This week is what seems like the 8th week in Napa. The show is all about everyone talking crap about Teresa, her defending herself, chicks fake crying, men acting like children, and the fans getting one step closer to being alcoholics because it has become near impossible to watch without a drink to take the edge off. It is a train wreck and Caroline is to blame.
The entire family is calling Kathy a saint for putting up with Teresa not thanking her in a toast, which is lame. Teresa spoke from the heart about her brother and her hosts, and Kathy is an idiot. She is a troublemaker, a whiner, has chosen to be on the side of hate instead of family, and it’s time for her and her deuchebag, creepy husband to be cut from this show.
To deflect from the tension, Joe Gorga tells everyone to get into the hot tub. Juicy joins him and Albie Manzo wants to know when it’s going to get gay. I think it is hilarious. Albie is not getting undressed until it starts getting gay? The entire Manzo family is a waste of time on this show and they need to move on. By move on, of course I mean get fired by Bravo.
Melissa and Teresa join their husbands in the hot tub. Caroline is complaining she wants the night to end, and Kathy comes over to be an idiot and stir trouble. They invite her into the water and she says she does not want to disturb the family love. She is assured there is love for her, and she says obviously there is not because Teresa left her out of the toast.
Kathy tells the camera that she knows Teresa better than most and she is nothing but a mean girl. She then tells us she is not going anywhere. Really? First she is going to hell. Then she is going to the reality television star unemployment line. She is trying to cause trouble to seem relevant but the fact is that we don’t care about her and she needs to get lost.
Kathy calls out Teresa and Teresa could care less. She never excluded her, it was simply not about Kathy. Teresa calls Kathy insecure, then Kathy gets in the water with her bathing suit wrap on, which is the ultimate in insecure. Kathy then proceeds to confront Teresa about the toast and I am, at four minutes in, opening up a bottle of wine so I can watch it.
Juicy, Melissa and Joe Gorga bail out of the water and you know there is a producer off to the side orchestrating the entire conversation. By conversation of course I mean an ambush of Teresa by Kathy. Teresa is not getting why Kathy has a problem, then it gets weird when Kathy starts talking about Caroline, and Teresa’s mistreatment of her.
The entire Manzo family is sitting on a couch listening to them and it’s beyond stupid. Teresa is telling Kathy she has done what she can to get along with everyone and Kathy is not letting it go. Kathy is picking and picking and Caroline is starting to fume on the couch. With each scene Teresa looks normal and everyone else looks crazy. It is not entertaining.
Teresa walks away from Kathy because it’s stupid, Caroline is ready to fight, and the men are starting to get edgy. Jac is passive aggressive and Caroline thanks Kathy for coming to her defense. Kathy says she just wanted to help and they all know her. Really? We know you too Kathy and you are a pathetic and desperate bitch who is looking to stay on television.
Caroline is bashing Teresa, and Jac and Melissa want nothing to do with it. Caroline is saying Teresa has many faces and the tension is rising. Teresa comes back and Caroline is ready to rumble. She says she can’t even look at Teresa and seriously, it is hilarious. Caroline has gone too far and nobody is trying to reel her back in. She is digging her own grave.
Teresa says she is not sure what to do to make things better, and Caroline continues to throw her under the bus. Caroline is acting like a spoiled bitch. Important to note that Caroline Manzo has not brushed her hair all season and it is getting nasty. We are back to talking about the tabloids and we are reminded this entire season is about hating Teresa for no reason.
Sidebar: The editors of this show need to get fired. The camera goes back and forth between the men and women and it is clearly all scripted. It’s as if they are telling the women, hold your fight for a second, we will be right back, they play the women in the background screaming, but show Caroline smiling and looking around. It is fake and offensive to me as a fan.
Caroline is still talking about the cookbook, and we se how jealous she is that Teresa is getting all the magazine covers and she and her children are going nowhere fast. Teresa is keeping her cool and not getting sucked back into the drama while Caroline is spinning out of control. Jac pretends to sleep through the big fight and I have an intense urge to kick her while she sleeps.
Is Caroline trying to take credit for fixing Teresa’s relationship with her brother? Yes she is. Teresa is amazed at the crap Caroline is spewing while Melissa and Kathy are staying out of it and Jac is fake sleeping. Everyone is going to bail on the Manzo family because it is clear that a future on this show is more likely alongside Teresa than Caroline.
Caroline calls Teresa a liar, fraud, and disgrace. Teresa is offended but holding it together. Caroline says she learned a lot about her through spending time with her family. Teresa is now fuming and asks Kathy if this is what she wanted when she stirred trouble. Kathy tells the camera she thinks maybe she made a mistake getting involved. Really?
Kathy is irrelevant to this show and she was scrambling to figure out a way to stay on it, but picked the wrong side. She sided with Caroline and it is now biting her in the ass. Melissa did the same thing and quickly saw where the opportunities were and switched teams. The show is imploding and in the end the only way to save it is to dump the Manzo clan once and for all.
Back to the men, Chris Laurita is telling Juicy he is unhappy he told people he was shady and Juicy denies it. There is tension for a second, then they get over it. The men all kiss and you see a genuine affection for each other, which is nonexistent with the women. They are not friends, do not like each other, and need to come to blows and start pulling hair already.
Caroline is being a crazy bitch, Teresa is standing up for herself, and it’s lame. Teresa goes to Juicy for backup and Juicy calls out Caroline and tells her to let it all go. The book was a million years ago and she needs to move on. Albie says he will attack whoever attacks his mother and Albert sits back and does nothing, which is kind of his thing on this show.
Juicy wants it to be over, Chris Manzo is defending his mother, and Caroline is saying Juicy is drunk and she is worried Albert will go off and knock out Juicy. The men handle it like grown ups while the bitches are bitches. Albert backed down immediately and you have to wonder about exactly how delusional Caroline really is. Lauren speaks up and says nothing.
Caroline says she is as Italian as Teresa and I’m laughing. Who gets to decide who is more Italian? Lauren is back to the cookbook, Caroline is jealous she is not asked to be on magazine covers and Jac and Melissa are ignoring Caroline. Teresa is now pissed off and cannot believe she is back to defending her fame to people who are jealous and ridiculous.
Teresa is talking to Kathy and lifts her chin so she will look at her and Kathy acts like she hit her and it’s hilarious because Kathy is trying to hard to secure herself another season and I cannot see it happening. She brings nothing to this show but a disgusting husband and a painful whine. Kathy sold her soul to devil for fame and he is now done with her.
Caroline is loving Kathy right now and Teresa is done. Miraculously, Kathy has the magazine story on her phone and starts to quote it. Teresa is saying it was not a big deal and Caroline is budding into the conversation as if the battle is hers. It is uncomfortable to watch and there is no joy in watching people get attacked in this way. Juicy is done and he gets his girl.
Juicy tells Teresa they have an earlier flight and they are going home. Lauren and Caroline are calling her a piece of sh** and Carline says “God help us all” which is hilarious because evoking God is not going to help her desperate and black heart. Lauren Manzo is a total and complete idiot and that she is sharing her opinion is laughable because we don’t care.
Teresa comes back to tell Caroline that she never sold a story about her and Caroline is saying it is over. Teresa bails and Caroline tells Kathy she appreciates her trying but she is done. She says Teresa stinks and hanging around with her is making her stink in return. Caroline is a loser and she is raising her children to be losers too. Time to go Caroline.
Important to note that the reason Caroline stinks is not because she associates with Teresa, but because it would appear she never washes her hair. If you are going to be on television, then maybe just run a brush through your hair once in a while right? She stinks because she is a pig, and in the end jealously has a stench and she bathes in it.
Caroline tells Melissa and Kathy that Teresa has been talking garbage about them forever. She won’t go there, but they need to know it is bad. Joe Gorga comes over, Caroline is calling Teresa a beast, and Joe is not having it. He tells Melissa they are leaving and he is standing with his sister on this one. Melissa agrees and it is the only nice moment on this train wreck.
