It’s official, Danielle Staub will not be returning to the Real Housewives of New Jersey. According to Bravo’s Andy Cohen “The reunion was Danielle’s last appearance on The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” he said in a statement posted on BravoTv.comTuesday.

According to Staub, there are no hard feelings. She ended the two-part reunion show last night with hugs. “We thought the hugs were a great way to end two seasons of bitterness between the women,” Cohen added.

She tells US Weekly why she chose to leave the show.

“I’m way too good for this,” Staub, 48, tells Us. “They have used me about as much as I can be used.”

I think it’s time for me to move on and upward,” says Staub. “I don’t see any interest for me to be attacked like that.” (Staub’s extensions were ripped out by Laurita’s daughter Ashley Holmes, and she was threatened by Teresa Giudice during the second season’s shocking finale, among many other memorable battles.)

“I mean, what’s left for [the other castmates]? To kill me? Bravo seems to be glorifying their behavior. And I think it’s almost like telling children to behave poorly at school, ‘It’s OK.’”

But Staub has big follow-up plans.

“I want my own show,” she tells Us.

“I want to be me now,” Staub continues. “Not me according to other people. Me…a spin-off is absolutely, positively where I’m going.”

A spin-off, she says, would allow “my kids [Christine, 16, and Jillian, 12] to be seen for the wonderful children that they are. I want to be shown as a mother, an artist, a supporter of my charities and the foundations that I’m passionate about. I want to use my platform to speak about the things that I love in my life.”

What about the future of RHONJ post-Danielle? “The bottom line is, they need me, I don’t need them,” she says. “They don’t talk about anything but me. I don’t talk about them, at all. I talk about me too!”

She adds: “I have no need for them in my life. They have a great need for me to make the show successful. I made it successful.”

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