Real Housewives Of New Jersey: Teresa and Joe Giudice argue over marriage prenup in front of teen daughter Gia
Teresa and Joe Giudice revealed they never wanted to get married on Wednesday’s explosive episode of The Real Housewives Of New Jersey.
Joe, 47, called Teresa, also 47, while she was shopping for a prom dress with their daughter Gia, 18, a rite of passage excursion that started out on an upbeat note.
But within seconds, Gia’s parents began arguing, with Joe especially irritable after having spent months in an ICE detention center.
Dress shopping: Teresa and Joe Giudice bitterly argued over the phone in front of their daughter Gia while she shopped for a prom dress on Wednesday’s episode of RHONJ
As he awaited deportation to Italy, he was slowly losing his mind in detention, Gia said.
Joe nagged Teresa about the money she spent shopping, and she reminded him that she wasn’t spending his money, and that he’d never had much anyway.
‘It’s not like I was marrying a friggin’ millionaire,’ Teresa pointed out. ‘I was marrying nothing.’
The week before they married, he’d made her sign a prenup, she recalled in a confessional before revealing that she almost walked out on their wedding.
Married nothing: The 47-year-old reality star reminded Joe that she married into ‘nothing’
Tender moment: Joe started out telling Gia that he wished he could be there with her
‘I just feel like when you love someone, you don’t do that,’ Teresa reflected. ‘I wasn’t going to go through with it, but being Italian, you know, I have old-school parents, that’s an embarrassing thing to call off a wedding.’
‘I didn’t even read it,’ she admitted. ‘I just said, ”I want you to put one thing in there: ”If you ever cheat, prenup goes void”.’
‘Oh my God, you and your stupidity,’ Joe moaned over the phone. ‘You know what? You want me to say it now? Alright, you and this stupid prenup that you keep bringing up? I didn’t want to get married, alright?’
Marriage talk: Teresa told Joe that she considered calling off their wedding and he countered that he didn’t want to get married
Phone fight: Gia held the phone while her parents argued in front of her
‘Like, why are you saying such stupid s***?’ Gia exploded on her mom. ‘That’s your personal business with my father, so enough.’
Later in the episode, entitled Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, Teresa also found herself in the middle of a bad fight between her friends.
At a special event, she was the only castmate to defend Danielle Staub, 57, when her pals attacked the woman for allegedly taking advantage of her ex-husband, whom she’d once accused of abuse.
Raised voice: The fighting escalated until Gia told her mother to maintain her personal business
Tough time: Teresa revealed that she and Joe had been arguing frequently
Margaret Josephs, 52, thought Danielle was trying to swindle her ex, but Teresa disagreed.
Danielle and Margaret squared off and quickly hurled insults at each other.
Margaret grew so incensed that she poured a bottle of water on Danielle, and Danielle responded by violently yanking Margaret’s head back.
Water pour: Margaret Josephs later poured water on Danielle Staub
Hair pull: Danielle retaliated by yanking on Margaret’s hair
As the episode opened, Melissa Gorga, 40, reflected on the situation in which her sister-in-law Teresa recently found herself in with Joe’s appeal being denied.
She had just attended her Teresa’s Easter dinner, at which she’d observed the woman’s family, and she’d seen how the situation with Joe affected her four girls.
Teresa’s father Giacinto Gorga, 76, also had been hospitalized with pneumonia after the meal.
Family talk: Melissa Gorga, 40, reflected on the situation in which her sister-in-law Teresa recently found herself in with Joe’s appeal being denied
Teresa, she knew, needed some fun, and Melissa agreed to attend an event that Teresa’s pal Steven Dann was throwing for the cast at his boutique.
Melissa also told her three kids she was thinking about having children again.
‘I am getting sad that you guys are all getting big on me,’ she explained. ‘Now that I’m 40, I’m like, having a little freak attack, because I kinda want more of you.’
More children: Joe Gorga and Melissa told their three children that they were considering having another child
Teresa invited Danielle to the event when they met for drinks at Danielle’s house, and vowed to support her against any attack by Margaret.
Both Danielle and her ex, Marty Caffrey, firmly believed that Margaret had stirred up trouble that ultimately led to their divorce.