Lauren says Teresa is lucky her Daddy did not go off on her and I’m laughing. Teresa is surprised but happy Joe and Melissa are leaving with her, and Kathy is in Teresa’s room trying to get more camera time. Kathy is back peddling say she was on her side. Really? We saw you push her under the bus and now you want us to think it was to help Teresa not hurt her?
Kathy is losing her mind because she realizes she picked he wrong side, Melissa wants Teresa to remember they chose her side, and Caroline is crying like a baby in the bathroom. Next week will mark the return of Dina Manzo but even fabulous Dina can’t help the Manzo’s now. If Dina sticks by Teresa and not Caroline then she will be the only Manzo to keep it real.
We begin in a hotel in Chicago where Chris is looking at a magazine. Teresa is on the cover of “In Touch” with her girls posing with a puppy and the article is titled “terrified of being broke”. Chris and Jac remind us that Teresa is afraid of dogs.
We swing on over to Caroline’s hotel room where she is wearing her robe and trying to get Lauren to order a platter of cheese and other stuff complaining that she’s going to have a $5,000 room service bill. Just then, also in his robe ,Kato Kaelin Greg saunters over to Carolyn and Lauren and says, “did no one bring toothpaste on this trip?”
Carolyn says, “I have toothpaste but is it your brand of toothpaste that you like?
Then the picky homeless mooch, Greg says, “I think its gross”
Lauren says, “Well then, you slug, you go get something that doesn’t taste minty and sparkly.”
Greg: “I will”
As Greg lumbers out (without his wallet), I can’t help but stare at his butt hoping to see pantylines under that robe. (I know…I’m sorry…)
So Greg, (who tagged along on this all-expense-paid trip without even his own toothpaste), walks back in with a stack of magazines (which was probably charged to the room, along with his non-minty toothpaste). Obviously wanting to contribute in some way to the occasion he says he got his toothpaste then takes a magazine over to Caroline and says “did you hear about…. have you read this? I mean, she kinda threw you under the bus”.
(An unfortunate visual image permanently burned into my brain.)
Inside the magazine are quotes from Caroline, Kathy, MeGo and Kim G– and references they allegedly made about Teresa’s finances.
In Caroline’s headshot she says, “What’s even worse than being called a bully from a bully is the fact that she claims that we’re bullying her because of her financial situation right now…how insulting…. we’re the ones that were there when no one else was and then you go and slap us in the face…for what?” (Is Caroline crediting herself for getting Teresa on the show?)(Speaking of users, Caroline….want to add anyting about that that tall, mooching sloth eating your food, brushing his teeth with your toothpaste and hanging out in your crib?)
In the article Teresa allegedly says she doesn’t feel the need to keep up with the Jones’ and then Lauren chimes in with remarks about a purse and Joe’s shirt.
Then Caroline, who never makes unkind remarks about Teresa or her finances says, “Joe Giudice can live in a cardboard box as long as he’s got his homemade wine, his cigars and his friends… but the pressure that she has put on him to keep up with Melissa… then we’re seeing things.”
Back at their suite, Jac and Chris Laurita talk about the article and Chris gives Teresa credit for hustling and says the article wasn’t that bad.
Back to Caroline, who apparently received the bulk of judgmental-ism and pettiness in the Laurita family points out that Teresa is going to a wedding with her family and doing the article.
“It’s despicable. You came to a very big event in our lives with my family…. Ok….your supposed to be my (pretend) friend (because you haven’t heard me dogging you out every episode already). Why didn’t you talk with me about this? That to me is the worst kind of coward…it’s the worse kind of person”
Greg (crossing his fingers) says.. “so now what do you do? I don’t think you can really simmer down and have a conversation with her.”
Lauren says, its not worth it.
In her headshot, Caroline says:
“Everything with Teresa is show. She’s very smart in the way she hits. She hits and runs when there’s an audience and she makes herself look like the victim….and before you have a chance to speak and tell your side of the story, she’s gone. (Whereas I don’t say anything to your face at all, I just run my mouth behind your back so you never hear what I’ve said for another year.) So shut your mouth and suck it up. I don’t care what it takes… don’t give her what she wants, don’t play the game… shut up.”
They determine to (diss Teresa on camera in private headshots) take the high road
Greg , still wearing his robe, pushes in the breakfast cart. (Why is this waste of a tub-ring still on camera?)
Teresa and Joe arrive after individually and obnoxiously ringing the doorbell. Teresa and Jac get ready and Teresa says she wants to see Jac in a hat because she looks like the Princess, Kate Hudson who is a descendent of the Royal Hudson brother’s and The Duchess Private Benjamin.
Jac asks Teresa about the magazine and Teresa tells Jac that In Touch brought the dog to the photo shoot. She says she doesn’t have anything to do with choosing the words on the cover and that they ask her questions and she answers. She wants to put to bed the rumors about them getting a divorce, Joe’s cheating, that she’s with another man, and they’re going to renew their vows.
In her talking head Jac (behind Teresa’s back) says that Teresa is losing her sense of realness.
On the magic bus the Giudices, Lauritas, Manzos (and their little tag-a-long, Greggy), Teresa says that Melissa’s shore house is done and everyone laughs…
(Pretending to be her friend so Teresa says something they can use against her later,) Jac says, “…so now she has a redone home?”
Apparently (Mel) has a redone home now too.
Queue to Melissa talking to her shore neighbors, Miles and Mira, and she fishes for compliments on the redone shore house. She says how she wanted things……and they don’t seem interested in what she’s talking about but she keeps talking anyway. She says they wanted to do something else with the house but “you know what, I’ve got the big house at home”. Back to Miles and Mira…
Melissa keeps droning on about how they’re going to have a party and it could get loud and they’ll use their deck if it gets too big. And sometimes Joe starts to take off his clothes in the driveway but to ignore it.. and if they hear something that sounds like Edward Scissorhads milking a cow to just ignore it,…because they will be blasting her new song, Rockstar…just in case Pauly D is still on the shore. (ROCKSTAR??? Are you trying to send subliminal messages now? I’m going to have to play that crap backwards…)
At the shore house everyone starts arriving. Lyssssssa Sssssimpson starts making drinks and Joe arrives holding a magazine with Tre on the cover. Melissa says, “another one”?
Kathy is bugging her eyes out…
Mel says in her headshot, “I get it. You need to make money, make your money. But at the same time, you need to be loyal to your family (because if anyone can talk about loyalty, that’s this ho you’re lookin at.). Maybe she can go see a therapist about that. I’m sorry, that’s how I feel.
Kathy loyally tells her cousin’s, wife’s, sister, Lyssssssa… “who do I believe..the one I see on the magazine covers or the one in front of me..”?
Back on the love bus, Chris Laurita makes an announcement about Blackwater and he wants to go on a trip to Napa and invites everyone in the bus—and is able to finally wipe those smiles right off the Manzo’s faces.
Then Teresa tells Caroline her hat is perfect for the dress she’s wearing.
Head shot of Caroline saying, “…you know…shut up …now that I know about your stupid article, ok….now I know… it’s so great… you’re sitting on the bus like you’re my friend… (because we’re really only pretend friends) ..you and your hat shut up.”
Finally, they all arrive at the ceremony and Rich and Jaime arrive on a carriage.
The ceremony begins…
“Please turn to each other and share your thought and emotions at this moment….”
Sorry to interrupt but my boyfriend who hates all the housewives…..looks up from the computer and says….
“Hey, wasn’t that the guy that was just on ultimate fighter?”
(Rich does look a little like Vinc Pichel on the right, doesn’t he?)Sorry…back to the wedding…
Caroline gives her sermon speech about a story made up of mountains of minds…, big minds, little minds, small minds…no minds… losing your mind…
Then Rich and Jaime exchange rings, kiss and release butterflies…(which was really cute)..
