Stormy Daniels: I’d rather be called a whore than a hypocrite

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No matter what city I am performing in, the number one inquiry is ALWAYS about the President’s anatomy. It is usually a man doing the asking! Another question I’m frequently asked is: “What is your pet peeve?” I usually give a light-hearted response that I hate it when my husband replaces the batteries in the TV remote by taking them out of something of mine (let’s pretend I am referring to my electric toothbrush). While irritating, it doesn’t compare to my actual biggest pet peeve: Hypocrites. Hypocrisy comes in many forms. Take the way that people talk about my career. Rarely, if ever, is my name spoken or written without being prefaced by mentioning my former profession. While mentioning my work in the adult industry is accurate and not something I am ashamed of nor have ever shied away from, the inclusion of the word “porn star” is used salaciously while hiding behind a premise of factual reporting. Shorts And despite the adult industry having a value in the US of tens of billions – it is intended as an insult meant to elicit negativity which results in more views and engagement. If my job was anything else, it would rarely be mentioned because “Librarian Stormy Daniels” just does not have the same clickbait potential. They use my old job as a way of quietly condemning me, while using me to make money at the same time. That’s hypocrisy. Journalists also hide behind the guise of factual reporting (though continue to be salacious) by trying to publish my “real name”. I’m delighted to say – to date, none of them have got it right. Going viral matters more to the media than facts. But my name is Stormy Daniels. It is what I want to be called, it is the name I have chosen. I am proud of who I am, what I have done, and what I have accomplished. Using my chosen name shows respect. Countless celebrities use stage names, yet only adult performers are constantly outed with such total disregard for their privacy and the safety of their families. Mainstream actors do not have their birth name (or anything other than their chosen moniker) included in everything said about them. Why are we not treated the same as others? This glaring double standard indicates we are not viewed as equally deserving of the same respect. It is also frightening that there is zero concern about potentially endangering their safety. I’ll give you an example. It’s no secret I had sex with President Trump 20 years ago. It was at a celebrity golf tournament which my publicist encouraged me to go to. I arrived at Mr Trump’s suite for dinner and he met me at the door wearing silk-satin pajamas. We had sex. Ten years later I was paid hush money to keep quiet about the encounter ahead of the 2016 election. In 2024 I testified against the President, for trying to cover up the payment. During the trial, the New York Post had no qualms about printing my (now former) home address. The defense attorney claimed they “accidentally” failed to redact my personal (and irrelevant) information before displaying it in a full courtroom. This led to damages to my property and injuries to my animals.If a publication will openly doxx in their articles, while hiding behind the premise of being factual, they should be liable for any damages that incur as a result. Good journalism means investigating and reporting important and truthful news. That’s what many of those journalists say they do. And that’s where more hypocrisy comes in. Some journalists have lost their integrity, and spread misinformation and even flat-out lies. For them, fact-checking is less important than pushing an agenda. With the advent of AI, now the lies can include fake photos or video clips. We have all noticed how negative stories and posts receive more views over positive and neutral posts. Considering this and with my approximate two million followers on social media, I decided to try a little experiment. The outcome was heartbreaking and downright scary. A very well-known magazine with millions of followers had an exclusive about a TV project I was doing for 12 hours. As soon as the story was published early in the morning, I immediately reposted it and put up my own post about it. The engagement wasn’t spectacular over the course of the day. That evening, someone made a rude comment on the post. The person had roughly a 100 followers. I replied with my own snarky comment and retweeted it. Despite containing the same information as the original post from the account with literally millions more followers, the negative post received thousands more interactions and views in an hour than the positive one did all day. I have repeated this test numerous times on various platforms with the same result every time. It is disheartening how negativity garners more attention and how quick we can be to leave a negative review or pass judgement without pause. I can’t help but wonder how much better things would be if people took that energy and put it towards positivity. Honestly, why not just say nothing at all if you cannot be kind? I do enjoy giggling at all the people who write “no one cares” on every post I make, while they simultaneously prove they are hypocrites and do care (sometimes A LOT) through the act of commenting in the first place. The biggest example of hypocrisy is when a person complains about an adult performer (current or former) being somewhere other than on their screen. I have heard stories from members of the adult industry being reported to their place of employment, classes they attend, falsely accused of crimes, and reported to child services. Do I even need to point out the hypocrisy that the only way for someone to recognize a porn star is by watching their content? Female performers are almost always the ones being discriminated against and called names while male performers are rarely treated poorly. Pause and ask yourself: what do you think of a woman who performed in 150 adult movies? Now, what do you think of a man who did the same? What if in the same length of time, he did over 5,000 scenes? Is she the whore and he the hero even though he performed in far more scenes? My question for those who condemn the adult industry is this: So… you don’t want people to do porn, but you won’t let them do anything else? I think that requires a hard look at yourself in the mirror. I, for one, would much rather be considered a whore by a hypocrite than be considered a hypocrite by a whore.