Danielle Staub blames the demise of her marriage to Marty Caffrey on his drinking.
The “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star told Page Six in a recent interview that her estranged husband “would just drink and then leave [her]” in various scenarios ahead of their wedding, but she “really thought [she] could fix him” and went through with their beachside Bimini wedding in May with good intentions.
Staub, 56, told us that she and Caffrey, 66, would be at her castmates’ homes ahead of their nuptials — without cameras rolling — and his behavior would take a drastic turn after a few drinks.
“I’d be in the bathroom, I’d come out and my husband’s gone,” she explained. “And he has my phone with him in his pocket, and I’ve got no way to get home so I have to ask a friend to take me home.”
Caffrey denied Staub’s claims, telling us Tuesday: “I never took her phone. I would say, ‘Let’s try one dinner where you leave the phone in the car so you can look at me in eye and hear what I want to talk about. Let’s just talk like normal people.’ [She] couldn’t do it. [She] had to be on social media the whole time.”
Staub also alleged he behaved that way in restaurants, saying that his drinking “had been bad for a while but I figured — I really thought [that] publicly putting everyone’s mind to rest that I’m taken [would] take care of all of his insecurities. I thought that was the only reason he was drinking. I wasn’t rewriting the story like I am now. I really believed I could fix him but instead [his drinking] just broke it further.”
“In the beginning of relationships, the honeymoon phase which I guess is considered my only honeymoon, you’re able to have cocktails with somebody and even if they have a heavy hand, you don’t know that stuff yet,” she added. “You’re not seeing their real side yet. My whole real perception is out there … and yet I don’t feel like I was given that in return. I didn’t get to know the real him until most recently because if I had known this was really what he was capable of I would have never gone through with the wedding. Never.”
Caffrey denied that he has a drinking problem, telling us: “She is nothing more than a manufactured celebrity. These are nothing more than manufactured lies.”
The mom-of-two told us that her divorce has been “humiliating” to her and her family, and that she “should have made a choice to move on from him a while ago.”
“Part of it was finances. Part of it was loneliness. Part of it was how do I do this alone?” she told us of how she reasoned with herself to stay.
Still, she was served with divorce papers in September after Caffrey skipped her masquerade birthday party and went on a social media tirade about their marital problems in July. The couple filed and dropped restraining orders against each other in August, but Staub is still ready to fight if need be.
“I’ve never thrown the first blow. But I will have the final. He wanted to go public with our privacy. Well, I haven’t even begun,” she said.
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