Back at the Jersey Shore, Joe announces that they’re going to try something new…(promote themselves and turn the stereo up full blast while Miles and Mira are next door trying to get their dogs to quit howling….) Joe says they are going to play Melissa’s new song, Rockstar. Melissa then claims in her headshot she’s embarrassed…(and her acting sux even worse than last weeks warehouse scene where I’m now wishing Freddie had really been hiding.) They start playing the music and everyone is gathered around drinking and cheering and pretending it’s good.
Then we’re with Joe G and Rich as they go outside… and Rich (exposes the agenda) suggests they have someone mediate between Joe and Teresa….and Rich says, “Thery’re out at Chicago at the wedding, right? (Let’s kill two birds, we’ll buzzkill their good time and we can document this shiz for the camera..) At least she doesn’t have her kids pulling on her so there’s no excuse for her not to answer this text. This way you did it in front of me,… I’m even a witness….”
Then Rich,who suggestsTeresa needs help butwho is a grown ass man and doesn’t know how to put shoes on by himselfsays, “You text her..that’s twice…you did what you had to do. “ “My wife didn’t get me my f@$)ing slippers..I’m gonna kill her. Oh my god, this is killing me bro…”
Then we sees a short clip on the bus where Juicy tells Lauren she’s on the Titanic..and Lauren, who is accustomed to being the object of fat jokes, starts saying.., “dont say I look like the unsinkable Molly Brown…” and Joe says no, the one with all the money and talks a lot…and then Lauren says she’s huge…. pan to Greg….
……and I’m wishing Juicy would mention farting just to wipe that smile off Kato’s face.
Teresa is at the table at the reception where everyone just ate and are talking….like what happens at receptions…and peole talk…..and Teresa says she just got a text message…. And that her book is on the New York times bestseller list. Just then everyone stops smiling (who am I kidding…she’s sitting with the Manzo’s and puss-face Greggy..) Envious Caroline in her headshot: “Can anybody have anything…anything…its my brothers wedding…I don’t wanna talk about your stupid cookbook”.
Back at the shore with the MeGorgas, Mel says in her headshot: “I have to say Joe and I have always been the party people. We like to keep it classy and yet sexy at the same time. That’s what Joe and I do, that’s our motto.” (Classy?)
Then Rich, compassionate for all the things Teresa is going through says in his headshot, “Thank god Teresa and Joe are in Chicago because I don’t want any bullshit at this party. She’s lost in space these days, Teresa. And her new so called family are finding out the hard way.”
Teresa tells Jac that she got a text from her brother… and Jac in her headshot says…
“I like being there for my friends, I really do. But sometimes it’s like the same stuff over and over again. I wish she could handle the situation and get past it for once and for all…” (and ….like buy a one-way plane ticket, just like I did for my daughter…)
In Teresa’s headshot she says, “I want things to work out with my brother and I but this is a little bit dramatic…”
Then Jac, who is NOT in collusion with anyone, says….” Maybe he’s just looking for someone to mediate, you know that will help sort his thoughts and help you to communicate.” In her headshot Jac says, “I feel like I can’t even help her..”
Back at the reception, Rich and Jaime light up “Wish Lanterns” and release them in the air….and they make it over the house and the trees without igniting anything…that we know of….
In Jac’s headshot she summarizes how to solve all her pretend friends problems and says… “Teresa, if she would allow herself to be who she is faults and all, she would be a happy woman (and so would we because we’re having a problem convincing people its her fault…)… for real and not for fake”.
Preview for next week…Teresa finally comes out of her shell…
Scenes from last weekends episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Melissa, Joe, Kathy and Rich show us how they party “all the time” like Rockstars. There were a lot of drinks, whip cream, and everyone was having a great time…
In the video below we hear Kathy talking with Teresa about watching Audriana during the Gorga christening party when a fight broke out. Other cast members chime in about “family”…have they changed their tune?
We need a special correspondent to interview the neighbors–can anyone talk to Miles and Mira and report back?
Jacqueline Laurita blogged about season 4 in her season 3 blog: she told Teresa to ignore the fact the Melissa contacted Danielle in 2009-2010 because it was ‘two years ago’ and Teresa needs to ‘let go of the past’. She is totally disregarding the fact that this act of betrayal by Melissa has had an extremely negative affect on Teresa’s well being and livelihood. And she is not addressing the serious question: “How can Teresa trust her brother and SIL after such a betrayal, for which they have yet to to admit or apologize.”
Based on Jacqueline’s August 15, 2011, blog last year, Eye Opener, we can expect Jacqueline to defend Melissa when it comes to light in season 4, episode 8, that Melissa contacted Danielle. Melissa’s reasons for contacting Danielle, which probably will not be aired, were to:
Ask her to bring her onto the show to get back at Teresa, and
Feed her information to use against Teresa Guidice (Melissa’s goal was not only to inflame Teresa, but to also get herself noticed by the Bravo producers).
Melissa contacting Danielle was brought to Teresa’s attention during her appearance on WWHL in August 2011 (season 4, episode 8, to be aired on June 17, 2012, was filmed just after Teresa’s WWHL appearance).
Preview of season 4, episode 8 (video below) – Jacqueline Laurita tries to get Teresa Giudice to look at this feud from another angle but Teresa is having none of it:
“In the preview of the Tre, Jac and Caroline confrontation, Teresa brings up Melissa contacting Danielle and Jac responds that it was two years ago and should be forgotten; then she chastises Teresa for contacting her more recently about the same issue.I just thought it was strange that Jac seemed to know it was true that Melissa had contacted Danielle. I thought it was even stranger that she seems to be fine with this even though this was during the same period that Danielle was supposedly out to destroy the Manzo/Laurita clan — but Jac was angry that Teresa had contacted Danielle over whether or not it was true.Did Melissa already admit to contacting Danielle via facebook? Why is this fine with Caroline and Jac but not fine with them that Teresa supposedly contacted Danielle more recently about something that actually personally had to do with her?” – g-electra, June 12, 2012, IMDb.com
Melissa has always maintained she was not the one who fed Danielle the reunion information about Teresa; Danielle stated otherwise, claiming she has proof in the form of voice mails and emails.
Teresa told fans in August 2011:
“Last night on the WWHL after show Andy read me a tweet from Danielle Staub (!)”.
Teresa detailed further what the message from Danielle to Gorga stated:
“@melissagorga Melissa Did you ever tell Teresa you were contacting me constantly? Did you tell Tre you wanted to come on with me last season To get back at her? and every time you & Tre’s brother begged me to come on w me-I said no!”
Teresa at the time was unsure if the message was true:
“I have no idea if it’s true, but I pray it’s not. I want nothing more than my family back… I wish I could magically fix it, but it’s gonna take time & trust & lots of prayers.”
Here is Danielle’s tweet to Andy:
“@bravoandy @bravotv Maybe I should show everyone what @melissagorga wrote my fb inbox about Teresa?”
Danielle also claimed that in November 2009, Melissa sent this message:
“will you (DS) help me expose Teresa and Joe please?”
Here are Danielle’s tweets to Melissa:
“@melissagorga Melissa Did you ever tell Teresa you were contacting me constantly?”
“@melissagorga did you tell tre you wanted to come on w me last season To get back at her”
“@melissagorga and everytime you & Tre’s brother begged me to come on w me – I said no!”
When a fan tweeted that Melissa was the one who fed Danielle the reunion info, Danielle responded with:
“she did indeed tell me how else would I know.”
Following Danielle’s tweets, Melissa tweeted the following denial:
“Let’s be clear. After I posted abt the xmas cookies incident on FB she approached me to film w/ her. Did I film? No! Begged her? Please.”
Let’s contrast the above tweet by Melissa in August 2011 with her statement on June 12, 2012:
“When I was pregnant with Joey, Danielle reached out to me on Facebook after I posted about the Christmas cookie incident. Yes, I did talk to her. For some reason I felt sorry for her watching how Teresa went after her, and I did vent to her about my issues with Teresa. This was all addressed already at the Season 3 reunion. It was well over three years ago and since then I thought that we were working to get to a better place, but I guess I have moved on and she has not.” – Melissa Gorga, June 12, 2012, A Real ‘Rockstar’
Note: Melissa’s communication with Danielle was not ‘all addressed’ at the season 3 reunion; it was glossed over by Andy. Melissa said on the the season 3 reunion:
“I exchanged a few tweets and an email with her.”