Margaret later spread rumors about Danielle as she dined with Melissa and castmate Jackie Goldschneider, 43.
Back together: Danielle and Marty Caffrey were living together after their nasty divorce
Event invite: Teresa while visiting Danielle at her house with Marty invited her to the event hosted by Steven Dann
She wondered whether Teresa and Danielle were swimming in the ‘lady pond’ together.
‘She told me that Danielle massaged her,’ Margaret pointed out, as Melissa admitted: ‘Listen, I’m not a stranger of the lady pond. I like the lady pond. You know, once in college.’
As Teresa prepared for the Steven Dann event, she took Gia shopping for her prom dress.
Lady pond: Margaret wondered whether Teresa and Danielle were swimming in the ‘lady pond’ together
‘It’s definitely hard that my father is missing all these milestones in my life,’ Gia said.
‘High school is where you become the person you are, and it kills me that he’s missed me becoming the person I am.’
Joe, who was born in Italy, had never obtained American citizenship, and was stuck in ICE detention since his release from prison on a fraud conviction.
Rite of passage: Gia engaged in the rite of passage of getting a prom dress with her mother
He had become resigned to his eventual deportation back to Italy, and grown depressed.
Joe called as Gia was trying on dresses, saying: ‘Sweetheart, I wish was there with you.’
He then asked Teresa how much prom dresses cost these days, and turned his venom on her, saying: ‘You got nothing to do. All you do is go shopping and you spend money.’
‘Your mother is like Robin Hood,’ he cracked to his daughter. ‘She takes from her husband and spends it all on the stores.’
Money gibes: Joe cracked to Gia that his mother was ‘like Robin Hood’ who ‘takes from her husband and spends it all on the stores’
‘Yeah, I’m not taking from my husband, though,’ Teresa snapped. ‘I’m working and busting my a**.’
‘Trust me, you took plenty from your husband,’ Joe sniped, as Teresa replied, ‘Oh my god.’
‘Alright, you’re giving me headaches,’ Gia told her dad, throwing the phone to Teresa and heading to the dressing room. ‘Goodbye. Your conversations are ridiculous.’
Took plenty: Gia listened as the argument continued to escalate
Joe tried to explain his point of view to Teresa, offering: ‘You’re saying things that are upsetting me, like, ‘Oh, I ain’t spending your money.’ Yeah, I’m locked up in here. Of course you’re not taking any money.’
He grew angry then, adding: ‘The money that you spend in nails and hair, you’ll be able to retire on it.’
‘Joe’s losing his mind in ICE,’ Teresa noted privately. ‘He calls constantly, and every phone call turns into a fight.’
Losing it: The teenager noted that her father was losing his mind while in ICE detention
‘I don’t want to hear it Joe,’ she told him. ‘You already pissed me off. You haven’t been here for three years, so how am I spending your money? I’m working on my own, busting my a**, taking care of our four daughters.’
Gia interrupted, saying: ‘He was busting your chops about the beginning. Yes, you probably did spend his money. Now you make your own money, so just both of you shut up.’
‘Gia, lower your voice,’ Teresa said.
Nasty call: Joe called out Teresa’s stupidity during their nasty fight
‘No,’ Gia insisted, adding in a confessional that she wished Teresa would just let Joe unleash, as he was ‘fighting for his life’ in detention.
Teresa kept going, telling Joe: ‘You didn’t leave me with millions in the bank. You left me with nothing, and I paid off all the debt, taking care of our four daughters. Doing it all by myself. And I’m spending a lot of our money on lawyers.’
‘Mom,’ Gia pleaded, her eyes wide. ‘This is getting so ridiculous now.’
Too much: Gia grew weary of hearing her parents argue
‘I could also just pick up and leave,’ Joe vented, telling Gia that Teresa liked to aggravate him.
Teresa told Joe she deserved to hear how ‘amazing’ she had been, saying, ‘That’s the s*** that I wanna hear.’
The two of them then dickered over the fact that they had never really wanted to marry.
Wrong words: Teresa told Joe that she would instead like to hear how ‘amazing’ she’s doing raising their four daughters by herself
At the boutique event, Teresa and Danielle disparaged Margaret while drinking wine.
