Under questioning from Trump's lawyer in a Manhattan courtroom - Carroll acknowledged receiving more attention from media and celebrities since publicizing her rape claim in June 2019...
...but said she's also been widely disparaged.
"I am more well known, and I am hated by a lot more people," she said.
Carroll is seeking at least $10 million from Trump for two statements he made as president, in which he denied assaulting her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room and said she made up the claim to promote her memoir.
Trump's lawyer Alina Habba argued the writer has leveraged her claim into newfound fame as an advocate for women.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has already ruled that Trump sexually abused Carroll by forcing his fingers into her vagina and that he defamed her in June 2019.
The nine-person jury need decide only how much Trump should pay Carroll in damages.
Following Carroll's testimony, a damages expert told jurors on her behalf it would cost $7.3 million to $12.1 million to repair damage that Trump's denials did to Carroll's reputation.
Trump had been in the courtroom on Tuesday and Wednesday but was not there on Thursday, so he could attend his mother-in-law's funeral in Florida.
The judge threatened to kick him out of court on Wednesday after he was overheard criticizing Carroll's testimony.
He could testify next week.
