Yet, spunky Stephanie survived to become a school topper, learn dance, have good friends, indulge in a passion for horses. Then - the engineer father’s departure from the marriage, an enraged mother who fell apart and never managed to get up again - it is a familiar but sombre story about a poor white family in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. But primarily, Stormy comes across as a positive personality, self-aware, funny and warm, willing to do what it takes to survive, sharp, honest.Ĭhapter one reveals security till age four. And yet she seems to have sported a positive attitude to rise beyond her circumstances - helped by supportive friends, occasional attention from her distant father and kind stepmother and later, love from an accepting musician. There is no hate in her tone just acceptance - of the difficult choices she had to make right from childhood, of being termed ‘white trash’ - by a school friend’s mother. Through a book that starts off with a chapter on her deprived childhood, Stormy reveals, step by step, how a single sexual encounter in 2006 led to unexpected and unwanted spotlight, all because the other person in question was “a goofy reality TV star who now lives at 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue.” So the lady has done what she feels is best under the circumstances: “Here’s my story. Some term her a ‘greedy whore’ while others find her gutsy and honest. All through her involuntary media spotlight, Daniels has been reviled and praised in equal measure. And while the Trump-Daniels legal saga is too complicated to relate, it does denote the shameful tabloidisation of political life in America today. A non-judgemental empathetic approach would be appropriate.įull Disclosure is the autobiography of Stormy Daniels - the adult filmstar-director-dancer who dared to sue US President Donald Trump earlier in March this year. Stormy Daniels, born Stephanie Clifford, says it all on the last page of her book, Full Disclosure: “The whole reason for everything I had done – to protect my family – was suddenly blowing up in my face.”Ī caveat: Do approach this book with an open mind.

Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels