Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.
I met Donald Trump in '85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn't appropriate timing. So we'd spend a lot of time on the telephone. By '88, I knew I truly loved this guy.
I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.
I finally said, I can't live being carried by this wake.
I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.
I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.
He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.
The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.
He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.
Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.
If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.