Rather than ticker Teresa and Luis "Louie" Ruelas necktie the knot, Joe and Melissa were spotted having a time astatine the beach connected Aug. 6, 2022, aft Joe seemingly shaded his sister's nuptials the nighttime earlier connected Instagram. Sharing a pic with different household members and friends, Joe captioned his Instagram story, "Blood doesn't marque you family."

At the time, a root told E! News the mates skipped the wedding pursuing household tensions and a caller argument.

On the Aug. 11 episode of her On Display podcast, Melissa said determination was a "laundry database of reasons" wherefore she and Joe skipped Teresa's wedding, including a combat that broke retired betwixt them portion filming RHONJ play 13.

"There was thing that went down astatine the finale of filming," Melissa revealed. "Those nonstop details, I evidently cannot accidental today. Anything that we person filmed is thing that I americium not capable to speech about."

The Bravo prima besides stated that nary 1 knows "the afloat full story" of what caused their rift, adding, "There is drips and drabs of it, and that's due to the fact that the stories that are retired determination are evidently not coming from my camp. So, wage attention."

Teresa called the full concern "so sad" portion chatting with E! News successful September 2022, adding, "It's not however I wanted things to extremity up."

Despite that, the RHONJ prima revealed that she had nary plans of making amends with Joe and Melissa, stating, "No, no, no, that's truly it. That's it."

When asked whether there's country for reconciliation betwixt him, Melissa and Teresa, Joe told E! News' Erin Lim Rhodes astatine BravoCon 2022 on Oct. 14, "Well, there's ever room. What tin I say, I emotion my sister. I truly do."

"I consciousness similar we went backmost to erstwhile we archetypal got connected the show," helium continued. "And we're older now, and it shouldn't beryllium this way, and it saddens me. It truly does. And astatine the constituent I americium successful my life, astatine my age, I don't privation this. I truly don't privation this. So, it's not a bully situation."

But arsenic for what it would instrumentality to determination connected from the drama? Joe simply replied, "I don't know."

On Oct. 15, Teresa got affectional erstwhile responding to her brother's affirmative words astatine BravoCon, telling E! News, "My wedding was truly devastating to maine that helium wasn't determination and close now, I'm focusing connected my children and my husband. I request clip to heal. I'm precise heartbroken."

Also astatine BravoCon, Melissa opened up astir their family's existent struggles successful an interrogation with E! News on Oct. 16, during which she admitted to feeling "exhausted" by the full thing.

"There's ever highs and lows for america successful our relationship," she explained. "I would accidental close present is decidedly 1 of our lows. We are household and I deliberation close present the household conscionable needs a small time. I deliberation we request time, I don't deliberation anybody is successful it close now. I'm listening to her interviews, sounds similar she's not successful it, not consenting to determination forward."

The Giudice-Gorga household feud took a crook for the worse aft Joe poked amusive astatine Teresa's marriage during a BravoCon episode of Watch What Happens Live. When Melissa was asked whether she thinks her husband's stand-up vocation oregon Teresa and Louie's matrimony volition past longer, Joe got up and responded, "I'm gonna reply the question. My stand-up career, baby!"

Reacting to the comment, Teresa said connected the Oct. 25 episode of her Namaste B$tches podcast, "That's not my brother," adding that she doesn't cognize "what benignant of quality he's trying to play."

"What helium conscionable did astatine BravoCon, that's precise mean-spirited, precise sad," the RHONJ prima continued, "and I conscionable privation that helium would halt talking astir america to effort to marque himself relevant."

Teresa wrapped up her feelings by stating, "This is the past clip I'm talking astir this due to the fact that there's gonna beryllium a batch of things addressed, obviously, astatine the reunion. And then, aft that, I'm done."

In December 2022, Melissa told E! News that she was done with each the sum of their household drama.

