‘RHONJ’ Drama: Marty Caffrey Defends Ex Danielle Staub After Her Wild Fight With Margaret Josephs!
Jan. 16 2020, Published 9:57 p.m. ET
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Danielle Staub’s ex-husband is coming to her defense, slamming her costars after she said she was quitting the show.
“I laugh at all these stories about Margaret Josephs suing Danielle,” Marty Caffrey, whose divorce from Danielle was finalized in 2019 after less than a year of marriage, told RadarOnline.com exclusively.
“I know she has threatened that before. It's another example of Margaret using Danielle to get attention when she can't get any by herself. Margaret should be worried about her career with the franchise if she ever stops talking about Danielle Staub,” he warned.
Viewers saw Margaret dump water on Danielle’s head and Danielle pull her hair in return during a vicious brawl on RHONJ and since then Marty has been sticking up for his ex-wife.
“She should be very careful,” Marty said about Margaret, Danielle’s RHONJ nemesis.
“The after show is a good example of how the ‘full time’ cast members constantly need to attack Danielle, a ‘friend,’ without her there to stand up for herself,” Marty said about the drama that continued after the fight aired.
“Danielle has no platform. They get to spew whatever bulls**t they want and go unchecked. What ‘friend’ across all the franchises is the main focus of the season?” he questioned.
Marty ripped into his ex-wife’s costars. “A bunch of cowards. They need Danielle’s story because they don’t have one themselves. Can anybody identify Margaret’s story line?
“Melissa, Jennifer or Jackie have nothing either. Well, Melissa has Joe. Joe’s the Housewife, not Melissa. Delores has her two men story line. Teresa has her husband and Danielle. Without Danielle going forward Margaret is doomed and so is Teresa. They really all do owe their paychecks to Danielle.“
Scroll through the gallery for more exclusive details from Marty about his ex-wife Danielle amid her threat to quit RHONJ.
I’m Done
“Nope, never returning as a housewife again,” Danielle sniped during an interview on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Jan. 9 . “With the Jersey girls.”
Her Words
"I would love to know why Margaret feels that she needs to pour things on me, throw things at me, yell at me, talk about my past as if she was a part of it, get involved with my marriage, get involved with my relationships. She's affected my life in a very bad way and all I did was help her fit into the group in the beginning," Danielle said on the after show about the Margaret fight.
No Love Lost
"All of them, collectively, really are just the most disgusting vile people—ever. I would never be around a group like that again,” Danielle said after the incident. “And you know what? They should be very careful. I do hold secrets of theirs of my own, for a long time I've held those secrets. You never know when it's going to blow. You just never know. Hell, it could happen today. I don't know.”
Old Drama
“Remember I was shoved into the shallow end of a pool by 4 hands, including Joe’s, with an already severely sprained ankle,” Marty told Radar, referring to his epic fight with Margaret’s husband on RHONJ. “Joe Benigno could have ended up with a Rocky Marciano nose but he ran out to their limo trailing Margaret’s a** of course. Joe needs Margaret, or Joe Gorga, standing next to him to be a man.”
Not The Same
Marty said his situation was different from Danielle’s recent fight with Margaret. “I didn't provoke either of them like she did to Danielle at the boutique. If the full tape is shown at Jennifer and Bill's party, it would show Joe and Margaret attacking my wife in a vile and disgusting way to my face. Nope, sorry, that doesn't work with me. What husband would not respond to that? I defended her in the face of their horrible attacks. Margaret needs to stand down fast AND get her own storyline.”
Incredulous
“I just saw the after show with Margaret saying she never put her hands on anybody with Melissa and Jackie nodding like sheep,” Marty told Radar. “Then I saw Joe and Frank talking about it. Joe said it was shocking that someone would assault someone else. What a bunch of hypocrites. Do they remember shoving me into the shallow end of swimming pool? Four hands on me. I’m lucky I didn’t break an ankle.”