“If liar Melissa admitted to exchanging a few tweets and an email, imagine what the real truth is! I bet Melissa had been spamming Danielle with a storm of tweets, Facebook messages, and emails, begging Danielle to have her featured on the show as “a friend of Danielle”. She’s worse than Kim G, who, if I’m not mistaken, shared her personal driver with Danielle just to be on camera!” [Stanton Hargrave, June 12, 2012, Teresa's Bravo Blog]
Melissa Marco Gorga finds it amazing how you can bring Christmas cookies to someones house, then go back there again the next day after Christmas b/c of a different celebration, and the woman of the house picks up some cookies and says to you, “these are the k…ind of cookies I like, when you come to my house bring these cookies, I threw out the ones that you brought, did you get them from A & P, a supermarket.” NO I replied, I got them from Corrados, an excellent Italian shop, that we all know and love. And I’m pregnant so those caught my eye and I bought them, then she replied, “I threw them in the garbage I don’t like those kinds of cookies” NOTE TO SELF: I should have said, “Well they are better then the NOTHING THAT YOU BRING TO MY HOUSE EVERY EASTER!!” How can someone be so rude, and always want to attack someone else, what could it be, HMMMMM! I think I might know but I wont go there. I think some people need to come back to plant earth, Oh I forgot, she also let everyone know Last night, AND I QUOTE “I AM A CELEBRITY”. I’ve been quiet for so long but now you’ve pushed me right over the edge! RIGHT OVER IT!!
Danielle then responded stating she has saved emails and voicemails from Melissa:
“Be careful dear I saved all your lengthy emails and recorded your calls to me you sure you wanna lie ???”
Staub claims Gorga wrote her the message:
“will you (DS) help me expose Teresa and Joe please?”
Reportedly Teresa thereafter believed the alleged exchange between Gorga and Staub did occur:
“But someone else was tweeting tonight too. Thank you @daniellestaub for telling the truth. I’m sad but not surprised.”
Staub, however, claims that Gorga has since tried to deny the communications:
“Be careful dear I saved all your lengthy emails and recorded your calls to me you sure you wanna lie?”
Jacqueline’s loyalty is not to Teresa, but to the Marcos (which includes Joe Gorga) and Wakiles, and they are all out to make sure Teresa ‘falls’; the cast is banding together in numbers to make their case against Teresa.
Family members that truly love each other do not go on a TV show and air their dirty laundry, especially behind a family member’s back.
“You need to fall in order to see what you have done wrong.” – Joe Gorga to Teresa Giudice, season 4, episode 4
“Thank god Teresa and Joe are in Chicago because I don’t want any bullshit at this party. She’s lost in space these days, Teresa. And her new so-called family are finding out the hard way.” – Richie Wakile and his co-conspirators didn’t like that Teresa wasn’t devastated by being estranged from her brother and cousin — she still enjoyed her friends, whom she referred to as family. So what is the Mego/Kathy agenda: The best way to hurt Teresa is not just humiliate her in front of her ‘fans’ but to cause a rift between her and her ‘friends.’ Guess what Richie? If her so called ‘friends’ were so quick to turn on Teresa, they were not worth having and very worth losing. [Antonella, June 11, 2012, StoopidHousewives]
“There is money in the Bravo franchises… and the only reason why Kathy and Melissa joined the show was so that they could make some money (get a piece of the pie, as Kathy explained on The View: ‘It’s a big pie…why can’t everyone have a piece of it??’… they’ve admitted it as well. By taking you down and making themselves look better (so they thought), it would bring more money in for themselves. Teresa is the star of the show, and the harder they try to take her down in such a nasty and vicious way, the more she comes out on top.” – Ruby2, June 12, 2012, Teresa’s Bravo Blog
Jacqueline betrayed Teresa time and again by sticking her nose in Teresa’s business and, after intimately befriending Melissa and Kathy, discussing with Teresa’s back-stabbing family what Teresa told her in confidence; she also repeated her conversations with Teresa to Caroline, who she knew had a problem with Teresa.
Jacqueline’s loyalty to Teresa began to diminish in season 3 and was completely gone by the time season 4 began to film, probably due to three factors:
Her belief that Teresa was stealing business opportunities from her; and
The lies she was hearing about Teresa from the Marcos (they will say anything to ruin Teresa’s relationships).
Jacqueline was easily swayed by the Marcos to betray Teresa because she and Caroline truly believed that if weren’t for Teresa, they would have successful business ventures from their exposure on Bravo.
“The issues going on between her and Jacqueline and Caroline have nothing to do with me. It’s pretty obvious they are upset with her for their own reasons. I will say that there definitely is a sense of reality that is missing lately with the fake dogs and all the other nonsense stories. Teresa doesn’t ever have to worry about me taking anything from her, she loses her credibility all by herself.” – Melissa Gorga, June 12, 2012, A Real ‘Rockstar’
The cast is in collusion to defame Teresa. They have an evil agenda to take her down. It is obvious from post season 3 interviews, season 4 footage and interviews, and season 4 blogs that they are working from the same script.
Jacqueline’s role was to pretend to be Teresa’s friend in season 4. Her job was to:
Get Teresa to share confidential information about her legal issue on camera;
Suggest to Teresa that if she were truly interested in fixing the relationship with her brother, she would agree to go to therapy with him; and
Encourage her not to contact Danielle to find out what Melissa said about her.
“I have to say, if I had a SIL that said, my love for my brother, was ‘weird’ and did so PUBLICLY, encouraging others to TWIST the meaning of that love and bond between a brother and sister — and then, to boot, that brother adds more fuel to a fire that had no business ever being started — well, I wouldn’t trust the motives here by SIL. Of course, neither of my brothers married women who have issues with their husbands being close to their sisters. Thank God! Maybe, Joe Gorga doesn’t understand that a therapy session would be CONFIDENTIAL, unless of course, he and Mel wanted them to film their sessions??? I guess if you accuse a sister of being too close to your husband (her brother) one minute, but then turn around and say ‘go to therapy WITH my husband’ the next minute, most sisters would have lost any sense of trust by that point. Just try putting, your own son and daughter in the same situation. Kathy, if Victoria’s love for Joseph was twisted into something unnatural, by his wife no less, would you still want her to go, knowing Victoria had been humiliated already more then once with Joseph and his wife? Creepy Right! You just don’t do to a brother and sister what Missy did.” – kat44, June 11, 2012, Kathy’s Bravo Blog
They are beating the therapy-with-your-brother suggestion to death in every episode, trying to make it look like Teresa’s brother is the only one interested in repairing their relationship. Either they knew Teresa would refuse therapy, and planned to use this to show that only Joe Gorga was willing to make an effort, or they believed they could pressure her into going, with the goal of twisting what she says in therapy to her detriment (just like they did with the “she will leave you for a richer man” comment made in confidence off camera to her brother during the hiatus from filming between season 3 and season 4, which her brother chose to share with the world).
“I see my husband Joe doing nothing but putting his two feet forward and also trying to move on with his sister. He is trying his hardest to convince her that they need to do something to fix it.” – Melissa Gorga, June 12, 2012, A Real ‘Rockstar’
“Bravo should never ever ever be allowed to film any therapy sessions for anybody ever like for the rest of forever. Never Ever. And it’s shocking and down right belligerent that they would even try this crap again this soon after Russel’s death. And stoopid of MeGo and JoGo for not knowing better or not caring.” – madepiley, June 11, 2012, StoopidHousewives
Jacqueline is a poor actress and failed in pressuring Teresa to confide in her (on or off camera). Teresa was very selective in what she was sharing with Jacqueline; perhaps she could sense that Jacqueline did not have good intentions or perhaps she was being more cautious because she already had been burned by her brother and his wife, and by her cousin and her husband.
