While Dorinda Medley previously showed her support to Teresa Giudice in her Real Housewives of New Jersey feud with cast member Jackie Goldschneider, former Real Housewives of New York City friend Elyse Slaine reveals she is Team Jackie while throwing shade at Giudice.
During a recent interview, Slaine was asked to share her thoughts on the current drama between Giudice and Goldschneider.
“I thought Teresa was disgusting, the way she behaved at Jackie’s birthday party for her husband,” Elyse said during an Instagram Live interview on The Domenick Nati Show, according to a report by Reality Tea.
Slaine revealed that she has never seen the series before. She decided to watch the season 11 premiere because she is friends with Jackie.
Elyse added, “I think everyone except Jackie scares me on that show.”
As previously reported, Teresa alleged that Jackie’s husband, Evan Goldschneider, was unfaithful to her with someone at his gym during the Wednesday, February 17, premiere. 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.
Medley took to Twitter to slam the lawyer and mother-of-four over the analogy she made about Gia. Medley tweeted, “[Jackie is] is the lowest of the lowest. [Teresa Giudice] you are a survivor and I love you! #greatestmom #❤️ #ilovegia”
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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