Danielle Staub Explains Exit From 'Real Housewives' on 'Early Show' (VIDEO)
According to Danielle Staub of 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey,' she wasn't fired from the show and she didn't quit. Instead, she "walked away," deeming it an appropriate time to leave the reality show after two chaotic seasons, she said on 'The Early Show' (weekdays, 7AM ET on CBS)."I walked away," Staub said. "It was a good time for me to leave. What was left? Kill me? There was no peace in two years and I just felt like I had done all I could do."
Staub also touched on her lingering, awkward hug of fellow housewife Jacqueline Laurita at the end of the show's two-part reunion. "I didn't think it was uncomfortable," she said. "I really hadn't had an opportunity to even speak to her. We were at odds ... And that was the first moment in two years, actually, that we really had a dialogue going ... I was feeling a lot of closure between she and I."
And, Staub said she doesn't feel she was accurately portrayed on the show. "I think editing is a beautiful, wonderful thing and it did make wonderful TV," adding that certain other housewives were shown "favoritism," but that she's fine being portrayed as the "villain."
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