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- We now know what porn star Stormy Daniels says in her upcoming book "Full Disclosure" about Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
- She says she was "terrified" of the quarterback in 2006 after future President Donald Trump had him take her back to her hotel room.
- Michael Avenatti, Daniels's attorney, said they would issue no further comment regarding the passage on Roethlisberger.
Porn star Stormy Daniels says in her upcoming book "Full Disclosure" that she was "terrified" of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger during a 2006 incident that took place after her alleged sexual encounter with future President Donald Trump at a Lake Tahoe celebrity golf tournament.
Daniels rose to prominence in 2018 after it was revealed that Trump's former longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid her $130,000 just before the 2016 presidential election to stay silent about her allegations of a 2006 affair. Cohen last month pleaded guilty to eight felony counts in federal court, including two related to campaign-finance violations. One of those was in connection with the Daniels payment.
CNN reported after reviewing a copy of "Full Disclosure," in which she dives into her account of the alleged 2006 affair with Trump, Daniels said she met up with Trump the day after their encounter. It was during that meet-up that Trump introduced her to Roethlisberger.
At the end of the night, Daniels said Trump asked Roethlisberger to escort her back to her hotel. Daniels wrote in her book that Roethlisberger asked her for a "good night kiss," which she refused. She added that Roethlisberger pushed lightly on her hotel room door as they stood outside it.
"I was terrified," she wrote. "I am rarely terrified."
After her initial rejection, Daniels wrote that Roethlisberger responded, "Come on."
After she got inside her hotel room, she said Roethlisberger remained outside for several minutes and knocked at her door before leaving.
A representative for Roethlisberger did not immediately return a request for comment from CNN. Roethlisberger had previously declined to comment about Daniels's previous mention of him regarding her alleged affair with Trump.
In January, when Daniels' allegation of an affair with Trump was made public, it was revealed that she told the celebrity gossip magazine In Touch in a 2011 interview, published this year, that Trump had Roethlisberger walk her back to her hotel room a day after she and Trump slept together.
Daniels told the magazine she caught the Manhattan billionaire at a party with the Steelers quarterback, who had won his first Super Bowl earlier that year. Trump, she said, made Roethlisberger "promise to take care of me."
"I stayed another 15-20 minutes, and Ben Roethlisberger actually walked me up to my room that night because Donald told him to," she continued. "Yeah, he walked me all the way to my hotel room."
Roethlisberger has twice faced allegations of rape. A civil suit was settled in 2012 over an accusation that he raped a woman in his hotel room in 2008 at the same Lake Tahoe celebrity golf tournament. Meanwhile, Trump has promoted his relationship with Roethlisberger.
Before anything was published on Daniels's latest allegations, her attorney, Michael Avenatti, hinted that Roethlisberger would be featured in his client's upcoming book. Avenatti tweeted on Tuesday that the pair had "no further comment at this time regarding the details relating to" Roethlisberger.
Avenatti did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.