Maine Gov. Janet Mills, in a last-minute reversal, attended an annual governors meeting Friday morning at the White House, just hours after criticizing the event as an “unproductive vanity project for the President.”

The governor had announced late Thursday that she decided to boycott the event after weeks of back and forth over whether she and other Democrats would attend. The National Governors Association previously backed out of the meeting, which Mills and several other Democratic governors said they were boycotting after President Donald Trump initially declined to invite two Democrats.

But Mills said in a statement late Friday morning that she had a “gut feeling” she should attend.

“At the end of the day, I will sit through whatever painful meeting or narcissistic venture by the President that I have to if it means there’s even a sliver of a chance I can do something to defend Maine,” she said in the statement.

It’s unclear what the president and governors discussed at the meeting; a C-SPAN livestream of the event shows Trump telling the assembled reporters to leave shortly after arriving.

Mills’ about-face came less than a day after an earlier announcement that she wouldn’t be attending the event.

“I want to address the very serious issues facing Maine people — issues that, I believe, have been made worse by the Trump Administration — but it’s become increasingly clear that the President is not serious about hosting a bipartisan meeting of the nation’s governors or hearing these concerns, which is why the NGA, in a significant move, has withdrawn its support for the traditional meeting,” Mills said in a written statement Thursday night.

The governors association announced earlier this month that it would not facilitate the annual bipartisan meeting in Washington, D.C., after the White House initially planned to only invite Republican governors.

Trump reversed that decision last week, blaming the Republican who leads the governors association and declaring that the event was open to Democratic governors. At that point, Mills announced that she planned to attend the bipartisan meeting, saying she was prepared “to stand up for our state and Maine people.”

Then, she and other Democratic governors announced that they were backing out of the meeting after Trump refused to invite Democratic Govs. Wes Moore of Maryland and Jared Polis of Colorado, despite his prior statement that all governors were welcome.

But on Friday morning, Moore and Polis said they would attend the meeting after all, The Hill reported. Moore, the vice chair of the governors association, announced in a statement Friday morning that he would show up but “will not participate in political stunts.”

Mills, in her Friday statement, said she ultimately chose to attend the meeting with Moore and other Democratic governors, despite Trump’s “erratic games.”

“For the past week, President Trump has sowed chaos in an attempt to avoid talking about real issues with the nation’s governors and undermine the ability of Democratic governors to hold him to account, including barring Governors Moore and Polis from a White House meeting,” she said.

“Democratic governors are the last line of defense against the president’s abuses of power, and, in leading our states, we have continued to provide a united front against his attacks.”

The Republican Governors Association praised the White House meeting as a success in a statement early Friday afternoon. Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, who chairs the association, said governors agreed to continue working with one another and the president “to keep delivering for the American people.”

Mills and Trump clashed at the same event last year in a viral dispute over transgender athletes. That interaction — particularly her remark “See you in court” — thrust her into the national spotlight as a symbol of Democratic resistance against the administration.

Mills, who is running in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, has made her opposition to Trump a key component of her campaign.

This story contains material from the Associated Press.