Jacqueline Laurita opened up concerning the interior workings of manufacturing on The Actual Housewives of New Jersey whereas showing on a podcast final week.
As she admitted the present has gotten “poisonous,” shared who she believes ought to return for season 15, and defined why she believes Teresa Giudice, 52, and Kathy Wakile, 58, haven’t but reconciled, Jacqueline, 54, seemed again on Melissa Gorga‘s textual content leak, revealed her greatest remorse, and answered a query about how concerned Andy Cohen, 56, is with filming.
“He’s not concerned in any respect,” Jacqueline shared on the September 10 episode of the AllAboutTRH podcast.
That mentioned, Jacqueline famous that folks can attain out to manufacturing, and vice versa.
“He’ll become involved when the producers can’t deal with you. Or if somebody’s actually having a difficulty, they will attain out to him … I keep in mind I received a name one time as a result of I wasn’t doing what they needed me to do and I feel it was when Nick was regressing and so they needed Nick to do a playdate with Audriana,” she recalled of an incident along with her son, who has since been recognized with autism. “He was doing humorous issues on digicam that I used to be attempting to cover and I didn’t really feel snug … I yelled at everybody. I had all of the executives on the cellphone, Andy, I used to be telling them to go f*ck themselves. I used to be so mad.”
Though Jacqueline hasn’t been seen on the collection since its seventh season, she was a scorching matter on the season 13 reunion, when Melissa, 45, leaked a textual content she despatched to Jackie Goldschneider, 47. As followers will recall, Jacqueline had spoken negatively about Teresa within the message, calling her a “low life trash bucket.” Nevertheless, trying again on the incident, Jacqueline mentioned she thought it was “humorous” because it didn’t truly impression her friendship with Teresa.
“I assumed the textual content was humorous as a result of I assumed it was irrelevant as a result of these texts have been written two years previous to Teresa and I making up, once we hated one another, so I didn’t get the significance of it,” she defined. “On the time, I used to be at all times saying issues publicly, privately, on Instagram, on my podcast, I used to be saying stuff like that as a result of we didn’t like one another.”
“Melissa lied and mentioned they have been newer however there was a timestamp on them from two years previous to my making up with Teresa,” Jacqueline continued. “I’m like, ‘What’s your level? Why are you citing a textual content once we didn’t like one another? You’ve texts like that to me too.’”
After confirming that Teresa “didn’t care” concerning the textual content message, Jacqueline shared what occurred when she confronted Melissa about it.
“I’m like, ‘Why would you try this? I’m simply questioning why you’d try this. Fortunately it didn’t trigger an issue with Teresa and I however I simply don’t perceive what was your goal in doing that,’” she revealed. “After which she tried to behave like in writing, I don’t know if she was sitting or no matter, she was like, ‘You’re the one which unsolicitedly texted me.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh actually? Did you neglect you have been texting and calling me?’ I feel she didn’t notice I’m the kind of particular person to avoid wasting my textual content messages so I began sending her textual content messages the place she was speaking about Teresa, [Dolores Catania], and no matter, and her saying she was calling me and all these items. And her response was like, ‘Go away me alone.’ [So] I simply left her alone cuz I don’t care. No matter she was attempting to do didn’t work.”
Additionally, trying again at her time on the present, Jacqueline mentioned her greatest remorse was “trusting the unsuitable individuals” and “taking issues so personally.”
“I ought to’ve stored it like among the different women do on the present: They arrive on, and so they entertain, after which they don’t carry it house. I feel I took the whole lot very personally … So I might critically get damage by issues that might occur and issues individuals would say and do. I took the whole lot to coronary heart once I ought to’ve handled it like a enterprise,” she reasoned.
Whereas Jacqueline mentioned RHONJ was “poisonous” when she was on it years in the past, she additionally mentioned she felt prefer it’s “gotten worse” within the years since.
“And now there’s the particular groups,” she famous. “We didn’t even get to see who Rachel Fuda was as a result of she spent the entire season being offended at Teresa and refused to movie along with her.
In accordance with Jacqueline, she believes Melissa and people near her have been attempting to “ice” Teresa out amid season 14.
“I feel what their plan was, ‘Let’s all stick collectively and ice Teresa out and present them how nice we’re over right here as a group so that you’ll eliminate Teresa.’ They have been doing that but it surely may backfire on them,” she warned. “I feel in the event that they have been to take away Teresa from the present, they actually couldn’t preserve anybody from the forged both. I feel they must rehire a wholly new forged.”
As producers reportedly put the collection on maintain till 2025, Jacqueline hopes Bravo realizes that Teresa deserves the title of longest-standing RHONJ housewife
“I feel she’s earned it. No one else deserves that thought, particularly not Melissa, along with her stale storylines,” Jacqueline said. “I don’t assume she deserves that title over Teresa. The present is centered round Teresa for the reason that starting, she’s at all times been the face of the present. She’s the community’s moneymaker. There’ll by no means be anybody else like Teresa. She’s one among a sort. She’s at all times energetic in her life, so she at all times brings new, genuine storylines to each season. She’s unpredictable, she’s reactive, and she or he exhibits many points of her persona and her struggles.”
After praising Teresa for all that she’s given to the present over time, Jacqueline mentioned she’d prefer to see some new faces on season 15.
“I might in all probability be seeking to forged new youthful faces with younger households, possibly somebody with an enormous following who already has skilled some fame or notoriety,” she shared. “I might clearly preserve Teresa and possibly I might preserve a few the brand new acquainted faces on the present like [Danielle Cabral] and Rachel as a result of I feel they’ve extra story to inform that we haven’t seen but and they are often humorous. I feel Dolores is an effective narrator and provides us good perception into the interior workings of the group and she or he has this means to stay impartial so I feel she’s good for the present at the very least in some capability, the place possibly her storyline isn’t as robust however the best way she will navigate the group and inform how the group thinks I feel retains her robust. And she or he’s very likable … after which possibly a sidebar the place Kathy and [Rosie Pierri] are available in to reconnect with Teresa. That is perhaps enjoyable to see.”
Of Teresa’s potential reconciliation with Kathy, Jacqueline mentioned it was one thing she’d prefer to see earlier than explaining Teresa’s hesitancy.
“I feel it’s actually onerous for Teresa to recover from her approaching the present and I feel she will get offended by the best way — [Richie Wakile]’s humorousness, he likes to poke and take jabs, and I feel she will get offended by it,” she famous. “She mentioned she would say ‘howdy’ to her so possibly that’s step one.”
“Kathy to me is far more honest and she or he actually didn’t go on the present to go after Teresa. I didn’t get that vibe from her. I feel she reacted out of frustration to among the issues that might go on between them,” she continued.
As for Melissa’s position in Teresa’s falling out with Kathy, Jacqueline mentioned Melissa was “completely” in Kathy’s ear.
“After which she simply flipped on her and completely ignored her. Similar to she did with me once I left,” Jacqueline shared. “Melissa didn’t even name me. She didn’t keep up a correspondence with me in any respect till she heard I used to be coming again on the present.”
