Ivana Trump, President Donald Trump's first wife, said "Washington, it's tough town." | Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images Ivana Trump: I have 'absolutely no problem' with Melania 
 
 President Donald Trump's first wife Ivana Trump said "there's absolutely no problem" between her and first lady Melania Trump, despite calling herself the true "first lady" in more recent days. 
 
 Ivana Trump, who has a new memoir "Raising Trump" out Tuesday, told Fox News in an interview taped last week but broadcast Tuesday that she sees the first lady "here and there," and noted "there's absolutely no problem" between the two. 
 
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 "I said that she is a very nice girl and it is very tough to be on campaign," Ivana Trump said of Melania Trump. 
 
 Ivana Trump went on to address reports that said she criticized the first lady's accent. 
 
 "I sent to Melania the text [saying] the last thing I would want to do is say something bad about you, you know, because you are family and I don't say anything bad or do anything back to the family member," Ivana Trump said. 
 
 Asked whether she'd like to be in first lady's position, Ivana Trump said it was better that Melania Trump was in Washington and not her. 
 
 "Washington, it's tough town," she said. "I was asked to be an American ambassador to Czech Republic. I told [Donald Trump], I said, you know, if he would ask me 10, 15 years ago I would do it. But now I don't want to be in Prague for four years. Could I do [it] well? Yes. But I will also lose my freedom. So, you know, I'm glad that Melania is there and I'm here." 
 
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 But in a more recent interview with "Good Morning America," Ivana Trump said she and the president speak almost every two weeks and that she has a direct line to the White House, but doesn't use it in order to avoid the first lady. 
 
 “I [don’t] really want to call him there, because Melania is there. And I don’t want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that, because I’m basically first Trump wife. OK? I’m first lady,” she said. 
 
 Melania Trump's office responded to Ivana Trump's comments on Monday, calling the comments "attention seeking and self-serving noise." ||||| Ivana Trump is still holding a grudge against Donald Trump‘s second wife, Marla Maples — and she doesn’t care who knows it. 
 
 In her new book, Raising Trump, out Tuesday, Ivana recounts how she’s rejected all of Maples’ public apologies for the actress’ headline-making affair with Trump in the mid-1990s that ultimately broke up his first marriage to Ivana. (Trump was married to Ivana from 1977 until 1992, and to Maples — with whom he shares daughter Tiffany — from 1993 to 1999. He married his third and current wife, First Lady Melania Trump, in 2005.) 
 
 In her book, Ivana refers to Maples almost exclusively as “the showgirl” — and blasts her for “knowingly entering into a relationship with my husband, the father of three small children.” 
 
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 “She actively participated in humiliating me in the media and indirectly put my kids at risk for months,” writes Ivana, who has three children with Trump: Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. “I went through hell, and then I was expected to be okay with her being around my children?” 
 
 “We all have deep scars from that period of our lives, in part due to her actions,” she adds. 
 
 Ivana also criticizes Maples’ stint last year as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, which Trump’s first wife called a “disgrace.” 
 
 “No class!” Ivana said, adding that she’s been asked to appear on the show “a hundred times — and offered a mint.” 
 
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 “But I wouldn’t go on that show, dancing in those tiny dresses with the boobs and butt hanging out,” she added. 
 
 Ivana also slammed Marla for the timing of her DWTS appearance: “The showgirl appeared on DWTS when (because) her ex-husband was running for president! It was disrespectful to do the show. I never would have embarrassed Donald that way.” 
 
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 Ivana went on to recall how Maples recently tried to make amends via an interview with the Daily Mail. “They called to ask if I accepted the apology and I said, ‘Apology not accepted.’ This woman broke up my marriage and took away my kids’ father. I don’t care how sorry she is.” 
 
 Ivana also referenced a PEOPLE interview with Maples from last year in which she said, “If [Ivana is] holding any kind of resentment toward me, I really hope, for her sake, that she can forgive me.” 
 
 “For my sake? She wants my absolution for her sake,” Ivana writes, adding that she’s “doing just fine with my resentment, thank you very much.” 
 
 Despite her obvious disdain for Maples, Ivana denied reports that she left her ex-husband’s January inauguration early to avoid an “awkward run-in with Marla freaking Maples at the party that night.” 
 
 “I didn’t even know she was there! It was ridiculous,” Ivana writes, saying the real reason for her early departure was to get her elderly mother back home to New York. 
 
 “That said, I’m glad I didn’t see Marla that day, or any other day since our two-minute confrontation in 1989 in Aspen,” Ivana writes, referencing the moment she confronted Maples about the affair on the ski slopes of Aspen, Colorado, during a vacation with Trump. 
 
 During her interview with CBS Sunday Morning, which recently aired, Ivana was asked how she gets along fine with Melania but not with Maples. “One is nobody. And the other one is First Lady,” Ivana replied.
– The drama between the president's wives continues: The latest excerpt to trickle out of first wife Ivana Trump's new book has to do with her feelings toward second wife Marla Maples. Let's just say those feelings aren't great: Ivana calls Marla "the showgirl" throughout Raising Trump, adding that she and her three children with her ex have "deep scars from that period of our lives, in part due to her actions." She slams Marla for choosing to get into a relationship with someone she knew was a married father and then "humiliating" Ivana in the media for months, People reports. Ivana also runs down the times Marla has publicly apologized and Ivana has, in turn, rejected those apologies. Last but not least, she slams Marla's appearance on Dancing With the Stars last year. "The showgirl appeared on DWTS when (because) her ex-husband was running for president! It was disrespectful to do the show. I never would have embarrassed Donald that way," Ivana writes. "No class!" She adds that she herself has been offered quite a bit of money to appear on the show, but she refuses to go on TV "dancing in those tiny dresses with the boobs and butt hanging out" and that the fact that Marla did so is a "disgrace." The book was released Tuesday. Also Tuesday, an Ivana interview aired on Fox News in which she said there's "absolutely no problem" between her and Donald's third wife, Melania, but that interview was recorded before Ivana called herself the "first lady" and the actual first lady hit back, Politico reports.