EDGE Interview: Stormy Daniels Finds Comfort in a Tumultuous Time Hosting 'For the Love of DILFs' Season 3

The thought that a newly-elected president and his supporters have a personal vendetta against you is terrifying. You would think that in America your safety was protected, but Stormy Daniels doesn't think that way. Speaking with Daniels about the new season of her show "For the Love of DILFS" a few days after the election, she revealed she was scared. The actress boldly sued ex- and future President Donald Trump in 2018 regarding their affair. Ultimately the jury sided with Daniels, and Trump was charged with 34 felony counts. Now, with his re-election, she fears for her safety.

She had to conduct her interview with EDGE in an RV at an undisclosed location. Still shaken about the election results, she says, "The show must go on." That show is the aforementioned LGBTQ+ reality dating series "For the Love of DILFs," which she hosts, coming to OUTtv for a third season starting November 26.

Even with her legal battles and worries, Daniels is determined to keep her commitment to the community.

"It's such an important message," Daniels says. "It's the first of this type of programming for the queer community, and the topics that are covered are so time sensitive and so important especially now – wrapped up in this sexy, hot package."

The show has become a sleeper hit for OUTtv. The premise is to take several older gay men (daddies) and several younger ones (himbos) and confine them to a mansion to see if anyone can make a love connection. It's been done in the straight world before, but what makes this show special is its queer May/December angle.

"It's fun, it's cheeky, it's funny a lot of the time. But at the same time, it's all these genuine heartfelt – sometimes heartbreaking – stories," Daniels says. "There's never been anything like that on TV. It's really groundbreaking. For me, I'm just honored to be a part of that and be able to use my name which, let's be honest, my name became so popular and so well known for dark reasons – or orange reasons, should we say."

The older guys are the focus of this season. In the past, it has been the himbos that got most of the camera time. Daniels likes this change, and even jokes that it's "the season of the Daddy."

"Surprisingly, some of the early drama was coming from the Daddy side, which was unexpected," she says, adding, "It's the same messages, the same themes, but coming from a new perspective. It's fresh. We shot West Coast this time, which makes some of the dates and challenges different. We were able to do things we weren't able to do when we shot in Florida."

In the end, it boils down to diversity. That seems to be a common theme in today's adult spaces. People can do whatever they want independently through apps like JustFor.Fans. They can forego what the big studios want, and concentrate on their core audience. It is a challenge, but, in some cases, a lucrative one. "For the Love of DILFs" is a mainstream way to show some of these differences, especially when it comes to self-expression and personal tastes.

"I think it's gotten better," Daniels says about diversification in the industry. "One of the things I'm most proud of about our show. We have every different body type, different ages. The range in season three is the greatest we've ever had. Timmy is our youngest. If I had seen him with a drink in his hand, I probably would have carded him. And then we have somebody up into their sixties."

Daniels is impressed by the conversations these men are having on the show this season. With so much diversity, she says, it opens up many avenues of discussion beyond the banal back and forth usually put forth on other shows. Some of these men are parents, which opens up even more dialog. "I'm proud of being on a show that has those conversations," Daniels avers.

Honest talk aside, there is another thing that audiences will be interested in. In the teaser for the show, someone seemingly gets hurt. Although Daniels won't go into detail about what happened, she says the moment was intense.

"It was graphic," she says. "It was scary. It's the first time in the first three seasons that production came to a standstill. We had to call an ambulance. I will say I haven't seen the footage, but I guarantee you the shot that is going to be used is the one my husband Barrett shot."

She jokingly says that it was the first time she realized she might be married to a sociopath, because all the other camera people stopped filming after it happened but her husband kept rolling and got the shot.

"It was terrifying. But I look forward to seeing how that translates in the first two episodes," she says.

Listening to Daniels talk about the "For the Love of DILFs" takes some of the edge off of what's going on in the world. To give you an idea of what she has to endure, early in our conversation, I asked about her horses. She revealed something I didn't know, "The one that got shot, he's recovering," she said. "I was doxxed when I testified back in May, and they put my address online, and of course that sends all the crazies looking for me."

She admitted that she was still processing the election results, but promoting "DILFs" was a way of focusing on something else. "I'm glad the first conversations I'm having talking to the press is about 'For the Love of DILFs,' because no one can hate that."

As for the future, Daniels is keeping busy. It would be unlike her not to do so. A businesswoman at heart, she has many irons in the fire. From a new mainstream TV show called "Woke Up Late," and other projects streaming on her own Roku channel, she is in her element. As busy as she is, she wants to re-emphasize the importance of "For the Love of DILFs."

"I think it's important to show the world that people care, even if you're not part of the queer community, even if you're not watching the show for personal interest, just to let people know that it is important to have this kind of content out there," she says, adding that hopefully there will be a fourth season of DILFs. "A lot of good comes from having a program like this out there."