Hope Hicks, a top aide to former President Donald Trump during his political rise, is testifying in her former boss’ hush money trial about key players in 2016 payoffs to women and the fallout from the “Access Hollywood” tape before the election.

Ms. Hicks admitted she was “really nervous” as she took the witness stand Friday. She testified about an urgent request from a Washington Post reporter in October 2016 seeking comment about the “Access Hollywood” audio, in which Mr. Trump speaks crudely about his stardom and touching women.

Hope Hicks, a Trump-era White House adviser and communications director, is next to testify in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial.

Hick's name has been brought up by several witnesses who have testified so far. She is expected to be questioned by prosecutors about her knowledge of the deal brokered between Trump and the leadership at the National Enquirer tabloid to "catch and kill" stories that could harm his presidential run.

Former Trump aide Hope Hicks will meet with the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday to give a deposition, according to multiple reports.

Hicks previously served as the White House director of strategic communications and as the White House communications director before shifting to be counselor to the president during the Trump administration. News of Hicks's deposition comes after the committee held what was expected to be its last public hearing earlier this month.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted and longest-serving aides, is returning to the White House as the president works to surround himself with loyalists as his reelection campaign moves into high gear.

Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is set to return to the White House in a different role.

Hicks will join President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s team, according to a report Thursday from The New York Times. The report stated that Hicks will be a “counselor to the president,” but that she will not be in the communications office.

President Donald Trump is surrounding himself with loyalists after a week of banishing staffers across the government in a post-impeachment revenge plot.

Hope Hicks, the former top West Wing aide and longtime confidante to the president, is returning to the White House roughly two years after she left. A White House official says Hicks will be working closely with Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and political director Brian Jack, and will not be a part of the communications department.