Ms. Daniels testified she started experiencing poltergeist phenomena in the home and developed severe health problems that dissipated when she moved out.

Ms. Daniels....said that she could speak to the house and the dead. “How do you speak to the dead?” Mr. Avenatti asked.

“I don’t know. It just happens sometimes,” Ms. Daniels told jurors in a New York federal court.

Thursday's testimony was just as strange:

Thursday’s session took a turn when Mr. Avenatti began questioning Ms. Daniels, saying she claimed to have a photographic memory, X-ray vision and the ability to speak to a haunted doll named Susan. Ms. Daniels denied the X-ray vision but said she and Susan talked to one another.

If you are not familiar with the case, here's what prosecutors allege:

After helping Ms. Daniels secure a book contract for her memoir, “Full Disclosure,” Mr. Avenatti stole a significant portion of her advance, including by sending an unauthorized letter that had a fake signature, prosecutors said. He then asked her literary agent to send payments to his own bank account, according to prosecutors.