Ex-wife of real-life Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort recalls the harrowing moment he 'threw her down the stairs' before trying to KIDNAP their daughter - revealing he then CRASHED the car with their child inside

The ex-wife of the real life Wolf of Wall Street has revealed another jaw-dropping tale  about ex-husband Jordan Belfort.

Nadine Macaluso, who was married to Belfort from 1991 to 2005, recalled the time the former stockbroker crashed his car after taking too many drugs - with their young daughter in the vehicle.

Appearing on the Juicy Scoop podcast, the 55-year-old - who shares two children with her ex - explained it had gotten to the point where her own physical health was suffering in the toxic relationship.

'We had gone to a drug counselor [and] he [Jordan] didn't come back the next day.' Macaluso, who is now a licensed family therapist, told host Heather McDonald.

'The drug counselor looked at me, and she said: "If you don't leave this man, you're gonna get cancer,"' she recalled.

Macaluso said the drug counselor's words 'snapped' some sense into her.

'She was like, "This is way too toxic,"' she recalled. 'So I said to him, you have to get sober. 

'I said, "I'm not gonna sit here and watch you kill yourself,"' she said.

According to Macaluso, that was the moment the Wolf of Wall Street went 'crazy.' 

'[He] threw my clothing, jewelry, lit them on fire, put them in the fireplace,' she recalled.

The mom-of-two said she made the decision to leave their home that night, knowing her kids were safe because the housekeeper was there.

'Then I came back, and that's when he said to me, "I'm taking our daughter to Florida, I chartered a private plane,"' she said, adding she knew he was 'wasted.'

'I'm like, over my dead body, you're doing that,' she said furiously. 'And I went after him.'

Macaluso said 'luckily' her own mother had told her to call the police before she got home, as she was going back to a domestic violence situation.

'I chased after him, and he kicked me down the stairs,' she recalled. 'Luckily, I was in really good shape at 31, and I called the police, and they came.'

Macaluso continued: 'I was able to stop him because I said to my housekeeper, close the garage door, [so] we were able to stop him.'

Although the closed garage door did stop Belfort from driving away with their daughter, that's when he drove into the garage door.

Macaluso, who now works as a marriage counselor and family therapist in California, met Jordan Belfort, 61, when she was just 22 years old and working as a model.

The couple's relationship was famously portrayed in the 2013 flick Wolf of Wall Street, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan and Margot Robbie as Nadine, who was renamed Naomi for the movie.

In real life, after Macaluso and Belfort went their separate ways, the marriage counselor and family therapist accused the broker of physical and mental abuse, which she said was fueled by his rampant drug addiction and multiple infidelities. 

The model-turned-therapist has become a viral TikTok star recently for spilling numerous secrets about their marriage - and revealing which scenes of the Martin Scorsese film were accurate and which were exaggerated for the sake of views. 

Belfort spent 22 months in prison after it was revealed he had scammed more than 1,500 people through an stockbroker scheme in 1999.