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In a profile for 'Vogue' published Tuesday, Stormy Daniels reveals what life has been like

since commencing her legal battle with President Donald Trump. Daniels, whose real

name is Stephanie Clifford, first made headlines when she claimed that Trump's former

lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid her off before the 2016 election to stay quiet

about her alleged affair with the president.

Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations and other charges last week.

In the magazine profile, the adult film actress says that

she has had to hire a team of three full-time bodyguards after receiving death threats,

ominous notes and suspicious substances hidden in gifts at the clubs she has visited

during her nationwide strip-club tour. "We've been at restaurants when we order food

and it's taken too long or somebody was watching and we've had to leave — like that,"

she says. According to Daniels, her newfound notoriety has also forced her to change

hotel rooms in the middle of the night. "We've been in a couple car chases," she says.

"We've had people put notes under the door, which means they know what hotel I'm in"

Daniels' new life as the face of the Trump resistance has also impacted the life of

her 7-year old daughter, as concerns for her safety have been raised. Daniels says

she had to pull her daughter out of school and hire a tutor after a man tried to take

a photo of her. She adds that while they often FaceTime, they don't see each other

in person often. "If I contact her, it makes her sad, so I just kind of have to wait

until she wants to talk to me," Daniels says. "She knows that people date

and do this and that, and she knows that Trump is somebody

I hung out with or knew three years before I even met her dad, so that's all fine,"

she continues about her daughter. "The problem is they keep using the words porn star,

and she doesn't know what a porn star is, because she doesn't know what sex is,

and I'm not quite ready to have that conversation."

Another aspect of Daniel's life which has dramatically changed is her fan base.

While middle-aged white men used to make up her crowds, now women, gay couples,

immigrants and other "assorted liberals" tend to make up the audience at her

performances. "It's pretty much these packs of women, and they are angry," she says.

She continues, "People come up and they're so emotional and they put so much on me.

They're like, 'You're going to save the world, you're a patriot, you're a hero. It's funny.

It's actually easier for me to handle the negative stuff.

It's not like I turned on Twitter today and was called a whore for the first time."

And while many people have made Daniels a face for the resistance against Trump,

thats a label she isn't too comfortable with. Says Daniels, "When I started this,

I just wanted to save my own ass. Not everybody else's."

Concludes Daniels: "I'm just the lesser of two evils. Trump or Stormy?

Which one am I gonna pick? Well, if I have to pick one, she's got better hair."

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For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.