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Posted: 2018-01-17T22:00:54Z | Updated: 2018-01-17T23:30:06Z

Former adult film actress Stephanie Clifford confirmed her reported affair with President Donald Trump in a previously unpublished 2011 interview with In Touch , the magazine revealed Wednesday.

The newly disclosed comments by Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, lend credence to last weeks Wall Street Journal report that a Trump lawyer arranged a $130,000 payment to her in October 2016 right before the presidential election to keep quiet about the relationship. Trumps legal team and Clifford have denied both the affair and the payment.

But in 2011, In Touch says, Clifford told the tabloid that she had sex with Trump in his Lake Tahoe hotel suite in the summer of 2006, the year after Trump had married his third wife, Melania Trump , and just months after she gave birth to their son, Barron Trump.

The magazine chose to publish the interview this week in light of the Journal report and Trumps rise in significance, magazine spokeswoman Kelsi Ignomirello told HuffPost.

Donald Trump is clearly a more relevant public figure now than he was in 2011, she said.

Clifford told In Touch she met Trump at the American Century celebrity golf tournament in July 2006. Wicked Pictures, the adult film company Clifford worked for, was a sponsor of the tournaments gift lounge, where Trump allegedly approached her. He asked for her phone number and invited her to dinner in his hotel room, according to the 2011 interview.