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Though Melissa Gorga of Real Housewives of New Jersey fame has reportedly patched things up with Teresa Giudice, her sister-in-law, she remains apprehensive about provoking Teresa’s ire, according to an insider source.
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Melissa recently joined her niece, Gia Giudice, on the Casual Chaos podcast, which aired last week. The source suggested that Melissa’s participation in the episode reflects her cautious approach to avoiding any conflict.
“Melissa is quite hesitant to ‘go there’ and say anything that might anger Teresa,” the insider noted. “She essentially admitted to this apprehension during the Casual Chaos podcast,” they added, highlighting Melissa’s own admission of feeling uneasy about the subjects discussed.
“I’m genuinely nervous because I imagine your mom listening,” Melissa confessed during the podcast. “When she hears this, she’s going to be like, ‘I don’t appreciate what you guys said.’ Gia, you’re stressing me out; you’re taking the blame for everything.”
“I’m like scared, because I feel like when your mom listens, because you know… I feel like when she listens to this, she’s like, ‘I don’t like that you guys said. I don’t like that.’ I’m like, Gia, you’re stressing me out. You’re taking the blame for all of this.”
Gia, for her part, insisted she went over the questions with Teresa before the podcast and that “she was fine.”
“Melissa doesn’t want to rock the boat and wants to keep things even-keeled and is nervous to say anything that may make Teresa mad,” the source divulged. “Things are finally good, and she’s seen how angry Teresa has gotten at her in the past and doesn’t want to go there again.”
Another driving force for keeping the peace is the show, the insider explained, as Bravo was not interested in repeating another season of the two of them at each other’s throats and not getting along.
“They know they have to keep things good for the sake of their livelihood, and Melissa certainly is not going to risk that by putting her foot in her mouth,” they added. “She’s being cautious. Given the past – and how long it took for the show to return after season 14 – it’s all with good reason.”
While on the podcast, the infamous Strippergate scandal from season four was discussed.
“Do you really feel that my mom was behind that, looking back on it now?” Gia asked Melissa. “Or do you feel that it was Kim D and other people that just put her in an awful situation?”
“Listen, I think it was very obvious that not your mom herself didn’t have this lightbulb come up in her head, but the group that she was with at the time, Kim D, whoever she somehow found, this guy that used to work at the strip club, right?” Melissa shared. “She gets herself into these situations where she doesn’t even realize how it’s going to look after, and when it gets said, I don’t think that she’s sitting there like, ‘Oh, today is the day that I’m bringing her down.’”
Melissa added it would “happen a lot in those seasons,” and she would tell Teresa it “didn’t look good” that she was with people who were saying things about her.