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Jacqueline Laurita‘s daughter Ashley Holmes was found guilty of assaulting costar Danielle Staub, following a hair-pulling incident that will play out on the July 12 episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Now, Staub says she can relate to her costar’s daughter, who’s also been in verbal fights with her mom on the show.
“I was there at one point in my life,” Staub told PEOPLE at Target’s Party for Good benefiting the Food Bank For New York City. “I can see in her a lot of what I was headed towards.”
On the show’s first season, scandalous details of Staub’s past were revealed, including her arrest in 1986, when she was charged as an accessory in a kidnap and ransom plot.
Though Laurita tried to stand up for Staub on the explosive season 1 finale, the women were no longer friends when season 2 began. Since then Staub, 46, and Holmes, 19, began a Facebook feud on a recent episode and a trailer teases there’s more drama to come, including the incident that led to the teen’s assault charge.Some say yes, this young woman is rebellious and immature, and provoked a mess that could’ve otherwise been avoided. But others say Staub, who is a mother of two herself, is the one to blame. She presumably should be more mature than Ashley, and have some desire to set an example for her girls–who are still at very moldable ages–instead of creating feuds and intense arguments with other women, including one who is significantly younger than she is young A caller from Paterson asks Teresa what’s the deal with her house. Teresa says her house is not under foreclosure and wants to leave it at that, 
but Andy follows up: “You’re in quite a bit of debt.” After a pause, Teresa says, “Well, not me. My husband and his ex-partner with real estate … We’re doing the best we can
