Danielle Staub; Vixen, Glitter and Star..

SCV: You love the attention don’t you?

DS: Yes, I do!  I’m surrounded by love.  I walked eleven miles in heels at the Gay Pride Parade.  Every time I wanted to stop I listened to the crowd, people saying they loved me, and went on.

SCV: Are there any misconceptions about your character that you want to address?

DS: I think the idea I’m harsh. The truth is, I’m very sensitive on the inside, like a little girl.  People think that I don’t pay attention to what they’re saying because I can’t. I didn’t hold back, obviously, and I never have regrets about what happened.  I have extreme cases of ADD and OCD.  I’ll be cleaning my kitchen counters, look out the window, see a butterfly, notice a bottle of Windex in my hand and wonder what I had been doing before the butterfly.”

Turning to S&V’s lovely and evidently imperiled publicist Sonia, Danielle calmly remarked,

DS: There’s a crack in your glass, is that a crack?  I noticed it because I was inspecting how clean it was.

SCV: Case in point. Doesn’t this create an interesting internal conflict, a battle between ADD and OCD?  You are telling me that you are at once incapable of focus but eternally tormented with the details.

DS: I come from a history of extreme abuse.  I have been a victim of domestic violence as well as childhood incest, and I think that the OCD is a division of this personality, from the feeling of never being clean.  ADD saved me from focusing on what was happening to me when I was being raped.

SCV: Do you feel that the show fairly portrayed this internal struggle?

DS: No, I don’t think the show fairly portrayed who I am, though the experience was a lesson I had to learn.  If I wasn’t in some small way the way I was (on the show), then they wouldn’t have portrayed me like that. I want vindication for Danielle, for my kids. I’m a super great mom, let’s see more of that.  If everything works out for Season 2, I want to show everyone who I am, the softer side of me. And I will not be set up with anyone, (coughing) Steve.

SCV: I think many people have always wondered why Steve was considered such a palatable character for so long, and to be honest why you even dated him for so long?

DS: Teresa and her husband were friends with Steve for a long time.  I thought that it would be fun, to go out on dates with friends and hang out.  Hopefully, they figured out he’s not a great guy. I highly doubt that they still see him.

SCV: Did his presence make any lasting impression on your daughters?

DS: It’s been cleaned up.  I learned that I shouldn’t have been dating at all, especially on a television show.  Now, I’m not looking to hang out with people anymore.  I want to be with my kids.

SCV: Your first husband wrote a tell-all book called “Cop Without a Badge” in which you appear.  You have been accused of being a high-end prostitute, an associate of Columbian drug cartels, a kidnapper and an extortionist.

DS: I was never a prostitute.  I danced go-go and burlesque, never taking my clothes off. Kevin (the cop in question) is a threat to society and to all mankind.  He needs to let me go.  He’s a pathological liar, a bipolar manic depressive and a cocaine and alcohol abuser. He served time in Rikers Island; he’s a hardened felon and people want to listen to him?  It’s helping a man terrorize me all over again.  Any profit he makes from that book after the airing of the episode will go to me.  Thank God I have a great lawyer. All proceeds will go directly to the Nicole Brown foundation for domestic violence.  It’s an issue that needs to be addressed.

SCV: Did he beat you?

DS: He beat me relentlessly.  He posed as an FBI agent when I met him, after I had already gone through my case. He moved me here (to New Jersey), married me and made me into a dancer to support him. He told me that he was a rat and unfortunately I had to wait for something horrific to file abandonment charges.

SCV: What happened?