Former Playmate Karen McDougal: Trump Tried to Pay Me After Sex

CNN aired a bombshell interview detailing the alleged 10-month affair between McDougal and Trump.

Karen McDougal speaking to Anderson Cooper (CNN)
Karen McDougal speaking to Anderson Cooper (CNN)

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal told CNN in an exclusive interview Thursday night that Donald Trump tried to pay her after having sex during their alleged 10-month affair more than a decade ago.

“After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually didn’t know how to take that,” McDougal told CNN’s Anderson Cooper of their first alleged intimate exchange, adding that she began crying in the backseat of the car taking her home afterward.

“I got home to my apartment and I cried a lot. I felt really terrible about myself.”

McDougal also told Cooper she felt “so guilty” about the fact that President Trump was married to First Lady Melania at the time, and noted that he drew comparisons between McDougal and his eldest daughter, Ivanka.

“He said I was beautiful like her,” McDougal told Cooper. “And, you know, ‘You’re a smart girl.’ There wasn’t a lot of comparing, but there was some. I heard a lot about her.”

Watch the full interview below.

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