A Chicago woman is suing hotel operator Hilton Worldwide for $100 million, claiming an employee took nude footage of her without her consent and used it in an extortion attempt.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said an employee at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Albany, New York, used a hidden camera to record her in the shower during the summer of 2015 and tried to blackmail her with the footage earlier this year.

"It was like I had been hit by a truck. It just knocked the wind out of me," the woman told "Good Morning America" in an exclusive interview. "I had no idea who took the video. I had no idea who this guy was, and all I could think is my life is over."

She said the footage was taken in July 2015 but she didn't find out until September, when someone uploaded the video to a pornographic website and emailed her the link.

"I click on it and I see my face and profile in a bathroom and I start screaming," the woman told "GMA." "I just immediately started screaming. It was devastating on kind of a cellular level because I didn't know. ... I had no clue, I had no context for this.

"My initial reaction was, 'Your life is absolutely ruined, people are going to see this, they are going to see you naked and they are going to assume things."

She received another email from the same address later that night, promising to expose the video -- as well as her full name, school and place of employment -- unless she sent nude footage of herself, according to the lawsuit.

"I'm a perv. I don't hurt anyone. I like to watch," the suspect wrote to her in a subsequent email, according to the lawsuit. "No need to worry about me. I just like to watch and then I move on to the next. Promise me my own show. That's the hottest. No need to show your face. Then I disappear and remove the videos forever before they get copied on every website."

Another email said: "Are you here still? I know it's you. I don't want to embarrass you. Please reply before it's too late to stop it."

Things got even worse when the alleged extortionist began distributing the video to the woman's colleagues and threatened to send it wider when she refused to pay him $2,000 up front and $1,000 per month for the next year, according to the lawsuit.

"It was just absolutely traumatizing because these are people I went to law school with," she said. "They're friends, they're coworkers. And they were sent a link to what looks like an email I sent."

The video of her was posted on at least a dozen pornography sites by the end of the ordeal, she told "GMA," adding that she's been forced to continually look online for additional postings of the recording so she can petition for their removal. (Yahoo)