Jacqueline accuses Teresa of being fake because she won’t share her financial struggles and legal issues with her ‘friends’; however, Teresa is simply protecting her family. Instead of being supportive, Jacqueline is furious and is accusing Teresa of telling the tabloids her issues while keeping them secret from her ‘friends’ (if Jacqueline were a real friend she simply would lend an ear without judging, just as Teresa did with Jacqueline when she spoke of Ashlee last season). Thankfully, Teresa hasn’t fallen into her fake friends’ and back-stabbing family’s trap.
In her June 12, 2012 blog, A Real ‘Rockstar’, Melissa continues her criticism of Teresa for the tabloid story featured on season 4 episode 8:
“I guess in her mind, there is a difference between what she is willing to share with the tabloids for money and what she will share with her friends and family. Please take note, if there are constantly stories in the tabloids, the show is going to address it. If you don’t want these issues to be brought up on the show, then don’t address them in the tabloids.”
Caroline, Jacqueline, Melissa, Kathy, Joey and Richie are bent out of shape about a tabloid printing quotes that they themselves said on camera, and fault Teresa for it, yet they have no problem bashing her every episode for millions of viewers to see. They get worked up about what’s in print as if what’s on film is not as bad when, in actuality, it’s worse because the viewers can see them saying the words (people can be misquoted in print, you big dummies).
In her June 12, 2012 blog, Cover Girl, Teresa explains how the tabloids work:
“Why not get paid if you can? They’re making money selling your face, why shouldn’t you get something? Here’s how I feel about that: if the magazine is going to run a story about you anyway and you have no control about what the story will be, what will be on the cover, even how they might twist your own quotes or use ugly pictures of you, why not get paid for a professional photo shoot? If I say no, they’re going to do the story anyway, but the photos will probably not be pretty, like the recent cover of US Weekly with my arms crossed when I look all mad. Who wants that?
“They put me on the cover because apparently magazines sell really well when I’m on them. I’m not sure if that’s flattering or not since the stories aren’t typically very flattering. I’m not saying being wanted is better or somehow desirable because in most cases it isn’t, but to say that I have any control over it is false. And they know it.
“So on this episode they were all acting so shocked at the story they said I put out. First of all, they know I didn’t put it out. Yes, for that one I posed for the photos rather than have random street shots of me used. During the shoot they asked me some questions, and I answered them. Some of them, not even all of them. And I didn’t say anything bad about anyone. What did I say? They were asking all about how my friends were treating me now that I was in bankruptcy. Obviously they wanted me to say something mean or crazy, but I didn’t.
“As far as the other ladies, their quotes are from THEM, not me. Those are the things they said themselves on the show. If a writer wants to label them as “insults,” what can I do? Nothing. Just like I could do nothing about the cover headline: ‘I’m terrified of being poor.’ The editors write that I’m ‘bullied by my friends for being broke.’ Not my quote, not from me.
“What’s crazy is that Caroline acts like it is from me. As if I’m some master magazine publisher who puts these stories out. I don’t put them out. They go out with or without me. And Caroline, Jacqueline, Melissa, Kathy and their husbands KNOW THIS.
“How about the OK! Magazine cover that came out TWO WEEKS before this one and was also on stands while we were filming? I wasn’t asked about the story, wasn’t interviewed, and they don’t have a single quote from me. Inside the story says ‘On the Brink of Divorce’ and quotes a bunch of ‘insiders’… AND QUOTES MELISSA.
“There’s Melissa smiling under the headline Melissa “Tells OK! Exclusively Why She Believes She’ll Never Bury The Hatchet With Her Sister-in-Law.” Wow. So Melissa put that headline out there? Not very loyal to family… And here are a few of Melissa’s direct quotes: ‘Joe (Giudice) doesn’t always speak the truth. A lot of the things I hear him say are false.’ And ‘I always was nothing but good to Teresa,’ ‘Teresa and I both know the reason we’re not close,’ ‘She was never happy for any of the good things that went on in our lives.’ This was done right before she filmed everything she said about the In Touch article at her pool party while wiping away a fake tear.
“Regardless of the photos, I can’t control what’s on the cover or when, and I usually hate what they say.”
Jacqueline is doing just what the Marcos want her to do, and that is to drill Teresa for confidential information and to convince her to drop her investigation into the accusations made by Danielle against Melissa. Melissa does not want her deception to be revealed on camera: she is guilty and she is afraid she will be exposed for the back-stabbing liar that she is.
“I’ve been on the show for almost two years now, and I think it’s time for her to let it go… I’m sorry Teresa has such an issue with me, but it’s time she moves on and gets over it like she said she has… Teresa’s financial issues were already out in the open and the tabloid covers and ‘posed pictures’ were already happening well before we joined the show… Teresa constantly brings up the fact that I joined the show “behind her back” and that Danielle and I were in contact. I said this last year and will say it again: When I was pregnant with Joey, Danielle reached out to me on Facebook after I posted about the Christmas cookie incident. Yes, I did talk to her. For some reason I felt sorry for her watching how Teresa went after her, and I did vent to her about my issues with Teresa. This was all addressed already at the Season 3 reunion. It was well over three years ago and since then I thought that we were working to get to a better place, but I guess I have moved on and she has not.” – Melissa Gorga, June 12, 2012, A Real ‘Rockstar’
Note to Melissa: It is early in season 4, this coming episode (episode 8) was filmed in August 2011, and Teresa had just found out that you had been in contact with Danielle to conspire to take her down, so it hasn’t been ‘almost two years’ at all and it is not ‘time for her to let it go’.The episode (episode 8) where you are exposed as a conniving, immoral sub-human is about to air, and you don’t want the truth to come out — Teresa has every right to know what you did to her behind her back, and the viewers have the right to know too.You must come clean about what you did to get on the show and you must ask for Teresa’s forgiveness in order for her to heal and to be able to trust you or her brother again. You must stop with the plotting and scheming to defame Teresa with your maliciously evil acts.
The cast are all in collusion, and are using the same strategy, which they developed before season 4 began to film in late May 2011. The had two months to meet and conspire between the wrapping of season 3 in late March 2011 and the filming of season 4 beginning in late May 2011. They are all using the same phrases to describe Teresa in their talking head interviews and blogs, and they couldn’t be more obvious:
Teresa is fake and a bully and is losing her sense of reality
Teresa is not loyal to her family (Melissa has a lot of nerve to question Teresa’s loyalty when Teresa’s brother has none)
Teresa is trying to breakup Melissa’s marriage
Teresa is a bad aunt and mother (these haven’t stuck)
Teresa doesn’t support our business endeavors and also tries to steal them
Teresa is in cahoots with Kim D and Penny to setup Melissa to expose her past
Joe Giudice is homophobic
Teresa doesn’t want to fix her relationship with her brother
Teresa never takes responsibility for her actions
Teresa is playing victim but Melissa is the real victim
Melissa is doing everything she can to fix the relationship between Joe and Teresa but Teresa doesn’t care (when, in fact, Melissa is the root cause of the conflict and the others are just pawns in her game)
Remember, Melissa is the one who said this about Teresa during season 4, episode 7:
“I get it—you need to make money, [so] make your money—but at the same time, you need to be loyal to your family.”
Three strippers vs. a virgin appears to be what this is all about. Teresa says she was a virgin until age 23 and has only been with one man, Juicy Joe; Danielle has admitted to being a stripper (past and present); Jacqueline and Melissa both deny the stories. Jacqueline has abandoned her 10-year friendship with Teresa for a friendship with the Marco sisters, who are master manipulators. Jacqueline is believing all their lies. She has been deceived by immoral sisters who will stop at nothing for fame and fortune.
“I once tweeted Jacqueline something in defense of Teresa, and I was immediately DM’ed by the Marco sisters asking to delete my tweets because Jac was their friend. They never once asked me to delete anything negative I wrote about Teresa!” – MarcoSistersFan, April 25, 2012
“@JacLaurita You look beautiful!” – Donna Marco (Melissa’s mother), April 25, 2012
Classic Tweets By Jacqueline About Teresa Giudice:
“Teresa put out an article that I text her and threatened to release those pictures and I didn’t! I wanted to prove that. Teresa is scum!”
