Stormy Daniels, the adult film actor, broke her silence after former US president Donald Trump’s conviction to say he should be jailed, in an interview published in British tabloid The Mirror at the weekend.

“I think he should be sentenced to jail and some community service working for the less fortunate, or being the volunteer punching bag at a women’s shelter,” Daniels said in the interview, published late on Saturday.

A jury of 12 New Yorkers on Thursday found Trump guilty on 34 counts of business fraud for trying to cover up hush money payments to Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.

Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 to keep silent and prevent scandal from breaking ahead of the election, in which Trump narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton.

After years of exchanging insults with Trump on social media, Daniels now says she finally has been “vindicated”, although she was “shocked” at how quickly the jury made a decision –- one that made Trump the first ever former US president to be convicted of a crime.

Stormy Daniels also accused the White House hopeful of being “completely and utterly out of touch with reality” and compared him to a child at one point in the interview.

The former adult film actor and director helped bring Trump down in court with her gripping testimony, which included graphic descriptions of what she says was a casual sexual encounter in 2006.

“Being in court was so intimidating with the jurors looking at you,” she said in the Mirror interview, adding that she was glad it was proved that she had been “telling the truth the entire time”.

“It’s not over for me. It’s never going to be over for me. Trump may be guilty, but I still have to live with the legacy.”

The 45-year-old had remained uncharacteristically quiet in the days following the Thursday conviction.

Daniels’s husband Barrett Blade had previously told CNN that she was “still processing” the trial. He suggested that she could be threatened by Trump’s supporters.

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