Margaret Josephs dropped the ultimate bombshell about Jackie Goldschneider on the Season 14 finale of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and while much of the cast was expecting a big reaction from Teresa Giudice, she remained calm and ultimately dismissed the revelation. Now, we have more context as to why.
“I already knew what they were gonna say and I didn’t even flinch,” Teresa revealed in a July interview with BravoTV.com. “Margaret let Jackie do it because at the time, Jackie was Margaret’s puppet.”
“I’m totally fine with Jackie doing that because I hurt her,” Teresa continued, referencing the time she repeated a rumor she had heard about Jackie’s husband, Evan Goldschneider. “I hurt her by putting out what I said about Evan. See? I’m a big girl. If I punch you, I get it, you’re gonna punch me back.”
In her own interview with BravoTV.com, Jackie admitted she was “very caught off guard” by Margaret’s revelation during the group dinner at Rails Steakhouse. “I did not know how to react in that moment,” she said. “At first, I denied it. Then I was like, ‘F-ck it, I’m gonna admit it. And if Teresa doesn’t want to be my friend anymore, I get it.'”
That clearly wasn’t the case, though. In fact, the day after the dramatic Rails dinner, Jackie said that she spoke to both Teresa and her husband Luis “Louie” Ruelas in a “half-hour call.”
Teresa and Jackie attends BravoCon at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, NV on November 3, 2023. Photo: Todd Williamson/Bravo
“I felt bad,” Jackie added. “Regardless of what [Teresa] had done to me in the past, I still felt bad.”
But Teresa and Louie were “unbothered,” according to her.
Teresa, for her part, agreed. As she put it, “I could’ve gotten ugly, [but] that’s just not the person I am. And I said that to her. Whatever she did in the past, I don’t care. I get why she did what she did. I get it. I just don’t roll like her.”
Hear more from Teresa and Jackie in the above video.