“What until u hear the rest.There is much more but I’m letting it all unravel little by little all on it’s own.No more talk about it!”
“Another disgusting display of Teresas lies. Keep hanging yourself!Tell every1 the plan2file4bankruptcy#2@how u laugh At beating the system!”
“Teresa,keep spending all the money u do &making profit from people/ fake stories u sell.It will catch up to u.U never stopped spending.”
The following is an excerpt from Jacqueline’s 2011 blog from LAST season: her comments are directed at Teresa concerning Danielle and the tweets from Danielle claiming that Melissa back-stabbed Teresa by contacting her and giving up family secrets (all of which were lies).
I am also very surprised that you tweeted and then added to your blog that transparent paragraph about Danielle while speaking out both sides of your mouth. On the one hand you’re telling her thank you, then the next tweet it was you don’t believe her and to leave your family alone.
On the other side you are clearly begging her to come up with proof to expose Melissa of something she may or may not have said two years ago during rough times between the two of you.
In my opinion, that is totally irrelevant now. She should have given up that information to you two years ago when it WAS relevant.
According to your blogs and interviews in other media outlets, you have always claimed that Danielle has never done anything to you, and she doesn’t bother or phase you. So why do you even care anyway, right? (Even though I know you don’t really feel that way.)
Besides, if you really mean what you say about not wanting to ever rehash the past and only wanting to move forward, and you sincerely want to make things better between you and your family, it probably wasn’t a good idea to even humor Danielle by saying you even care either way and that you even want proof. You know she’s just looking to stay relevant. I thought she said she wasn’t into drama. What do you think her motive was by tweeting that? Your well being?
My advice, Teresa – It’s in the PAST! You are in a much better place now with your family now (sort of). Keep rolling forward. I’m only telling you this because I care and I didn’t like seeing you hurting over your family, and I know how hard the two of you have worked to get your relationship to where it is today. Don’t go back to that dark place. It doesn’t benefit your relationship with Melissa today, and it doesn’t look good for you to be encouraging Danielle to “show proof.”
It also upset me very much that you would even entertain someone that was so toxic in ALL of our lives. WHY would you open that dangerous, ugly door again to invite in trouble (for everybody)? I don’t get you. BAD MOVE!
Jacqueline may have ulterior motives in encouraging Teresa not to communicate with Danielle:
Jacqueline siding with Danielle at the season 1 dinner (the one with the infamous table flip) could have been because Danielle knows the truth about Jacqueline’s past, and she feared Danielle would expose her if she didn’t show her support. When everyone turned against Danielle, it was the perfect opportunity for Jacqueline to make Danielle look like a crazy liar, discrediting her on camera so that no one would ever believe anything she said, including anything about Jacqueline’s past.
During the reunion special for season 2, which aired on October 8, 2011, Danielle called Jacqueline a Vegas whore; Jacqueline reacted by jumping up and threatening Danielle. Bravo reran the season 2 reunion special as part of the marathon leading up to the premiere of season 4: it was odd that they chose to rerun a reunion special from two seasons ago yet didn’t rerun all the episodes from season 3 (only about half of them were rerun).
Jacqueline quickly changed her tune after Danielle called her a Vegas whore during reunion 2 because she feared Danielle was about to expose her secrets. She went from hysterical to calm and collected, wanting to move past it all. She called a truce with Danielle because she saw what Danielle did to Teresa (bringing up the ‘nephew’ lie that Melissa fed her), and she didn’t want the same thing done to her. She said “I really don’t want to do this anymore”, and then told Danielle she forgives her for filing charges against Ashlee, etc. At this point, Danielle hugged it out with Teresa and Jacqueline, saying “sorry” and “no more.” Here’s a description of what happened (this happened at the end of part 2 of reunion 2, which is not available on youtube):
Teresa, after Danielle tells Andy she’ll drop the lawsuits, says: “Can I just say one thing? Danielle, I never called a newspaper, a magazine, tweet about you, never do I do any of that. I have four beautiful daughters, that’s what I concentrate on, not you. I’m not trying to take you down. That’s not what I’m trying to do. You attacked me and I attacked you back. That’s it. But am I trying to hurt you in a bad way. No.” (Danielle gets up and walks over with open arms to Teresa, leans down and hugs her and gently says to Teresa, ‘Sorry’; Teresa hugs her back, all while Caroline is making ridiculous faces; and then Danielle moves on to hug Jac and gently says ‘Sorry’ (Jacqueline looks petrified); Teresa lifts up her arms and leans backward with a sigh and a smile, then fans herself and says ‘Faint’).
Jacqueline likes to talk and she most likely told Danielle things she regrets. And Jacqueline may not have completely cut off Kim G because Kim G knows and believes things Danielle told her about them all.
Here are some interesting comments from viewers about Jacqueline’s 2011 blog and season4 episode 8:
“One of the things that made Jac go crazy (and which she referenced in a very nasty blog post on August 15, 2011,LAST season) was the fact that Teresa seemed open to meeting with Danielle to find out just what Danielle was talking about when it came to Melissa. I remember watching the WWHL episode when Teresa was on, and Danielle tweeted something like, “Ask Teresa if she knows how much Melissa was contacting me” and implied that Melissa was trash-talking Teresa to Danielle. You could tell by Teresa’s facial expression that she was shocked, and, at some point in the show, she said, “Well, tell Danielle I’d definitely like to hear more about that.” She also later tweeted sentiments along that line. Well, Jac went off about Teresa wanting to talk to Danielle, and I didn’t understand why that made Jac SOOOO upset. Does anyone have an idea as to why that would make Jac go ballistic? I mean, who cares if Teresa talks to Danielle. Melissa going ballistic over it, I can understand. But Jac? What’s the big deal? I just have a sneaking suspicion that there’s a whole lot more to that story.” [I Need A Housewives' Detox Program, May 18, 2012, LynnNChicago]
“Melissa is going to lie and twist as usual. It looks to me like, next week, Jac is going to bully Teresa about wanting to talk to Danielle. I have a theory: Jac does not want Teresa to talk to Danielle because Danielle is going to give her the 411, not only on her communications with Melissa, but also the 411 on all the crap Jac talked when they were friends. I have a feeling Jac told Danielle all kinds of horrible things about Caroline, Dina and, most probably, Teresa! Jac is very threatened by Danielle, no matter how much she tries to make Danielle out to be a crazy woman. Danielle is crazy, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. She’s got dirt on Jac and the Lauritas and Manzos that comes STRAIGHT from Jac, IMO. I also think Jac feels a kinship with Melissa because they were both strippers and escorts who hooked up with men of means and created a false backstory with total denials of their true pasts. JMHO.” [I Need A Housewives' Detox Program, June 11, 2012, LynnNChicago]
“Why is Jacqueline involving herself and getting worked up over “Teresa going to jail” and all of this other stuff? If Teresa isn’t worried, I certainly wouldn’t waste my energy. Is this all because Teresa chooses to keep the legalities of her situation private? Oh yeah, I forgot. Jacqueline is a passive-aggressive shit-stirrer of a bored housewife who needs to stir the pot so that she can proclaim she’s in the middle and torn so that she can play the righteous wronged party all the time. She needs a reason to hate Teresa, and by golly she’s going to come up with one. All because Mama Manzo disapproves of Teresa and — since she got her ass handed to her by the ‘Fambly’ after she overplayed her shit-stirring hand with Danielle situation, who is a legit nutbar — now she has to fall in line, friendship be damned. I have yet to see anything done by Teresa to Jacqueline, besides telling her to mind her own business once or twice. Gosh that woman clearly needs something to do besides drink, Tweet, ignore her daughter and wait to fool around with Chris.” [Noire, June 10, 2010, TelevisionWithoutPity]
“So I just caught what Jacqueline said in the preview: ‘Melissa was talking to Danielle two years ago; you’re talking to her now; you’re a hypocrite.’ So it’s a problem for Teresa to hear from Danielle regarding Melissa and Joe’s attempts to get on the show, but Jacqueline can dismiss that as Teresa’s supposed friend and not understand her position of being hurt by that? That’s the horrible thing she did that is causing next week’s big blow up? Very interesting that this is making the cut. I’m surprised this is making it to air. Hearing this and reading Teresa’s personal blog is pretty enlightening. Seems like the others better be prepared to be under the microscope regarding their castings. They’ve skated on those nebulous facts the past 1 1/2 seasons in order to make it look like its just a matter of Teresa being jealous; seems like the smoke that’s been there is beginning to show signs of a fire.” [Noire, June 10, 2010, TelevisionWithoutPity]
The therapy storyline is Teresa’s brother’s rather clumsy ploy for more airtime.
