'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' Danielle in 'Cop Without A Badge'

After the teaser on last week's "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," we were all waiting to find out about Danielle and her mug shot in the book "Cop Without a Badge."

But first, we have to hear a recap of the gossip from last week as Teresa and Jacqueline sit down with Danielle to discuss all the nonsense. Which, as is the case with drama queens the world over, meant that Danielle would barely let anyone else finish a sentence, went on and on about how victimized she is and did her damnedest to attempt to squeeze out a few tears. Among the rumors was the husband chasing and offering a personal trainer sex in exchange for training - a charge Danielle dismisses by informing us that she owes more than $25,000 to Neiman Marcus, so why would she chase someone with a salary as low as a personal trainer. She does know that fitness training is not like marriage, right?

Danielle is convinced that Dina is the one who is doing all the talking, but Dina is more concerned with her daughter going to Cyprus with her father for two weeks. Because Dina seems to think Cyprus is a third world country where they don't have toilet paper, diseases run rampant, older men are looking to impress young American girls (Lexi isn't even a teenager yet) and terrorists are lurking around every corner.

Teresa's husband Joe decides he wants them to take salsa lessons and Jacqueline and her husband, Caroline's kids, and Danielle all go too. Caroline watches uncomfortably as Danielle cougar eyes her son and grabs his hips in an effort to teach him how to move. But things get even more uncomfortable when Joe keeps calling things "gay" and Danielle tells him to knock it off (which, I agree with, frankly). Joe tells her to 'be quiet; and Danielle shoots back that he can't talk to her like that because she is not his wife. They all leave awkwardly as Teresa tries to figure out if she was insulted or not. She decides she is, hangs up on Danielle when she tries to talk about what happened at the dance lesson, and gets to the business of moving into her ridiculously over the top house and focusing on Gia's career.

Finally getting to the book issue, Caroline, Dina and Teresa get their hands on it and read it. As they report, Danielle was involved with kidnapping, the Colombian drug cartel and prostitution. Jacqueline meets with Danielle and asks if the man she was dating was involved in those things and Danielle flatly responds "I'm not going to answer that" and then explains in a confessional that if she was involved in it, Jacqueline should have figured it out by now. Which is a specious argument at best.

Danielle later tells her gay best friend that about 24 years ago, she had returned from a photoshoot in Cozumel and gone to visit her boyfriend in his 30 room mansion. While she was there when the FBI raided the place and she was arrested as well. She says she was young, hanging out with questionable people and was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Without having read the book myself, it's hard to say which story is true as no one on the show talks about wether she was actually charged with any crime. That aside, I still think she's a train wreck based on how she lectures her daughters about how they are her only friends and they need to stick together.

Caroline is a little bewildered about why Jacqueline is even considering ranking her friendship with Danielle as being as important as her relationship with her family, and I have to agree (yet again) with Caroline. Even if Danielle's checkered past was all found out to be fiction, she is still a drama queen who is divisive, self centered and a pain in the rear.

Would you stay friends with Danielle at the risk of your family? Is Dina the puppet master Danielle claims she is? Is Danielle unable to really cry because she is a sociopath or because of the amount of plastic surgery she's had on her eyes?

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