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Dina Manzo of the New Jersey Housewives tells this story, making it no longer rumor, as reported in the past.
But she continues to counter the rumor that she and Tommy Manzo are no longer together
The Dina and Tommy Rumor Won’t Go Away
One thing we do know? Danielle Staub is a pathological, deeply disturbed liar.
From the New York Daily News:
Dina Manzo has made it no secret that her surprising departure during this season’s "Real Housewives of New Jersey" was the result of her never-ending feud with cast mate Danielle Staub.
However according to the former reality star, catty fights and gossip were not the only reasons for her sudden absence.
Manzo, 40, reveals to Life & Style that the real reason she walked away from the hit reality show was because Staub tried to have her daughter taken away.
During the show’s first season in 2008, Manzo’s daughter, Lexi, then 12, required parental permission to join the cast. Both Manzo and her ex-husband gave their permission.
"My ex husband was well aware of Lexi’s involvement in the show," Manzo told the mag. "She would often call him with details after a day of shooting."
However once the show aired and her ex saw the content, he allegedly decided he wanted Lexi off the air. It was this moment, according to Manzo, when Staub began to spread malicious lies in an attempt to turn Lexi’s dad against the reality star.
"She told my ex’s family that I’d actually forged his signature on the contracts, which I did not," Manzo said. "She knew she could work on his emotions, so she supplied him with every phone number of everybody he’d need to follow through with a lawsuit – contacts at Bravo, our production crew and her attorneys."
Fortunately for Manzo, her ex-husband didn’t believe Staub’s tales and never went forward with filing a lawsuit.
"She thought more would come of it, like I could lose custody," Manzo explained. "She just wanted to hurt me."
Manzo said that Staub, 47, continued to spread lies about her and by the time they were filming the June 21 episode, she felt as if she had no choice but to quit the show.
"Now she’s telling people my ex-husband is suing me and that Bravo fired me because of that," she claimed, adding that Staub has been spreading new lies that Manzo’s current husband, Tommy, left her and lives with a younger girlfriend.
"Tommy lives right here with me and is happy as a clam," she said. "Things are better than ever."
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Tommy Manzo is ”funny” looking.
Dina thinks that she’s GOD on earth.
Caroline she’s a trouble maker .She’s fighting with Giudice …only because Teresa is smarter then her….she was able to publish the cooking books…and not her.
Dina blames everything on Danielle Staub.
Thats not the real reason….
Dina is not happy with her marriage….maybe her hubby is gay.
We must ask Caroline Manzo…she knows for sure.
Big mouth and malicious that she is….especially with Teresa Giudice.
Dina left for another issue…it ain’t Danielle. She’s all ZIN and ish, but can’t stop talking about Danielle. Trick needs to sit down, once again why would her ex-husband threatened the custody of Lexi if she didn’t sign his name on the papers, she’s been married for five years now. According to Dina, Danielle must have great power to play with her ex-husband emotion like that, wonder what’s she’s doing with the new husband(tommy).
The skeletons are falling. If she left to avoid Danielle why is she still talking about her? I think she was on the verge of being in a custody battle and that is why Caroline broke so hard at the reunion. This is the reason IMO only she is not there any more. Tommy was a cheater before and a leopard does not change its spots.lol. Something is also up there and Dina opted for the zen thing to do and that was to get the heck out and dodge.lol. My imagination.lmao
Why do I feel like this is only the beginning of the great crumbling of the Manzo’s?
Why are there people all over the msg boards talking about Tommy being gay? That Dina and Tommy had an arranged marriage by Al and Caroline to cover up Tommy’s gayness and to help Dina’s lack of money and thats the reason for Caroline’s breakdown on the reunion show….
……sheesh…where will all those skeletons dance…..
I don’t believe dina either. How could Danielle tell her ex that she forged his signature. Duh. I think he would know if he signed the papers or not and if Danielle tried to convince his family why wouldn’t he just say its not true I signed the papers. All these women are nothing but liars.
I agree with Jen D. Shut up now Dina. You no on show no mo.lol. shhhhhh. Danielle gives exactly what we want. The LOLs
the photo of the prostitution whore scared the hell out of me. cant you replace it with a photo of jack as the joker?
Sorry to say i don’t believe either of them. And Dina has been on twitter attacking anyone who disagree with her, and always saying “prostitution whore” and other crap. Now she realized that quitting the show was a mistake,she just wants attention. She got these gossips off the internet, i think she really forged his name on the papers and he didn’t know that until the show aired. So much for spirituality and peace. If she didn’t do any wrong, why would Lexi father threatened Lexi’s custody…too much.