How many times has Joe Gorga called, text or wrote a note to his sister since filming stopped? Zero times. During the off-season (no filming), he doesn’t bother calling his sister; he hasn’t reached out to her for nine months and counting. In fact, it seems the only time he reaches out to Teresa is when the cameras are rolling. Teresa does not need to go to therapy with Joey: it is all another set-up to make Teresa look like the bad guy. Even if the therapy were not done on camera, whatever is shared in those therapy sessions would somehow be twisted and used against her. Teresa’s relationship with her brother may be a lost cause: when a brother conspires with his wife and others to hurt his sister and constantly talks negatively about her, the sister should remove herself from their lives. Any brother who takes pleasure in a family member’s ordeals and trials, and goes along with his wife’s vendetta against his own sister, sucks big time.
Melissa to Richie, “Be sure to take Joe outside the house and tell him once again that he has to text Teresa, so he looks like the better person. Who cares if she’s at a wedding, do it!!!!!!”
Here’s how a therapy session between Joe Gorga and Teresa would go:
Joey= Doctor, my sister here holds to grudges and is tearing our relationship apart.
Teresa= Joey, that is not truth, you know why I am mad
J= I don’t know, tell me, why are you mad?
T= You know what you did Joey, but you know I can’t talk about it here in front of the therapist because there are cameras around.
J= See, you are garbage Teresa, garbage, you can’t even tell me why you are mad because there is no reason for you to be mad.
T= Joey, I have been hearing rumors and they all point to the same, but you know I can’t talk about it.
J= (blinking eyes) Doctor, I swear, here you see the root of all problems, my sister is just a f**ing b*tch, can you please tell her now that she is the crazy one and I am the Angel of God, then she will understand that I am always right.
Therapist = (with few hairs left) Teresa, what is this thing that is making you so mad but that you can’t talk about? Seems that you are hosting a lot of resentment, are you so mad that that is why you can’t talk about it?
T= No doctor. I can’t talk about it because it involves the production of the show I am taping right now.
Therapist= interesting
J= She is fibbing, she is jealous of my wife, that is all, she is jealous of me too.
T= Joey, please you know what you guys did, stop acting like it never happened.
J= Doctor, I swear she is just a lunatic, I don’t even know what she is talking about.
T= (with tears in her eyes) Joey are you going to deny that you sent an audition video with your wife promising to “take me down and expose me for the liar I am”?
J= What? What are you talking about. She is lying, she is lying, I swear.
T= Joey, I saw the audition tape and I have also seen the e-mails that your wife sent to Danielle (with her head down).
J= (blinking) The audition tape? C’mom Tre, you know that was a joke. As far as the e-mails, well, that was a test, Melissa was testing Danielle to see if she was a snitch and then she was going to give you that as proof to destroy Danielle. You know my wife loves you like if you were her sister.
T= Joey, please, do you think I am an idiot?
J= Doctor, see, there she is being unreasonable again, I have just given her the perfect explanation and she is still holding grudges. Teresa, why are you like this? You are destroying the family.
Therapist= Joey, did you actually send those tapes and your wife sent the e-mails?
J= Well, yes, but Teresa refused to make us part of the cast so we had to find our way in. She is a selfish sister, and that is the root of the problems. Could you please tell her that so we can get over with this session.
T= I can’t get over the pain of knowing that my own brother betrayed me like this and now he is acting like I should just forgive and forget that they plotted to destroy me.
J= That is enough! I have had enough! Here I am trying to make this work and you are hell bent in rehashing the past over some little petty BS. I am done.
J= (as exiting the stage – ahem – the doctor’s office) I want for the record to show that I tried, God knows I tried. You saw me sending her texts, and I wanted the therapy, so I am the good brother, the Angel of God, don’t you forget it.
“It is funny to me that they are all so interested in Teresa going to therapy with her brother, and my question would be: therapy for what? The damage done by the Gorgas/Wakiles and their betrayal is not something that can be worked out in therapy sessions (filmed); those are the kind of emotional wounds that would take years to recover. I, for one, am glad that they haven’t seen each other in many, many months… sometimes family is the most important thing, but for your own sanity, sometimes you just have to remove them from your life. I never judged Bethenny when she decided to cut ties with her mom; she said the relationship was too toxic, and I believed her… some relationships are just not meant to be, and I think Teresa and her brother maybe are just not meant to be. No hard feelings, just move on; hopefully one of them will not be there next season, so they can ignore each other properly.” – Cartwheels, June 11, 2012, LynnNChicago
“I do not know how you can say that that ‘there is no doubt about how fully committed Joey was to reconciling with Teresa’ when he is the one bringing ‘Private Conversations’ that he and Teresa had months ago just to bring up Drama and make Teresa look bad. How can any brother do that to their own sister? I may not know alot as to what goes on with all of you in your private lives but that is wrong..Also its all over about the view and how Teresa wanted a segment to herself because she thought Melissa would attach her …well yea, can I just say “Reunion”? she had no idea how bad all of you would come at her…so what makes her think it would not happen again? I am not a Teresa fan, I am just watching a person being bullied by a bunch of family and friends. Teresa seems to be in Protective “mode” and she may say things she doesnt mean…believe me, Being bullied is not fun and I am always going to stand up for a person who is being bullied.. Kathy I don’t see this season ending well, and for that I am sorry for all of you… [Gigi33, June 11, 2012, Kathy's Bravo Blog]
“The scene with Joe and Rich was as fake as the professions of reconciliation you, Melissa and Joe constantly spew.” – 3BabyBoys, June 11, 2012, Kathy’s Bravo Blog
“And now you all want Teresa to go to therapy with her brothehr. Uh hu, we saw the last time Teresa said something in private to her brother, how you all used that for an entire season to bury her. Why would she go do that again? Imagine what she would want to say in therapy? That will give Melissa and Joe enough fodder to twist and turn for 3 seasons! If I was Teresa I wouldn’t go speak from my heart; Joe will use it again, duh! And your husband’s and Joe’s scene was so planned and orchestrated. I just can’t stand you guys, and if we have to sit through another year of you pushing a cookbook, and Melissa dropping another 2 songs, I will just stop watching. I want to see Teresa and her girls; you know, the family of yours you tried to just flatten so you could hock a cookie cookbook. Just repulsed by you all.” – CookieCutter, June 11, 2012, Kathy’s Bravo Blog
“Why, why, why would ANYONE suggest Teresa go to therapy with Joe? That’s just nuts. You have to be honest in therapy, and the last time Joe couldn’t WAIT to tell the CAMERAS what Teresa said in private so he could score one for their team! That hurt Teresa terribly, so now she’s supposed to go open up in front of the one man in her family, that isn’t her father, who sold her out for a reality show? That’s just CRAZY!!!!!!!” – InstFame, June 11, 2012, Kathy’s Bravo Blog
Bravo cut a segment, Kim D’s Passion Party, where Melissa’s scamming came to light:
Will Love Will Love @WillLoveInc
@littlegoobie200 @allabouttrh @realilanaangel I tweeted both fairly recently but no response. If they want a quote they know where I am.
Amber Whitmire @littlegoobie200
@WillLoveInc spill it Will! What happened? @AllAboutTRH interview time! Or @realilanaangel !
