his calls after he told her he couldn't get her an appearance on his show "The Apprentice."

In the closing weeks of Trump’s 2016 Republican presidential campaign, his then-lawyer and personal fixer, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, $130,000 to keep quiet about what she says was a sexual encounter with Trump in July 2006, according to the Associated Press. 

The criminal trial centers on whether Trump falsified business records to reimburse Cohen paying Daniels. 

Trump denies having sex with Daniels and has said any effort to keep Daniels from talking about the story was to protect his family.

She said that Trump had called her to inform her she had been "overruled" and he couldn't get her on the show. 

She also testified that she was not threatened by him during their encounter.

"There was an imbalance of power for sure. He was bigger and blocking the way. I was not threatened verbally or physically," Daniels said, according to CNN. 

"I told very few people that we had actually had sex because I felt ashamed that I didn’t stop it," she also said.

Daniels said that the former president told her that she reminded him of his daughter.

Daniels said that Trump told her "you remind me of my daughter," adding that she was smart and blond and that some underestimate her.

He was referring to Ivanka Trump, according to NBC News.

Daniels' testimony began with the prosecution asking her about her start in the porn film industry.

She said she started at 23, according to CNN.

Trump said Tuesday morning before Daniels testified that he was just “recently" told who the witness would be and complained he should’ve been given more notice.