Peacock Documentary “Stormy” Tells Timeless Life or Death Story

March 9, 2024
DARKLADY

Award-Winning Adult Director’s Story Likely to Resonate with Women.

According to director and producer Sarah Gibson, Stormy Daniel’s “story is timeless because what happened to Stormy is going to happen to women forever.” On March 18, 2024, the popular adult performer and director who zoomed to international attention in 2018 due to an alleged tryst with The Apprentice star Donald Trump in 2006 will bare more than her body during Stormy, a nearly two-hour documentary on Peacock about her life since then.

While the average woman may balk at the kind of work that now 44-year-old Daniels has done for the past 20 years, many will likely feel an uncomfortable affinity with the former porn star. That may change when she confesses that she blames herself for what she alleges happened between her and Trump in his hotel room. The LA Times quotes her as saying, “To this day, I blame myself and have not forgiven myself because I didn’t shut his ass down in that moment, to maybe make him pause before he tried it with someone else. The hardest part about all of this is that I feel partially responsible for every woman that could have come after me.”

The biographical documentary, directed and produced by Gibson in conjunction with co-producer Erin Lee Carr, will premier mere days before the now-former president begins his first criminal trial. Ironically, the case concerns the $130,000 hush-money payment that Daniels says she received in 2016 in exchange for her silence about the sexual encounter in Lake Tahoe, NV during a charity golf tournament.

But her ongoing legal battles are not the only focus of the biography. The rise and fall of her former lawyer, Michael Avenatti, gets the treatment, as well. Famous for his flamboyant personality, he was convicted of stealing nearly $300,000 worth of proceeds from her book, Full Disclosure, in 2022. His recent appeal in federal court was unanimously rejected.

Previous projects from the producers include Orgasm inc: The Story of One Taste for Gibson and Britney vs. Spears for both her and Carr. In addition to interviews with Daniels and her friends and family, mainstream celebrities and journalists including Seth Rogen, Jimmy Kimmel, Olivia Nuzzi, and Denver Nicks share their thoughts and memories. As for Daniels, she recounts suspicious misadventures with the authorities in Canada and Ohio after news of her legal dealings with then-president Trump was revealed. In addition to her directing productivity dropping from 10 – 12 movies a year to nothing, the mother and primary breadwinner saw her third marriage end and, according to Carr, began to receive daily death threats via social media.

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told The Times that “The only thing Stormy Daniels can be relied upon is to change her story when there’s money to be made. She has already lost massively in court and owes President Trump over $600,000 for defaming him, none of which she has paid. She has never told the truth about President Trump and this ‘documentary’ is simply a last-chance, low-budget fantasy sequel for a has-been pseudo-celebrity. She has once again opened herself up to tremendous legal liability and will soon be held to account.”