Melody Martrain @mbmartrain
@WillLoveInc @whoopibella @wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk I’m sure they will twist it
11 Jun
Will Love Will Love @WillLoveInc
@mbmartrain @whoopibella @wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk I have a feeling you won’t see it at all – at least not the juicy stuff.
1:47 PM – 11 Jun 12
Will Love @WillLoveInc
@mbmartrain @whoopibella @wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk Although they may have edited it to air later on in S4 only to twist it…
Will Love @WillLoveInc
@mbmartrain @whoopibella @wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk Whats2Spill?Look at my past tweets.I hinted A LOT.Blogs should ask. #Juicy
Will Love @WillLoveInc
@BravoAndy Question: Will @BravoTV air Kim D’s Passion Party, which looks like it was cut out to give a certain cast member the good edit!?
Will Love @WillLoveInc
@wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk No, that was the fashion show. This was an adult toy party held at Kim D’s house the same week as SP
Will Love @WillLoveInc
@wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk No, that was the fashion show. This was an adult toy party held at Kim D’s house the same week as SP
Will Love @WillLoveInc
@CLVPotpourri @johnnythegrk @lisaslying “Allegedly” not paying workers and the like. It was brought up at the Passion Party. All wives came.
C’estLaVie Potpourri @CLVPotpourri
@WillLoveInc @johnnythegrk @lisaslying wwwwooowww. What lie did Mel get caught up in at the party?
Will Love @WillLoveInc
@CLVPotpourri @johnnythegrk It was filmed the same week as the solstice party and it was supposed to be shown either before or after the SP.
C’estLaVie Potpourri @CLVPotpourri
@JohnnyTheGrk @WillLoveInc what happened at the party?!?! How do we know producers cut it?
John Karagiorgis (@JohnnyTheGrk)
6/10/12 10:37 PM
RT “@WillLoveInc: WOW! I can’t…I can believe the #RHONJ producers cut out @KimDPosche’s passion party where M’s scamming came to light.”
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@BravoAndy Question: Will @BravoTV air Kim D’s Passion Party, which looks like it was cut out to give a certain cast member the good edit!?
Here’s some more about Danielle and Teresa from Jacqueline’s Bravo blogs:
The [In Touch] article with the dog seemed a little obvious that she had a lot to do with what was written inside. These were all things that Teresa complained to me about, so that is why it was so obvious to me. Teresa said, “This is business.” (“Business” = Money Earned) The article coincidently listed all the people she disliked the most. Just like she did with her book, she used her family and friends to make money doing her “business.”
If I looked perplexed when Teresa told me about her “renewal of vows” cover to put to rest all of the rumors she started about herself in her previous covers, it’s because I was. She knew I was asked to do the same thing, and I was told it would be made into a big deal by the tabloids. I turned it down. It’s just not me. I’m a simple girl. However, I was surprised that Teresa waited until we were on camera to tell me that SHE was going to do it. I think she wanted to hurry up and do a cover before I changed my mind and out shined her or something. I think that is why she went so over the top with her renewal picture. Her cover would come out before mine because they wanted mine to come during Season 4. It was just bizarre to me and the whole concept was so fake. (Just like the prop dog idea in the last article.)
What did she think the “friends and family bullying” article would be about? I couldn’t figure out why she would want to do that. I will say it again, it’s one thing to put out articles about yourself, but when she would slip things in about her friends and family, that was crossing the line. I was thinking to myself, “I wish she would just tell them once and for all how she really felt instead of sending messages in magazines. Maybe then the healing could begin and she could let go of all of her resentment, forgive, and move forward.” Talk about passive aggressive!
I guess I would have respected her more if instead of disregarding these articles and pretending they didn’t exist, that she addressed her friends and family with some respect and apologized for the things printed and explain how they ended up in there. Why would she continue to do these covers knowing that they were mostly negative about her and her family? She allowed it.
I started seeing a different side to Teresa that I didn’t respect. She was doing and saying some pretty ugly things. I really wanted my friend back. I missed her. I needed her. I wanted the fun loving Teresa that wasn’t self-absorbed or consumed with “keeping up with the Gorgas” and trying to surpass them at all costs. I wanted her to understand how her words and actions were affecting the people and relationships in her life that should matter the most to her. I wanted her to learn how to view things from another person’s perspective. I wanted her to know that I would still love with all of her faults, but I just wanted her to be real with me.
I knew at this point she was pulling away from me more and more. I understood the things that she was saying behind my back and where it was coming from, so I was trying not to get mad at her for that, even though it did upset me. She didn’t understand that I was trying to help her.
7. I found it hypocritical that Teresa mentioned I was wishy-washy and wouldn’t commit to picking a side when Danielle was fighting with my family. Forgive me for being my own person and waiting to judge people from my own experiences with them. Did Teresa forget that she herself didn’t pick a side either? She also continued to be Danielle’s friend along with me even while her best friend, Dina, disliked her until Danielle did something personally to her. Teresa also tried saying hello, just to be friendly, to Danielle at the Posche fashion show at a time when Dina and I were both having issues with Danielle. I never faulted her for that. My battle with Danielle was my own to deal with. Teresa also remains friendly with Kim D. who clearly has an issue with her sister-in-law Melissa. But that is all OK for Teresa to befriend who she wants. Is that how she defines loyalty? It upsets me, and I feel it’s unfair that I am expected to follow Teresa’s rules that she doesn’t even apply to herself.
Finally, I felt I needed to address Teresa’s blog from last week, because I always held back on commenting on them before. I have to admit, I’m a little disappointed. What has gotten into you?
I want to address your paragraph about Caroline and me where you stated, “Caroline and Jacqueline telling me that Danielle hurt their families was enough for me to support them. I didn’t need proof. I didn’t need to invite Danielle to my parties to “see for myself.” I trusted my friends and had their back.” If I remember correctly, there is a contradiction to what you stated. When your friends, to whom you claim loyalty, strongly disliked a “certain somebody” you continued to still hang out with that “certain somebody” and gave them a chance (just like I did) until YOU couldn’t take her ways anymore.
I respected you for being your own person. You even went as far as to invite that “certain somebody” to your dinner party along with a couple of your friends, who you knew couldn’t even “stomach the sight of her,” because you are nice like that. YOU decided you had enough of that “certain somebody” having a past and present that you unapproved of, telling you to pay attention, spreading rumors about your husband and your house being in foreclosure, comparing you to a wild animal, and the most obvious and infuriating for you, bringing up Melissa’s name at the reunion show and claiming that you didn’t acknowledge your nephew. It was those moments concerning YOU that prompted you to flip a table, chase “a certain somebody” through a fashion show, and throw Andy Cohen like a rag doll. Be honest, was that about having your friends’ back, or did she insult YOU?
PLEASE DON’T PRETEND that you acted out for your friends by being a loyal soldier. You even went out of your way to say “hello” to a “certain someone” that had been harassing my daughter, threatening and spreading horrible lies about me and my family at the Posche Fashion show. Were you being a loyal soldier then or were you being your own person, which I respected and never got mad at for all the chaos you caused? I would NEVER expect you to dislike somebody, because I do or fight my battles FOR me. If you’re going to fight them WITH me because you are feeling the same way, then that is a BONUS! LOL!
Your definition of “loyalty” doesn’t always match your actions. You are your own person aren’t you? I feel like you should take responsibility for your own choices, actions, and admit to forming your own opinions that had nothing to do with your “loyalty” to your friends! You are NOT that weak of a person. I was so grateful to you when my sister-in-law, whom you had been friends with years before, and I were feuding that you didn’t choose a side. You allowed our friendship to grow. That showed me that you were a good person and had a mind of your own, but in YOUR definition of a “loyal” friend, I guess you contradicted yourself, and you weren’t that loyal yourself. Please don’t make it sound like every action you took against Danielle was for us and say that she never did anything to you, when clearly she did. The truth is you had your own issues with her. That’s all I’m trying to say. I just wanted to clear that up.
