Stormy Daniels Scores '60 Minutes' Its Highest Ratings In Nearly A Decade

“60 Minutes” viewers are more interested in alleged sex scandals involving President Donald Trump  than they once were in his thoughts about winning the election or so the Nielsen ratings released Monday suggest.

Former adult film actress Stormy Daniels ’ Sunday night interview about her alleged affair with Trump more than 10 years ago scored the CBS news magazine its highest ratings in nearly a decade, even beating out its late 2016 interview with Trump. 

According to Nielsen data shared by CBS, 22.6 million viewers tuned in to the interview with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. That marks the show’s highest rating since 2008, when a post-election interview with Barack and Michelle Obama  drew 25.1 million viewers.

By comparison, the post-election interview  with Trump and his family was viewed by 20 million people . But that interview, the first major sit-down that he gave after his victory, may have lost some viewers due to its nearly half-hour delay in several large markets, including New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., Variety noted at the time. 

In her highly anticipated sit-down with Anderson Cooper , Daniels shared details of the consensual affair  she said she and Trump had in 2006 and 2007. She is currently suing him over the validity of a nondisclosure agreement she signed shortly before the 2016 election that was designed to prevent her from discussing their relationship.

Daniels went over much of the same ground  that she’d previously shared with In Touch. Although she spoke to the tabloid magazine in 2011, In Touch did not publish that interview until this January.