Melissa Gorga, Jennifer Aydin, and Margaret Josephs are sharing their thoughts on Jackie Goldschneider bringing up Gia Giudice into her heated fight with Teresa Giudice during the Season 11 premiere episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
If you recall, during the Wednesday, February 17, premiere, Teresa alleged that Jackie’s husband, Evan Goldschneider, was unfaithful to her with someone at his gym. After Goldschneider learned that Giudice was making these claims about Evan at his birthday party, Jackie asked Teresa to admit that she was lying.
Things between the two got more intense and heated when Jackie compared the cheating claims about Evan to rumors that Teresa’s eldest daughter, Gia Giudice, “snorts coke in the bathroom” at parties. Teresa stormed off and called Goldschneider the ‘c-word’ multiple times.
So how does the rest of the cast feel about Jackie dragging Gia into her fight with Teresa?
“First of all, she didn’t even say like, ‘How would you feel if I had said [this about Gia]?’ It wasn’t even articulated in that way. It was a statement,” Jennifer told Us Weekly. “And even though I know what her intention was, saying that about someone’s child —an innocent child that really has nothing to do with this No. 1 — [and] No. 2, let’s not forget that Jackie came for Teresa’s husband on more than one occasion.”
“So, you can go for her husband, but she can’t come for yours?” Jennifer said. “She’s come for Teresa on more than one occasion.”
Jennifer was referring to Jackie’s past comments about how Teresa’s now-ex-husband, Joe Giudice, wouldn’t have gone to jail if she could “control” him.
Melissa Gorga, who is Gia’s aunt said, “I think that it was terrible to bring in [Gia]. It’s one thing when we’re talking about us, it’s another thing when we bring kids in,” Melissa told Us Weekly. “I never want to bring [up] a child — even if they’re 18, whatever, however old they are. I mean, I know Gia is 20 now. It doesn’t matter. All of our kids to me are always off-limits.”
As far as Margaret Josephs, she said, “I think when anybody brings up your child, you automatically go on autopilot. I understand why [Jackie] was just like, ‘Who else was I going to bring up?’ … Obviously, in hindsight, it wasn’t the best analogy and you can’t really bring up people’s children. Jackie’s an attorney and she argues like an attorney and it just went South.”
Meanwhile, Dorinda Medley took to Twitter to share her thoughts on the topic. The former Real Housewives of New York City star came to Giudice’s defense and slammed Goldschneider.
Giudice responded back by telling Medley, “Thank you [Dorinda Medley] ❤️❤️”
Goldschneider notes that she only used Gia as an analogy. “I wasn’t starting a rumor about Gia. I was giving an analogy,” Jackie told Us Weekly. “I think that like almost everyone will say that that’s an analogy and the truth is that there’s no one else in Teresa’s life that I can make her understand. When you say something about someone you love, whether or not it’s true, it hurts, you know? So, I don’t regret that because if I was saying something nasty about Gia, then I would regret it. But I was giving an analogy, which it was pretty clear to almost everyone.”
“When it comes to my family, I will never be OK with somebody trying to come between us. So, I’ll never have a thick skin when it comes to my family,” she added. “The fact that anybody could think that you could do something that potentially destroys a family with four young children, and then just be like, ‘Who cares’ to me? There’s no show I could be on long enough that that would ever happen.”
After the episode aired, Gia reposted a lengthy statement from her mother’s business manager after Jackie dragged her into her fight with Teresa.
“Gia is a wonderful, smart, strong and beautiful human being and what was done to her tonight was wrong on so many levels. For a grown ass ‘I’m so so smart I’m lawyer’ woman to bring Gia’s name into an argument & place an accusation with such a weighted consequence is inconceivable,” Appian Entertainment’s Karianne Fischbach wrote on Wednesday, February 17. “I cannot fathom what would [possess] someone to create a false narrative that could have severe consequences for the innocent party involved, a 19-year-old at the time who was in no way involved in anything. what the cast members choose to do to each other is the nature of the reality TV beast, this was to [SIC] far.”
The statement ended with, “I hope apologies are made & I hope family sticks together on this one. I’d have a hard time support friend who did that to my niece, #justsayin.”
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