Last night on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 6 Episode 13, the fallout from the Florida trip continued to ripple through the cast.
The setting is Dina Manzo‘s charity event, Project Ladybug, and Teresa Giudice is back in the middle of things in the aftermath of the "disgusting rumor.”
Did Teresa Aprea‘s mom hook up with Rino Aprea?
That’s what Victoria Gotti alleged, but it’s Teresa who took heat for spreading this on The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 6 Episode 13 Sunday.
Kathy Wakile and Jacqueline Laurita agree that no matter what issues you have with someone, bringing up anyone’s mother in a feud crossed the line. Then again …
Presumably so would boning someone’s. Just sayin’.
Teresa Aprea and Nicole Nipolitano, her twin sister, are so pissed at the other Teresa in any case, blaming her for her role in making this story public.
“They’re hot-headed Italians,” Teresa Giudice says.
That they are, but if you watch The Real Housewives of New Jersey online, is that not a textbook case of the prison-bound pot calling the kettle black? Yes and no.
“I used to be a hot-headed Italian, but you live and learn," Teresa says, and we would say nicely played, but she still has quite a lot to learn apparently.
Like how to read a plea deal, maybe.
Anyway, Amber and Jim Marchese are a united front this week, embarking on an intimate photo shoot on the fifth anniversary of her cancer diagnosis.
"I wish the other girls could see this side of Jim,” she says, lamenting that the Jim Marchese they saw last week was kind of out of line, and of control.
Not that he’ sorry for what he did.
“They know nothing about family, faith or love," he says of his haters. "They really don’t. I really don’t have any regrets because I probably did the right thing.”
As tension begins to rise between Teresa Aprea and Teresa Giudice, Dina Manzo tries to get the namesakes to come together in the interest of charity.
"I’m all about forgiveness. Project Ladybug is the most important thing to me,” Dina says. “And anyone that’s nasty or negative, stay the f–k home.”
Dina suggests that Teresa Giudice simply apologize, but naturally this idea is rebuffed, with her saying “I know in my heart I didn’t do anything wrong."
“I have nothing to do with this at all. I will not be provoked. Dina definitely should have came to my defense more. This rumor, all it’s doing is causing drama.”
Melissa Gorga also tries to get through to her.
Same result, as the stubborn, headstrong Teresa Giudice manages to make this whole thing all about her (shocker) and digs her heels in even more:
“I have enough s–t going on. I can’t believe it. To even ask me that, especially with what I’m going through. Just leave me alone. I’m not bowing down to anyone.”
Well … except the penal system in this country, the judge that sent her up the river and the guards at her minimum security prison for the next 15 months.
Camp Cupcake or not, it’s still prison.