A former Playboy model recalled having sex with Donald Trump dozens of times in the early years of the president’s marriage to Melania Trump, sharing elaborate details in an interview televised Thursday of what she described as a 10-month love affair.

Karen McDougal, the magazine’s 1998 Playmate of the Year, told CNN that she was racked with guilt about Trump cheating on his wife, especially when he showed her the couple’s Trump Tower penthouse apartment when Melania was not home.

“That just puts a little stab in your heart,” McDougal told anchor Anderson Cooper. “I couldn’t wait to get out of the apartment, actually.”

McDougal, 46, said Trump flirted with her when they met in 2006 at a Playboy Mansion party celebrating the taping of an “Apprentice” episode there. He asked for her phone number, then invited her to meet for dinner a week later at the Beverly Hills Hotel, she said.

His bodyguard, Keith Schiller, picked her up and drove her to the hotel, where after a nice dinner in his bungalow McDougal had sex with Trump, she told CNN. Trump, she said, offered her money at the end of the evening, but she turned him down and told him she wasn’t that type of woman.

She recalled feeling deeply hurt. “I was crying in the back seat of the car,” she said.

But they grew to love one another and wound up seeing each other at least five times a month until she broke up with him in April 2007, according to McDougal.

“If he weren’t married, I wouldn’t have any regrets,” she said.

McDougal said she was a Republican and voted for Trump.

She spoke out as Trump’s alleged marital infidelity and sexual misconduct toward women are becoming a source of growing trouble for the White House.

Stripper and porn actress Stormy Daniels, who says she had a fling with Trump in 2006 around the same time as McDougal, will appear Sunday on CBS to share her story on “60 Minutes.”

The spectacle of a president’s alleged mistresses telling all on prime-time television is reminiscent of the Bill Clinton dramas of the 1990s.

With McDougal and Daniels suing to break confidentiality agreements that they say are shams, it could take years to play out.

Trump, whose spokeswomen have denied he had sex with McDougal or Daniels, has met the latest allegations with near silence. On Thursday, first lady Melania Trump tweeted a photograph of herself with her husband, smiling on a White House patio with the snow-covered South Lawn as their backdrop.

The president retweeted the photo for his 49 million followers.

It was as close as Trump would get to responding to the growing public-relations mess of multiple sex scandals.

“Having them together in these photogenic moments is important,” said political scientist Terry Madonna of Pennsylvania’s Franklin & Marshall College.

McDougal, now an Arizona actress and fitness model, filed suit Tuesday in Los Angeles to break the confidentiality agreement that has barred her from speaking publicly about her alleged affair with Trump.

American Media Inc., the parent company of The National Enquirer, paid McDougal $150,000 in August 2016 for exclusive rights to the story of what she describes as a 10-month romance with Trump that started in 2006.

American Media, led by Trump’s close friend David Pecker, declined to publish the story. Pecker told The New Yorker last year that when AMI bought the rights to McDougal’s story under a contract that also promised her monthly columns and her photo on magazine covers, “she can’t be bashing Trump.”

“The guy’s a personal friend of mine,” Pecker explained.

McDougal alleges that her attorney at the time, Keith Davidson of Beverly Hills, was secretly colluding with Trump representatives to protect the newly named Republican presidential nominee from public disclosure of his extramarital affair.

AMI, she says, threatened her with financial ruin if she told the truth about Trump.

In a statement on Wednesday, AMI denied threatening her and said it had not yet decided “if, when, or how her story may be published.”

“The story is more valuable today than it was two years ago,” the statement said.

The only thing McDougal can’t do, AMI said, is sell her story rights to another publisher.

McDougal’s attorney, Peter K. Stris, said she “was explicitly told that they would not produce a story on her relationship with Trump.”

“Despite their claims, it has always been AMI’s intention to manipulate and silence Karen, and we look forward to freeing her from this bogus contract so she can move on with her life in peace,” he said.

Also suing Trump is former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos. Trump called her a liar after she accused him in October 2016 of trying to force himself upon her in 2007, sparking her defamation complaint. On Tuesday, a judge rejected Trump’s request to dismiss it.