Once and for all, Margaret Josephs is trying to clear up the story about contacting Luis Ruelas’ ex.
On The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Teresa Giudice and Luis held a full-blown legal conference to throw out the accusation. However, Margaret insisted that it wasn’t a big deal and that Jackie Goldschneider was the one being fed information from the ex.
With the lack of an actual reunion for Season 14, there were still some lingering questions over all of this messy drama. Thankfully, we have two investigative reporters named Tamra Judge and Teddi Mellencamp working tirelessly to get to the bottom of it. They invited Marge to their podcast, Two Ts in a Pod to get the full scoop on Margaret’s involvement with the infamous ex.
Margaret Josephs pulled out the timeline, so when exactly did she first speak to Luis Ruelas’ ex?
During the podcast, Margaret explained just how she got involved with Luis’ ex, whose name is actually Vanessa. The show kept bleeping it out, but now that we can put a name to the bleep, it’s a little bit easier to follow.
On RHONJ, we saw a montage of clips showing Margaret dodging questions about contacting the ex. She swore up and down that she didn’t do it, but the story seemingly changed once Teresa called her out. However, Margaret explained that those flashbacks on the show were misleading.
According to Margaret, the accusations about Vanessa all started in 2021 when the cringey “warrior” video leaked. You know the video — it’s the one on the beach where Luis is sharing affirmations with a few bros. Margaret stood adamant that she had nothing to do with that.
“In 2021, I had never ever spoken to Vanessa. She wasn’t reaching out to me,” Marge explained.
Margaret insisted that she saw the “warrior” video with the rest of the world but was prompted by a producer to bring it up on camera. Perhaps that would explain why suddenly Margaret got blamed for leaking it.
Despite facing accusations that she was in cahoots with Vanessa, Margaret consistently argued that wasn’t the case. She said she never leaked anything about Luis, because she didn’t need to.
“I don’t have to leak anything,” Margaret explained. “I say it right to your face. I don’t need to push it out there.”
It all started in the DMs
Once Margaret started getting accused of working with Vanessa, she coincidentally started to periodically receive DMs from her. Generally, Margaret claimed the ex was just trying to make “small talk.” Then, their relationship evolved in 2022 once Marge found out that Teresa and Jennifer Aydin were talking to Margaret’s former friend Laura Marasca Jensen to try to get dirt.
“I then felt comfortable responding to [Vanessa] via DMs,” Marge explained. “I was comfortable enough to then respond to her because these people are sick, they’re accusing me of things.”
Over the next year, Marge and Vanessa’s relationship continued to evolve. The RHONJ star said she occasionally bumped into Vanessa around town. For example, they ran into each other at a Joe Gorga comedy show of all places. The state of New Jersey is only so big.
The link between Margaret and Vanessa reached its peak when the Bo Dietl “investigation” came to light. Margaret said that at that point, she felt “very comfortable” talking to Vanessa, who was also having a legal entanglement with Bo. Essentially, Marge said they were swapping stories about how “crazy” the whole situation seemed.
“I was like ‘Whats’ going on? IS this Bo Dietl thing real? What’s happening here?'” Marge recalled.
Ultimately, Marge’s stance remained unchanged from what we heard on the show. She doesn’t think she did anything wrong by contacting Luis’ ex. She’s confident that their relationship was a reaction to the Lauren situation, rather than a years-long plot to take down Luis. Is that enough context to change Teresa’s mind? Absolutely not.
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