Danielle Staub Gives Kelly Bensimon "Advice" On Bullying

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They're both former models, both cast members on Bravo's "Real Housewives" series and both have had brushes with the law.

"Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Danielle Staub has a lot more in common with "New York's" Kelly Bensimon – namely, the two women see themselves as victims on the receiving end of their catty cast mates.

During last week's dramatic "New York" episode, Bensimon was accused of having a nervous breakdown (which she now calls a "nervous breakthrough") after claiming her co-stars bullied her during a vacation to the Virgin Islands.

"I don't even need to know why people are ganging up on her," Staub, 47, told People.com at a book signing for her memoir, "The Naked Truth." "I can just say how it feels because no one has the right to put you down."

Staub can easily relate to Bensimon's position as the most disliked person on her reality show's cast.

Throughout all of the last season of "New Jersey," Staub was ostracized when her sordid past came back to haunt her after cast mates discovered she had been arrested for a number of felonies, including extortion, cocaine possession, and narcotics conspiracy. This season, her rivalry with her female cohorts has only intensified.

Though it has taken time for Staub to let her costars' comments "roll off her shoulder," she suggests that Bensimon needs to "block them out."

"Just go to a place inside of yourself and connect with your inner child in a fantasy," Staub said. "Keep living your life and don't apologize, sweetheart. I know how people can pour negative [energy] into you. So block it, Kelly, because you're beautiful and strong."

Pot...meet kettle.