Margaret privately noted, ‘I’d rather clip my toenails with a Cuisinart than be in the same room with Danielle. But for the sake of Teresa, I’m not going to cause any conflict.’
She approached Teresa to say hello, but Teresa barely seemed to acknowledge her.
Good one: Margaret in a confessional quipped: I’d rather clip my toenails with a Cuisinart than be in the same room with Danielle. But for the sake of Teresa, I’m not going to cause any conflict’
‘I’ve been slowly seeing who Margaret really is,’ Teresa said in her confessional. ‘And I don’t like it.’
Lines were drawn, with Teresa and Danielle on one side, and the rest of the cast on the other.
Jackie joked with her castmates about the number ’69’ on her purse, saying she didn’t like that sexual position, and ‘Jewish girls don’t give blowjobs.’
Cracking up: Jackie Goldschneider laughed while talking about sex with Margaret
‘My husband lives on blowjobs,’ Jennifer Aydin, 42, admitted.
Jackie said her husband had never ‘gone down’ on her, either, adding, ‘I don’t like it.’
Talk turned to Danielle’s sex tape, which the women’s husbands had seen, with one woman saying, ‘Her puss has claws and teeth.’
Sex tape: Talk turned to Danielle’s sex tape, which the women’s husbands had seen, with one woman saying, ‘Her puss has claws and teeth’
Danielle asked Teresa to get their ‘mean-girl behavior’ to stop, and called Margaret out, saying: ‘What’s your problem, Trout-Mouth?’
‘I don’t have any problem with you,’ Margaret said. ‘I want nothing to do with you.’
Teresa waded into the fray, defending Danielle, which irritated Dolores Catania, 49.
The showdown: Teresa and Danielle confronted the women over their ‘mean-girl behavior’
‘How at this point in our lives… with everything she’s been through in her marriage… you still can’t pick out a liar, Teresa?’ she asked in her confessional. ‘What the f*** is wrong with you?’
Margaret and Danielle began to sling barbs at one another, with Danielle accusing Margaret of cheating on her ex-husband, and Margaret alleging that Danielle was having sex with Marty to keep the title to their house.
‘Get out of my f***ing face!’ Danielle screamed as Margaret closed the space between them.
Lie detector: Dolores Catania wondered Teresa ‘with everything she’s been through in her marriage’ still could not pick out a liar
‘She’s not worth it,’ Jackie warned Margaret. ‘She’s a piece of s***.’
‘She’s been dragged and ridden hard,’ Margaret declared to Teresa about her friend, to which Danielle replied, ‘And so have your f***ing titties. You should get ’em done.’
In response, Margaret poured her drink over Danielle’s head.
Wet hair: Margaret poured water on Danielle after she finally struck a nerve
Soaking wet: Danielle was soaking wet after Margaret doused her
‘This is a store!’ Teresa implored, as Danielle emptied the contents of Margaret’s purse into a $675 canister as boutique owner Steven stared in shock.
‘Watch your back, b****!,’ Danielle yelled. ‘You started it, I’ll f***ing finish it. Don’t you ever come for me again, you f***ing whore.’
‘Go with your white f***ing ponytail,’ she then jabbed at Margaret. ‘You can’t even bleach it anymore, your hair’s so f***ing broken.’
Boutique owner: Steven Dann looked shocked as the women argued
Acting out: Danielle emptied the contents of Margaret’s purse into a $675 canister
Duly warned: Margaret was warned by Danielle to watch her back
As she walked out, she yanked on it hard, pulling Margaret down.
‘I just can’t help myself anymore,’ Danielle crowed nastily. ‘I just can’t.’
The episode ended with a To Be Continued sign as Margaret tried to keep her balance as Danielle pulled on her hair.
The Real Housewives Of New Jersey will return next week on Bravo.
No control: Danielle walked around saying she couldn’t help herself before attacking Margaret
Ponytail pull: Margaret was yanked backward as Danielle grabbed her ponytail
Going down: Danielle pulled Margaret’s hair as she tried to regain her balance
Too much: Melissa looked on with wide eyes as the drama unfolded
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