Melissa Gorga revealed if her children have a relationship with their cousins, Teresa Giudice‘s kids, on the latest episode of Tamra Judge and Teddi Mellencamp‘s podcast.
With Real Housewives of New Jersey in limbo, Melissa, 45, addressed her past relationship with attorney James J. Leonard Jr., and her ongoing tension with Teresa, 52. She shared if she feels Luis Ruelas, 50, is the cause of the tension, and she revealed her thoughts on the casting of the upcoming 15th season.
“I do believe one of them just texted [my daughter, Antonia Gorga] for her birthday, but I don’t want to talk about the kids,” Melissa said on the August 23 episode of Two Ts in a Pod of her children’s communication with Teresa’s kids.
“It’s time to move on. It is what it is. It’s unhealthy. I wish nothing but the best. Everyone, enjoy life. Enjoy this moment in their lives. It’s just, that’s it,” she went on.
Although Teresa has accused Melissa of copying her life, Melissa suggested it was the other way around, citing Teresa’s launch of a podcast and hiring of her former lawyer.
“Jim Leonard, he used to be my attorney first. He signed my first contract for [RHONJ],” she revealed. “Don’t you guys start to see the pattern? I just told you about the podcast, one situation, see how it’s planted, I’m the copycat? I always want what they have? It is the complete opposite. He was my attorney.”
According to Melissa, James came to her and asked if he could work with her sister-in-law.
“He asked me, ‘May I take her on too, for the criminal stuff, she’s reaching out to me, asking me.’ And I’m like, ‘Wow, seems like a little bit of conflict of interest’ … He was mine, and then he was asked to start working with her, and I said, ‘Yes,’” she shared. “I loved him and his family very much, but little by little, I started to see that he was becoming too obsessed with, like, the production of it all, and that’s not me.”
Regarding Luis’ involvement in their feud, Melissa suggested that while he certainly hasn’t helped the situation, there were “a lot of problems before him.”
“I think I’ve been, and this obviously is two-sided, I’m not saying I’m an angel, but I think that I’ve taken a lot, I’ve forgiven a lot, I’ve moved forward with a lot,” she noted.
Melissa then mentioned the meeting Teresa had with Luis and Joe Gorga, 50, in which she seemingly tried to break up their marriage by mentioning a false cheating rumor.
“When you’re now calling my husband over for a chat without me, and you’re sitting there with your new. like, fiancé, and you’re telling him that I’m some bad wife and basically lying to him about cheating rumors with no proof, for me, I’m like, ‘And now, I have checked out of the building.’ Who would ever in their right mind [go back]?” Melissa asked. “And I think that was the day that my husband left here also feeling the same. He actually couldn’t believe that that’s why he got called over to the house and that I wasn’t at last invited to the conversation.”
Melissa didn’t understand why she was “left out of the conversation” and called the ordeal “crazy.”
“It was so absurd to the point where I don’t get hurt over it anymore,” she explained, naming the incident as her breaking point.
Also on the podcast, Melissa said that when it comes to season 15, she knows how Bravo could make an “amazing show.”
“I’m not gonna say who it is or what I think. I feel like it’s the most simple solution with adding a few — just because I know where the true friendships and the back and forth lie,” she stated.