RHONJ: Melissa & Teresa's Feud Comes to an Explosive Conclusion

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The Real Housewives of New Jersey's play 13 finale was the nail successful the coffin for Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga's relationship.

During the Bravo series' May 16 episode, Danielle Cabral yet told Melissa astir the cheating rumor Teresa and Jennifer Aydin heard from Margaret Joseph's ex-BFF Laura. But surprisingly, Melissa wasn't the slightest spot shocked to find retired her sister-in-law had repeated the allegation that Melissa kissed different antheral who wasn't hubby Joe Gorga.

Why?

"I've already heard this communicative and bash you wanna cognize how? Through my husband," Melissa told Danielle. "Do you wanna cognize however I heard it done my husband? 'Cause his sister called him implicit to her location secretly without maine to archer him this communicative down my back."

Melissa then revealed how Teresa's now-husband Luis "Louie" Ruelas was really progressive successful the cheating play too.

"Six months ago, Teresa called Joe implicit with Louie due to the fact that she heard a rumor astir maine and she believes it truthful overmuch that she had to telephone her member over," she explained in her confessional. "How situation you archer my hubby that I would cheat connected him!"

Melissa added, "Pretty f--ked up sister-in-law I have, isn't it?"

Slamming the "baseless rumor," Melissa revealed wherefore she stayed soundless astir Teresa and Louie's concealed gathering with Joe.

"I had nary volition of confronting her astir this," she noted in different confessional. "Joe doesn't judge it. It's bulls--t. And due to the fact that I wanted to fto her person a peaceful six months starring up to her wedding, look what ends up happening. She has her minion marque maine look atrocious successful beforehand of everyone truthful everyone tin perceive the words 'Melissa's a cheater.' And I'm done."

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Later, the full formed began a heated treatment with Melissa labeling Teresa a "loser" and Teresa firing back, "Disgusting!" Joe and Louie adjacent needed to beryllium held backmost from a carnal fight.

As for Teresa, she denied taking the rumor to Joe. "First of all, it wasn't his sister, it was Louie who was like, 'I privation to archer your member that each this is coming from Margaret truthful your member tin get successful beforehand of it,'" she said successful a confessional. "So helium was looking retired for my member and I ne'er repeated it to anyone." 

Needless to say, the explosive combat was the past straw for the Gorgas, who skipped Teresa and Louie's August 2022 nuptials and person been connected atrocious presumption with them ever since.

"How tin I spell and observe idiosyncratic else's matrimony erstwhile they are the radical perpetually trying to destruct mine?" Melissa said. "I don't request to woody with toxic radical that wanna bring maine down, adjacent if they travel successful the signifier of your family."

Keep reading for a implicit timeline of Teresa's feud with the Gorgas.

RHONJ's Teresa Gets Married peculiar airs Tuesday, May 23, astatine 8 p.m. connected Bravo.

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Joe & Melissa Skip Teresa's Wedding

Rather than ticker Teresa locomotion down the aisle, 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.

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Wedding Bill Rumors

Three days aft tying the knot, Louie responded to rumors that Teresa sent her member and sister-in-law a measure for missing the wedding. "We would ne'er successful a cardinal years inquire for wealth from Joe and Melissa—we are not petty," helium commented connected a instrumentality relationship Instagram station connected Aug. 9. "Joe and Melissa were missed."

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Joe & Melissa Break Their Silence

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."

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What's Done Is Done

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."

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Joe's Olive Branch

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."

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Melissa Feels "Exhausted"

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."

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Teresa Claps Back

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."

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Done With the Drama

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."

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Season 13 Showdown

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."

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Not Going Anywhere

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."

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Antonia Gorga Weighs In

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."

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