According to Ramona Singer, she didn't have an easy childhood. The Real Housewives of New York star admits that her relationship with her parents was so bad at one point that she was forced to pull a knife on her own father.

Singer, who separated from her husband Mario Singer last summer, is dishing the dirt on her troubled past in her new book, Life on the Ramona Coaster, which is set to hit bookstores later this month.

Bravo's Daily Dish has an excerpt from the book, which details Singer's rocky childhood. She detailed the time her father was particularly aggressive with her and her mother while they were preparing dinner together.

"My father growls that I am useless and I will never amount to anything," she wrote. "He calls me cruel and demeaning names, some of which I don't fully understand. I try to tune out his voice; the hateful words he utters. But, no matter how hard I try, his badgering is getting to me. He gets in my face. I can smell the rancid alcohol on his breath and see the rancor in his eyes. Then he gets in my mother's face, alternating scathing insults between us. Something he says, I can't recall what, hits a nerve. I snap. My life flashes before my eyes."

She then recalls her father physically abusing her mother.

"I lunge toward him, point the sharp blade directly at his face and scream, 'Stop it. Stop it right now!' My eyes grow wild," she details. "'Stop it right now or I swear I will take this knife and shove it into your neck.'"

For more, pick up Singer's book, which will be available beginning July 28.

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