“So I was very angry in writing that,” she told Channel 9 journalist Liz Hayes. “And now that the book is out and people are reading about it, and it’s all over the internet I actually feel pretty terrible about it … in a way it’s body shaming.”

“Did you want to humiliate him?” Hayes asked.

“No. Absolutely not, which is why I feel a little conflicted about the book,” Ms Daniels answered. “I did not want to hurt him. My intention was for people to stop hurting me.”

Ms Daniels said she still had “no idea” why she agreed to have sex with Mr Trump, describing it as “90 seconds that I never thought about really again” until the US election.