Former Playboy model Karen McDougal acknowledged a 10-month affair with Donald Trump before he was president, and said in an interview Thursday that he once offered her money after sex.

Speaking on CNN to Anderson Cooper, McDougal said she and Trump were together “many dozens of times” between 2006 and 2007. Trump was married at the time and McDougal said the affair was consensual and loving.

But after their first encounter, she said he tried to give her cash.

“ “It did hurt me. I was crying in the backseat of the car . . . I got home and I was crying a lot. I felt terrible about myself.” ” — Karen McDougal

“After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually didn’t know how to take that,” she said. “I don’t even know how to describe the look on my face . . .It must have been so sad.”

McDougal said she was hurt “that he saw me in that light and he obviously assumed that was the kind of girl I was, maybe because I was a playmate.”

McDougal described herself as a Republican: “I voted for Donald,” she said.

Earlier this week, she filed a lawsuit against American Media Inc., the owner of the National Enquirer, to nullify a contract she signed in 2016 that prevented her from telling her story about the alleged affair with Trump in exchange for a fitness column in the tabloid. McDougal claims she never got the column and the contract was intended to buy her silence. The owner of American Media is a friend of Trump’s.

Talking to Time Warner’s US:TWX CNN, she denied she was speaking out now for the publicity. “I’m not out to make money on this,” she said. “I’m out to get my rights back, to prove a contract was illegal, that I was taken advantage of and go back to my life. Period.”

She said that during their affair, Trump compared her to his daughter, Ivanka. “He said I was beautiful like her,” McDougal said.

She also said that she felt guilty about the affair, and that was the reason she eventually ended it. McDougal apologized to Trump’s wife, Melania, on Thursday. “What can you say except I’m sorry?” she said. “I’m sorry. I wouldn’t want it done to me.”

On Sunday, CBS’s US:CBS “60 Minutes” is scheduled to air an interview with adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, who also alleges an affair with Trump.