New Stormy Daniels claim raises dark questions

bdmetronews Desk ॥ The Stormy Daniels saga took an even darker turn on Friday morning during an interview with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski. That’s when the attorney for the adult film star — who drew a following in January after alleging that she was paid hush money to keep quiet about an affair she says she had with Donald Trump — revealed that physical violence was floated as potential punishment if Daniels came forward about the alleged relationship.

“Was she threatened in any way?” Morning Joe co-host Brzezinski asked lawyer Michael Avenatti.

“Yes,” Avenatti answered.

“Was she threatened physical harm?” a stunned Brzezinski continued.

“Yes,” Avenatti replied, adding that he would not say anything further about it before the 60 Minutes Daniels interview airdate, March 25.

Although largely overlooked in discussions about domestic violence, psychological abuse — also called emotional abuse — is as common as physical abuse in America — and its effects can be just as life-altering.

“There’s a cycle of violence that happens to people, and everybody thinks that unless you appear with a black eye that it’s not domestic violence,” Wendy Dickson, director of domestic violence services at the YWCA in Evanston, Ill., tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “But really, the emotional abuse is much more difficult for people to get over.”

The American Medical Association classifies psychological abuse as a form of domestic violence, one that it says “can precede or accompany physical violence as a means of controlling through fear and degradation.”

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