Former Playboy model tells CNN he "was in love" with Trump

Karen McDougal received $ 150,000 in 2016 to remain silent about romance with the president

Karen McDougal ,former Playboy model who claims to have had an affair with the president of the United States , Donald Trump , for 10 months from 2006, said -in an interview with Anderson Cooper 360 program, CNN network broadcast in the evening who was in love with the tycoon.

Asked if Trump ever said he loved her, Karen replied, "All the time. He always said he loved me. "When asked if he thought the case would end in marriage, she said," Maybe. "

It was her first interview since she filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the publisher American Media Inc. (AMI) whose boss, David Pecker, is a personal friend of Trump. She claims that the company paid her $ 150,000 in 2016 to remain silent about the alleged novel.

She claims to have been threatened by AMI - after she spoke to the New Yorkermagazine   last month - that "any new revelation would break the contract" and could "cause considerable monetary damages."

Karen told CNN that she is speaking out publicly because "I want to share my story because everyone is talking about her."

The former model said she and Trump had sex dozens of times without protection after the Los Angeles relationship began in June 2006, not long after their wife, Melania, gave birth to their son Barron.

She said she met the current president at the Playboy Mansion during the filming of Celebrity Apprentice , a reality show he presented. "I was attracted to him. He is a handsome man. I liked your charisma. "

Karen, who was Playboy's Playmate of the Year 1998, is the second woman to challenge Trump's allies' efforts since the presidential election to try to keep the president's alleged extramarital affairs secret.

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, sued the president on March 6, saying that Trump never signed an agreement to silence her about an "intimate" affair between them. Daniels received $ 130,000 for the deal.