On Real Housewives of New Jersey, reconciliation and forgiveness aren’t necessarily common themes. So, when we learned that Teresa Giudice and Kim DePaola reunited, we were all a little caught off guard. That includes Teresa’s ride-or-die Dolores Catania.
In case you missed it, Teresa re-followed Kim on Instagram last year. A few months later, they went out to lunch and shared pictures of their hangout. Hell didn’t freeze over, and pigs didn’t fly. It turned out that the two just decided to move past their decade-long feud. Meanwhile, Dolores didn’t even know it was happening until “right before” the two met up.
You can’t stay mad forever
Dolores spoke to Us Weekly about her bestie’s surprising reconnection with Kim D. Since she’s “playing Switzerland” in Season 14, it shouldn’t be too surprising that she was in full support of Teresa making amends with some of her former RHONJ foes.
“That’s a relationship that needed to be rekindled,” Dolores said.
“Life’s short,” she explained. “They had a really close friendship. Now they can talk, now that things are calm and they’re not mad at each other anymore. It only takes, in Jersey, eight years to get over a tiff.”
With that timeline in mind, does that mean we’ll hear about Teresa sitting down with Melissa Gorga and Margaret Josephs in 2032? Probably not. However, Dolores said she was also glad to see Teresa reconcile with Jaqueline Laurita last year. For her, it’s all about salvaging genuine friendships, even if it takes years to make it happen.
“I advocate [for] anybody who had a history, who were really friends making up,” Dolores explained. “Those are real friendships.”
The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 14 airs on Bravo, Sunday nights at 8/7c.