Michael Avenatti is trying to get Stormy Daniel’s mental health records for his defense in his New York wire fraud case, where she alleges he stole her Trump book deal money.

Law.com reporter and editor Meghann Cuniff broke the news on Twitter:

Stormy Daniels was quick to take to Twitter to respond.

LOVING this! It highlights his desperation &just how terrible he is at law. But let me get this straight: he’s saying it’s ok to steal from someone mentally ill? The evidence speaks for itself. He’s welcome to my health records, though… because there aren’t any. What a dipshit!

Stormy Daniels goes on to say no such mental health records exist.

This is his way to imply that I am mentally unstable. He’s trying discredit and shame me, which is disgusting. His photo should be beside “grasping at straws” in the dictionary.

Avenatti’s rapid-fire tough guy talk made him cable-famous as a sort of dark horse hope for desperate liberals in 2018 when signed on to represent Daniels in lawsuits against Trump. Since then, however, the Daniels case has become just one of several legal hells he’s facing.

Avenatti is currently on house arrest at a friend’s “small one-bedroom” apartment in Venice Beach as prosecutors in New York fight to make him begin serving his two-and-half-year prison sentence for attempting to extort Nike for $25 million.

On November 19th, Judge James Selna in Orange County granted Aventatti’s request to extend his temporary release. But he only extended it to February 1 instead of March 1 as Avenatti requested.

Avenatti’s awaiting a new trial in Orange County federal court on charges that he stole millions from five clients after a judge in that case declared a mistrial in August, finding that prosecutors had withheld exculpatory evidence.

Michael Avenatti has vigorously denied all the charges in all the cases.