The Real Housewives of New Jersey<\/em> Season 13 Reunion special<\/a> started with a lot of boiling anger.<\/p>\nFor parts of this season, Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga at least went through the motions of polite loathing.<\/p>\n
At the Reunion, they were glaring daggers at each other. If they\u2019d had them on hand, they might have been throwing them.<\/p>\n
Then, Teresa came out and said it \u2014 accusing Melissa of being behind her incarceration.<\/p>\n<\/noscript>Even Part 1 of the The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 13 Reunion special became heated as Melissa Gorga and Teresa Giudice traded barbs. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nA while before Teresa leveled this stunning and fairly serious accusation, they were on another contentious topic.<\/p>\n
(We say \u201cfairly serious\u201d because even in the unlikely event that Melissa and Joe Gorga called up authorities to report Teresa and her ex-husband for fraud \u2026 not everyone would see them as the bad guys)<\/p>\n
This time, Tre and Melissa were clashing about younger family.<\/p>\nTeresa Giudice doned a gold gown that evoked the general imagery of a wedding dress to the Season 13 RHONJ Reunion special. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAfter Teresa defended accusing Melissa\u2019s daughter of not supporting her own children, Melissa was unhappy.<\/p>\n
At that point, Teresa claimed that she wasn\u2019t the one who\u2019d dragged the nieces into it.<\/p>\n
She said that Melissa had done so.<\/p>\nGesturing with her hands and her nails, Melissa Gorga insisted that she has never dragged her nieces into this mess. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhoa, whoa, whoa!<\/p>\n
Melissa emphasized that she loves her nieces and, even if they seem to dislike her pretty openly, she never spoke ill of them.<\/p>\n
So Teresa brought up Melissa\u2019s podcast, Melissa Gorga On Display<\/em>, where the Gorgas discussed how they had once been there for their nieces when Teresa could not be.<\/p>\nThe RHONJ Season 13 Reunion special played a brief excerpt of Melissa Gorga\u2019s podcast, \u201cMelissa Gorga On Display,\u201d in which she and her husband referred to how they were there for their nieces. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Reunion then played a short burst of audio, discussing \u201cputting food on the table\u201d for Teresa\u2019s kids when she was unable to.<\/p>\n
Teresa objected to this.<\/p>\n
So Melissa then explained what they meant.<\/p>\nOn the RHONJ Season 13 Reunion special in 2023, Melissa Gorga explained things while host Andy Cohen listened. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cPutting food on the table\u201d is not always a literal statement.<\/p>\n
She highlighted ways that she and her husband had helped their four nieces, including Joe taking Gia to college.<\/p>\n
Melissa reminded Teresa that, at the time, they were cool.<\/p>\nTeresa Giudice had several firm points to make during the Season 13 Reunion of RHONJ. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nGesturing with her Reunion Talons, Teresa claimed that she was the one who \u201cmade it\u201d cool when she got out of prison.<\/p>\n
This spawned another heated debate.<\/p>\n
They argued over how often Joe visited Teresa in prison, whether Teresa herself caused this.<\/p>\nPoor Andy Cohen had to sit and weather the chaos as Melissa Gorga and Teresa Giudice clashed over prison visitation logs from a decade ago. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe thing is that the whole prison visitation thing isn\u2019t interesting to anyone but them.<\/p>\n
In fact, as the conflict between the two of them went on, some of their castmates were openly bored.<\/p>\n
We saw Dolores Catania wish that she were somewhere else. Danielle Cabral quietly confided in her that she was having fantasies about Shake Shack.<\/p>\nBravo put up a shady splitscreen to highlight the animosity as Melissa Gorga and Teresa Giudice tried to talk over each other at the Season 13 Reunion. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nYes, there was a time when they both had each other\u2019s back.<\/p>\n
Now, they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
There are many interesting, engaging parts of their feud. But this part isn\u2019t it. It\u2019s not even entertaining, and the words that they were yelling at each other stopped being interesting.<\/p>\nAs the RHONJ Season 13 Reunion highlighted, Jennifer Aydin partied with Laura \u2014 which was obviously intentional. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWe swear that it was tangentially related, but Jennifer Aydin had a watch party for the Season 13 premiere.<\/p>\n
