Jackie Goldschneider is officially a Tre-hugger and is now hanging one-on-one with Teresa Giudice despite their contentious history. “I’m really excited that I’m hanging out with Teresa and if I was looking at this a year ago, I don’t think I’d be able to explain it myself,” she tells the cameras. “But I want to be surrounded by nice people and people who make me happy, so here we are.”
She tells Teresa that she was glad Margaret Josephs was not at the Bougie brunch, as she didn’t want to get into it with her again. “She just seems angry,” Jackie says.
“See, I love my friends that stand in their power. I love powerful women, I really do,” Teresa says. What she means is, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
“I just wanted you to stand up for yourself,” Teresa tells Jackie. “I don’t know, I feel like the energy coming from you and Jen is just so much like, lighter and more fun,” Jackie answers. She has officially drunk the Kool-Aid.
Rachel Fuda gives Margaret Josephs the brunch lowdown
Rachel Fuda calls Margaret, who is in Charleston celebrating a friend’s 60th birthday. John Fuda, who is trying to be a cast member at this point, sits down with his wife. Rachel fills Margaret in on the brunch and her fight with Teresa.
She tells Margaret that she asked Teresa why she said John was “the biggest drug dealer in Bergen County.” Rachel continues, “She just kept dancing around the question. Like, she wouldn’t answer. She’s like, ‘I didn’t say he is, I said he was.'”
“I go, ‘The point is that you took something that my husband made a mistake when he was a 17-year-old kid and tried to weaponize it to make your f*cking husband look better,'” Rachel rants. Then she tells Margaret that Teresa said, “Isn’t your husband a parking attendant?”
“Isn’t her husband unemployed and mooches off of her?” Margaret shoots back.
Dolores Catania wants Paul Connell to get divorced already
Dolores Catania’s boyfriend Paul Connell has been separated from his ex for about 15 years but they’re still legally married for some reason. Dolo wants to get engaged to Paul but doesn’t want to talk about the next steps until his divorce is finalized.
“Listen, Paul, it’s not about me being upset about getting engaged. That’s not what I’m gunning for here,” she tells him during dinner. “Like, explain this to me. What’s taking so long? Because it’s getting on my nerves a little bit, to be honest with you.”
“So now you’re getting angry?” he asks her. “Now I’m getting angry,” she answers. Don’t mess with Dolores from Paterson, New Jersey, Paulie. “You told me you were going to be divorced last year,” she reminded him.
This is looking familiar to Dolores, who went through the same thing with her ex David Principe. Somebody put a ring on it, for her sake! The lady just wants to get married.
“Maybe I’ll wake up one day and say, ‘I’m going to have to rethink this if it doesn’t happen,” she warns Paul. He’s not about to be pushed around. “I would prefer you do that … sooner than later. Because I’m not rethinking anything, so if you’re in the process that you possibly have to rethink it, you need to check in with yourself and think about things,” he says.
Dolores is all agog at his gall and tells him he’s getting “nasty.”
Jennifer Aydin and Jen Fessler are caught in the middle
The two Jennifers meet up for a boozy lunch. Jen Fessler asks Jennifer Aydin how Teresa is reacting to her making up with Melissa Gorga. Jennifer’s face says it all.
“She acknowledges that we’re all going to be together on multiple occasions and I have to do what’s best for me,” Jennifer responds. “And what’s best for me is letting go of hostility and moving on.” She reveals that she hasn’t yet told Teresa that she’s going to the Gorgas housewarming party and acknowledges that it would probably bother her.
Jen says that she’s caught in between feuding friends too. She’s getting closer to Teresa, which Rachel and Margaret aren’t happy about.
“It’s just such a bummer that like, we’ve gotten to this. In this group, people hate each other one minute, love each other the next,” Jen states.
Jennifer gripes about Danielle Cabral being upset that she had the hairstylist Lina at her brunch and dissed her being at the VIP area at her charity event. “She was saying like, ‘Who is Lina to be there with us?’ I wouldn’t defend behavior like that.” Jen responds, “Gross!”
Danielle Cabral makes her NYFW debut
Danielle arrives at the event place for her Bougie Kidz fashion show during New York Fashion Week. It’s hectic backstage and all the kids are running around getting their grubby hands on the clothes.
It’s not really her fashion show but she’s closing for another one and it kicks off with a young girl dancing ballet to classical music. Danielle is freaking out because her show is not as bougie as this one.
They start playing her EDM music and she’s not prepared at all.
The kids finally come out and they’re all cute and everybody says, “Awwww.” Danielle comes out and takes her bow.
She tells the cameras, “The way that they are cheering, it’s just like hitting every emotional nerve in my body.”
Rachel and John Fuda agree to a sitdown with Teresa and Luis
John and Rachel have finally agreed to meet with Teresa and Ruelas. As Rachel’s getting ready, John tells her that wants an apology from Teresa for calling him a drug dealer and parking attendant.
Meanwhile, Teresa and Luis are helping each other stretch at their house. “I think it’s a great idea that we meet as couples because what it does is that like, it gives us a chance to end things at one instance, in one chance,” Luis says.
Teresa isn’t as magnanimous and says, “I don’t like how John demands an apology … we did nothing wrong.” Except for accusing someone of being a drug dealer.
“I really wish he would say sorry to you for putting a false narrative out there,” Teresa tells Luis, referring to when John accused him of contacting his ex. “Even Rachel said that I haven’t done anything with my life since I got out of jail. I could sit there and call her names too or whatever. I don’t want to be that person anymore.”
Rachel and John Fuda storm out
The big meeting is here and John has requested a private room like a scene out of a mafia movie. Teresa starts by telling the Fudas that she never had a problem with them. Rachel responds, “I do not truly feel that you wanted to be my friend.”
“Listen, I get it. Sometimes when you’re close to one person, it’s hard to get close to another person,” Teresa says. “Are you implying that because I was close to Melissa that I didn’t feel like I could get close to you?’ Rachel asks. “Yeah, because I didn’t know why you felt like that,” Teresa says.
She tells John that she felt a connection with him in the beginning. He asks her, “What changed to go out and call me drug dealer?”
“I wasn’t calling you a drug dealer, like, currently,” she says. “Are you sure about that?” John asks. “Yes, I’m positive,” she tells him.
“If you heard that I called you a drug dealer currently, I’m sorry you heard that,” Teresa states. That’s not the apology that John was looking for.
He tells Teresa that she took information from his ex, who is currently in jail and a former crystal meth manufacturer. Teresa tells him to stop talking because it’s his son’s mom that he’s blasting on national television.
John says, “You don’t know her and when you guys hashed this all up, my son has to go through this.” He reveals that his ex took over the wheel of the car they were in and crashed into a telephone pole, breaking his leg. He still wants Teresa to apologize.
However, she wants an apology from him too. “You guys threw the first punch. I never throw the first punch.”
John is not getting the apology that he wants so he wants to go. That’s when the low blows come. “See you John Furgazi,” Teresa says. “And you’re the poster child for mortgage fraud,” he shoots back. “When I need my money laundered I’ll call ya!” Teresa yells, “Drug dealer!”