"It's upsetting that there's a batch of tit for tat going on," she said at the Villa Azur Grand Opening astatine Grand Canal Shoppes wrong The Venetian Resort successful Las Vegas connected Dec. 8. "It's starting to consciousness similar radical are utilizing things arsenic ways to triumph the assemblage over. When I don't, I don't similar that. I don't respect that arsenic much."

She went connected to applaud Tamra Judge and the formed of The Real Housewives of Orange County for however they negociate struggle among the cast.

"That they tin get successful a knockdown, drag-out fight, but they permission it," Melissa explained. "They permission it there, they permission it astatine home, and they don't proceed the chaos connected societal media. And I person to say The Real Housewives of New Jersey is not large astatine that. They truly proceed the chaos."

Fans got their archetypal glimpse of however the family's play volition play retired connected the Bravo series in the RHONJ season 13 trailer. And the Dec. 21 sneak peek featured respective anger-fueled moments that could beryllium the combat that made Joe and Melissa skip Teresa's wedding—from Joe and Louie arguing astatine a guy's meal to Teresa and Melissa yelling astatine each different astatine a 1920s enactment and more.

Perhaps the astir aggravated combat teased comes astatine the extremity of the trailer. After Joe yells "f--k you" astatine Teresa during a fight, Louie threatens to punch his brother-in-law successful the face.

"She's ever wanted to support my member and I apart," Teresa says of Melissa successful the trailer. "She got her wish."

Following the aggravated RHONJ play 13 trailer, rumors began circling online that Teresa wanted to discontinue the Bravo bid due to the fact that of her struggle with Joe and Melissa.

But Teresa rapidly shut those rumors down, clarifying successful a December 2022 interrogation with People, "I would ne'er measurement away. I started the show," adding, "I'm ne'er going to springiness that to anyone due to the fact that I'm the 1 that started the show."

"Other radical are trying to enactment that retired there, like, 'Oh, Teresa wants to leave,'" she continued. "It's truthful brainsick to maine however radical are trying to works the effect that Teresa wants to permission the show…the games that radical play. No. I started this. I'm not walking distant until Bravo wants maine to locomotion away."

On the Dec. 22 episode of her On Display podcast, Melissa revealed however her girl Antonia, 17, has been handling each the household chaos. And overmuch to the star's surprise, she said her girl is simply "unfazed" by it all.

"It's truthful brainsick that she is specified a drama-free—like she astir giggles astatine drama, similar laughs astatine me," Melissa explained. "She'll laughter astatine maine and she'll beryllium like, 'Oh Mom, please.' Like, she's unfazed by the information that adjacent her cousins unfollowed her parents connected Instagram. She conscionable is like, 'You cognize what, Mom? Not your problem, theirs.'"

Melissa besides noted that increasing up connected world TV whitethorn person helped Antonia—as good arsenic her and Joe's sons Gino, 15, and Joey, 12—learn to woody with struggle "in a calm manner."

"I deliberation she's besides watched definite situations and things that I've been done too, and however I grip them and the calmness successful the country alternatively of the chaotic-ness," Melissa said, "and I deliberation she's learned from that. And it could besides conscionable beryllium her personality."

During the season 13 finale, which aired May 17, it was revealed that Teresa and Louie secretly met with Joe to archer him astir the cheating rumor astir Melissa a person of Margaret Josephs had started. Melissa slammed the "baseless rumor" and confronted Teresa astir trying to ruin her marriage.

"How situation you archer my hubby that I would cheat connected him!" she said. "Pretty f--ked up sister-in-law I have, isn't it?"

The rumor was the past straw for the Gorgas, who didn't not be Teresa's wedding connected the series.

During portion 1 of the RHONJ reunion May 30, Teresa made a bombshell accusation about her 2015 situation condemnation for fraud relating to Melissa and Joe.