Laura, the ex-bestie of Margaret Josephs, attended.<\/p>\n
Jennifer was not subtle about having invited Laura purely to be shady about it. <\/p>\nAs always, Margaret Josephs has a way with words. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAnd Margaret, as always, was very direct about expressing her feelings.<\/p>\n
(Seriously, what would this show be without Margaret?)<\/p>\n
When things moved back to Teresa and Melissa, Teresa accused Melissa of only being interesting in the capacity of their feud.<\/p>\nTeresa Giudice began to list all of her storylines that do not involve her sister-in-law or brother, including having a child and going to prison. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhen Melissa hit back with the same accusation, Teresa began to list things that she had done.<\/p>\n
She listed having a child on the show. She listed getting married on the show.<\/p>\n
And Teresa also listed having gone to prison. Which \u2026 was an odd boast.<\/p>\nMelissa Gorga used sarcastic applause to indicate that she\u2019s not sure that \u201cI went to prison on the show\u201d is the flex that her sister-in-law imagines. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTeresa\u2019s list invited some deeply sarcastic clapping from Melissa.<\/p>\n
She was highlighting that Teresa seemed to be bragging about her erstwhile incarceration.<\/p>\n
But speaking of her time behind bars. \u2026<\/p>\nTeresa Giudice asked the Reunion host if he would like to take a walk down memory lane. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nEager to continue to rehash the past, Teresa doubles down.<\/p>\n
Remember, the Reunion is supposed to focus on Season 13.<\/p>\n
But in Teresa\u2019s mind, this is just part of a war that she\u2019s been waging for a very long time.<\/p>\nViewers could easily see the suffering of Andy Cohen as he became collateral damage in a family feud on the Season 13 Reunion of RHONJ. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMeanwhile, poor Andy was just miserable.<\/p>\n
The editors really had a lot of fun with this one, showing a lot of off-topic whispered lines and zooming in on Andy\u2019s weary expressions.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve seen more formal Reunions. This was not one \u2014 not in the editing booth, anyway.<\/p>\nAt this point in the Season 13 Reunion, Teresa Giudice claimed that an old enemy was now supplying her with information. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThen, Teresa began claiming that she knows that Teresa and Joe allegedly did behind her back.<\/p>\n
Her source? Her old enemy, Jacqueline Laurita.<\/p>\n
That absurdity stirred Andy out of his would-be slumber.<\/p>\nAndy Cohen and others expressed their dismay that Teresa Giudice would trust an old enemy over her own family. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHe found it as ridiculous as the rest of us that Teresa would trust Jacqueline \u2026 at all.<\/p>\n
(Remember, there was a time when Teresa and Melissa were getting along very well. At that time, Jacqueline was their foe)<\/p>\n
As Teresa began to hurl accusations, Melissa and Margaret noted that this was just like when Teresa accused Carolina Manzo of putting her behind bars.<\/p>\nTeresa Giudice accused her own sister-in-law of putting her behind bars during the The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 13 Reunion special. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBut Teresa said that she would now like to retract that allegation.<\/p>\n
Instead, she has a new suspect.<\/p>\n
Teresa claimed that Melissa was the one who put her behind bars. And she\u2019s apparently taking Jacqueline\u2019s word on that.<\/p>\nRachel Fuda responded to her first Reunion with some spectacular reactions. (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhile Rachel Fuda gasped, Margaret simply showed her exasperation. <\/p>\n
We\u2019ll see more of this mess at the Reunion Part 2.<\/p>\n
For now, we\u2019re left with the emotional aftermath of that accusation. A lot <\/em>of fans remain divided between Team Melissa and Team Teresa.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As promised, the The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 13 Reunion special started with a lot of boiling anger. For parts of this season, Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga at least went through the motions of polite loathing. At the Reunion, they were glaring daggers at each other. If they\u2019d had them on hand, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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