Danielle Bregoli does not want your pity.
Earlier this week, very disturbing footage surfaced of the 13-year old being pummeled to a pulp by her own mother, Barbara Ann.
The video (below) featured two separate scenes; one of which depicted Barbara hitting her child over and over and over again, while referring to her as a “bitch” and taunting her for not really being touch.
The second scene was only mundane by unfortunate comparison.
It depicted mother screaming at daughter in a way no mother should ever scream at any daughter.
It made us feel sympathy for Bregoli, who rose to fame last fall after appearing on a Dr. Phil segment actually titled “I Want to Give Up My Car-Stealing, Knife-Wielding, Twerking 13-Year-Old Daughter Who Tried to Frame Me for a Crime.”
Barbara sat alongside her troubled teenager at the time and played all innocent, claiming she had tried her best to raise Bregoli right.
It was during this interview that Danielle uttered her immortal line, which has now become her catchphrase:
“Cash me outside, howbow dah?”
In the several months since her rise up the viral scale of fame, Bregoli has gotten into a fight with an airline passenger… taunted Kim Kardashian… and gotten into another fracas with her mother.
For this latest back-and-forth, which took place on March 7, police were called to calm the family members down. (No charges were filed.)
It remains unclear when the brutal footage above was filmed, but The Daily Beast reports that this violent incident took place about three years ago.
That would make Danielle 10 at the time.
At the time her mother grabbed her by the hair, punched her and repeatedly slammed her head into the floor.
Bregoli has said her close friend filmed the melee (and decided to keep filming the melee, instead of interfering or calling the police, apparently) and has also told TMZ that she doesn’t see why anyone is making a big deal over this.
“Me and my mother are not fighting on the floor. We are play fighting,” Bregoli told TMZ when asked about the clip.
She goes on to explain:
“My ex-best friend took it to a whole other level. It wasn’t what it was at all. We were play fighting on the floor and I hit her too hard and she kind of pushed me on the floor.
“That’s all that happened.”
Go ahead and click PLAY on the video above, readers.
And then you tell us: is this really all that happened?
“People need to take their head out of shit they shouldn’t have their head in,” Danielle added to TMZ. “My mother is not abusive, she doesn’t abuse me. I love my mother.”
Earlier this year, Danielle and Barbara received a lifetime ban from an airline after punching a fellow passenger who she claimed had pushed her mom.
Moreover, as most people know, those who abuse others typically were victims of abuse themselves at one point.
It’s a very said, vicious cycle.
We’re not psychologists, but it seems pretty clear that Danielle Bregoli is caught up in this cycle right now.
It doesn’t excuse everything she’s done or said since becoming Internet famous, but it does put most of her life and personality into context.
We really do hope she gets help. She clearly needs a lot of it.