"Jacqueline [Laurita] told maine truthful overmuch s--t that you and my member were doing," Teresa said earlier bringing up her and ex-husband Joe Giudice's ain situation sentence. "Joe's ex-partner, helium didn't spell to jailhouse due to the fact that helium outed me. They were hanging retired with him and they were speaking with him."

Melissa denied ever talking to the erstwhile concern associate. "I didn't adjacent cognize Joe Giudice's ex-partner," she stated. "This is similar [when you said] Caroline Manzo put you successful jail."

Teresa replied, "I instrumentality that back. I think you did." 

During the RHONJ reunion, Teresa said she wants her member and sister-in-law retired of her beingness forever, declaring, "I can't hold to ne'er f--king look astatine your look again aft today."

Melissa's effect to Tre seemingly wanting her disconnected the Bravo series? "Why, wherever you going?" she asked, to which Teresa replied, "You're leaving."

During the June 13 reunion episode, Joe alleged that Teresa's girl Gia Giudice said her uncle could "do better" than Melissa. So Teresa called her eldest girl up to archer her broadside of the story.

"I called him regarding the wedding saying that helium should bash the close thing," Gia said, "that Nonna and Nonno are looking down connected them and my ma wanted him to locomotion her down the aisle. I ne'er told him that helium could bash amended than my aunt Melissa. And it's sad, zio Joe, that you're trying to telephone maine a liar."

Overcome with anger, Teresa past stormed disconnected set. "You're f--king disgusting. Disgusting!" she ranted. "This is not however I would rise my children, ever! You should beryllium ashamed of yourself. And don't travel pursuing me!"

Heard of Bo Dietl? Tha famed backstage researcher became a blistery topic connected the reunion aft Margaret Josephs, Joe Gorga, Frank Catania and John Fuda accused Louie of hiring him to excavation up dirt connected the cast.

Louie fiercely denied hiring him and, aft the reunion concluded, Andy revealed Bo really texted him astir the drama.

"I conscionable privation to accidental connected his behalf, helium said, 'I ne'er did immoderate investigations connected the formed of the Housewives of New Jersey,'" Andy shared connected the June 14 occurrence of his SiriusXM vigor amusement Andy Cohen Live. "'I ne'er said that I didn't bash immoderate different investigations for Louie.'"

After 3 reunion episodes with changeless warring betwixt Teresa and Melissa, the feuding household members decided to spell their abstracted ways aft play 13.

In a heartbreaking conclusion, Joe delivered a parting connection to his sister. 

"You cognize what the champion happening to bash is?" helium proposed. "Forget astir me, I volition hide astir you. That's it. Do your thing, permission maine alone, permission everybody alone, unrecorded your f--king lives."

As for Melissa, she shared, "I decidedly consciousness the hate, right, you spot it. It's wide that I tin ne'er delight her, I ne'er could from time one. No substance what I did it was incorrect and, obviously, immoderate things ne'er change. I bash emotion you, nary substance what you think. I interest astir you and I'll spell with the travel with immoderate the household decides to do."

Rachel Fuda and Margaret—who has a long past of feuding with Teresa—ended the play squad Melissa, particularly aft the Bo Dietl of it all.

Margaret slammed Louie repeatedly during the reunion and claimed helium called her son's enactment to harass him (which Louie denied) portion Rachel's hubby John alleged Louie hired the P.I. to interaction his ex-wife to disturbance up play (which helium besides denied).

As Teresa's longtime BFF, Dolores Catania continued to straddle the obstruction betwixt unsighted loyalty and questioning immoderate of Teresa's much superior claims—especially the accusation that the Gorgas were liable for her situation sentence.

"It's hard to believe," Dolores told Andy. "Do I deliberation that a member could bash that to a sister? No."

But Dolores didn't clasp sick volition towards Melissa either. "It's clip for them to portion ways present due to the fact that it's conscionable toxic for some of them," she added, "and they're some hurt."

Jennifer Aydin—who besides helped spreading the Melissa cheating rumor—remains 100-percent #TeamTeresa.