As if Real Housewives of New Jersey could get any more divided, it seems that Jennifer Fessler has just complicated matters more. The cast members are vying for reality TV longevity by firmly placing themselves either behind Teresa Giudice or in Melissa Gorga’s camp.
Rachel Fuda is strictly team Melissa, and by proxy, siding with Margaret Josephs. But fellow newbie Jennifer broke rank on the recent episode of RHONJ by revealing to Teresa the pre-reunion meeting Margaret hosted at her house.
Jennifer explained what really happened
Danielle Cabral was hosting a party in honor of her husband, Nate Cabral, six years of health post-brain surgery. The group was at the Jersey Shore having a great time, when Teresa approached Jennifer to ask why “everyone had met at Margaret’s house” to “prep” for the Season 13 reunion.
“My husband [Luis Ruelas] met with Frank [Catania] after New York,” Teresa said. “He said to him that everyone had met at Margaret’s house the night before the reunion. Why did Margaret have you guys all at her house?”
“That whole group,” according to Jen included, “Jackie [Goldschneider], not Evan [Goldschneider], Margaret and Joe [Benigno], Jeff [Fessler] and I, Melissa and Joe [Gorga], and Rachel and John [Fuda].”
The meeting was in response to the claims Luis made in Season 13 to have gotten compromising information on his co-stars via a private investigator. And not just any private investigator, but “one the most famous” “in the country.”
Jennifer explained, “It was, like, a get-together to say, ‘We’re walking into this sh-tshow. When they come at us with this, we can come back at them with, whatever, XYZ.'”
“In New York. Nate, Danielle, and Paulie [Connell] … heard you say, ‘You guys didn’t execute the plan correctly,'” Teresa pressed.
Her conversation with Teresa will likely cause major drama
Jennifer clarified that she did not refer to “a plan” of take-down.
“I said they came in there with the manilla envelopes and I was like, ‘You talk this big talk about the manilla envelopes and you didn’t even open them,'” she explained.
“Margaret was going to pull out her son’s recording of what happened with that phone call,” Jennifer said in a confessional regarding the alleged phone call Luis made to Margaret’s son. “But from what I remember, it wasn’t even used.”
She added that Margaret “was hysterical the day that she thought that Louie called her son.” Jen also revealed that Margaret claimed that the police had proof of the call as well.
Teresa defended Luis and swore that no such phone call was ever made.
“It was not true. I swear to God,” Teresa said. “On my four daughters, we did not do that.”
Meanwhile, in a confessional interview, Jennifer said she “really wants to believe her.” But “Teresa swearing on her girls” still didn’t give Jen the full confidence.
Meanwhile, Rachel bemoaned the loss of her “ride-or-die.” And if the season trailer is any indication, Jennifer’s friendship with Teresa will only cause more drama.
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