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'Real Housewives NJ': Teresa addresses the 'nephew controversy' on 'Wendy Williams'
Part 2 of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" reunion airs Monday (Sept. 6) on Bravo, but there was one moment from Part 1 that fans are still buzzing about.
Why did Teresa Giudice get so enraged when Danielle Staub accused of her of not acknowledging her nephew's birth?
Teresa, Jacqueline Laurita and Caroline Manzo appeared on Monday's "The Wendy Williams Show" and Teresa addressed the incident.
She explained that while some people heard her scream at Danielle, "Don't break up my family," she actually said, "Don't bring up my family." And as far as the accusation that she didn't acknowledge her nephew's birth, Teresa says she did.
"We were in California when my nephew was born," Teresa tells Wendy Williams. "So as soon as we got back from California, I went to go see my nephew in the hospital and that night I had a live tweet on talk bubble for the New York housewives. If my fans remember that, they'll remember I said that my nephew was born."
Then, Jacqueline interjected, "Whomever's obsessed can go back to Teresa's tweets back to the birth and they'll see her saying she was in the hospital visiting him."
"Obsessed" is a good word for it. Ever since the first part of the reunion aired, gossip on Teresa's nephew got out of control. Some said it was a veiled reference to Joe, Teresa's husband, having another child via an affair. Others have said that the nephew in question belongs to Joe's brother, who had a baby with an African-American woman, so the family didn't recognize the mixed-race baby's birth.
Both seem ludicrous now that Teresa says that she got to the hospital to visit the baby as soon as she could after her California trip. Does that calm the conspiracy theorists? We doubt it.
Part 2 of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" reunion airs Monday at 10 p.m. on Bravo.
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Why the hell are they even called "housewives?" They're all a bunch of conniving, whiny *******.
how can the family not show off mixed race baby, but show off joes four little hillbilly girls. i bet that mixed baby looks better then them
Although Theresa addressed the issue of the nephew, I notice that it does not appear that she addressed whether or not the child is mixed race. And why did she decide to go on Wendy's show to clear this up?
Sorry, I'm not buying her story. No one, I mean NO ONE gets that upset unless there is some truth to the story. Theresa is nuts, and Danielle knows more than Theresa wants out in the public eye.
She was protecting her family because she knows Danielle goes for the low blows. There is no interracial baby, that's just people making stuff up.
conspiracy theorists?
Teresa and Joe dummied up tax returns and turned them in with a bankruptcy to try to fool a trustee, and the IRS says they were never filed. they are this stupid.
Teresa hid hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets from the same trustee.
Joe claimed he got drunk *after* the accident for which he now has a DUI.
Joe and Teresa filed bankruptcy because they lost a court case in which they were sued for forging Joe's partner's name on a document (to which witnesses attest) that falsely stated Joe had repaid a loan of several hundred thousand dollars.
And this is just what the public knows about. So in short, we can only tell the Giudices are lying if their mouths are moving. That doesn't make someone a conspiracy theorist, it makes them a pragmatist.
The 'dirt' behind this is that Theresa's brother's wife (the mother of the nephew in question) and Theresa do not like each other.
Apparently Danielle knew this and accused Theresa of not acknowledging the child, which was untrue.
Rumor has it that Theresa's sister in law is being considered for the show because she and Theresa don't get along, but the Sister in Law isn't crazy, like Staub, so there would be drama, but not danger (Staub brought all kinds of danger).
It has nothing to do with race, as both Theresa's brother and sister in law are Italian.
Trash!
I thought she said in an interview after the reunion that she was there in the hospital while he was born ("At first, I had no idea what she was talking about because I was there and my 90,000 Twitter followers were kind of at the hospital with me that day too. If you all remember, I was scheduled to do the live Bravo Chat Bubble for a Real Housewives of New York episode the night he was born, and I was at the hospital so long")...maybe I am confused but this is the first time I am hearing about this cali trip.
Oh and I read the facebook updates by the SIL and it is clear there is some tension between them.
the mixed-race thing sounds plausible. i think they should just all agree that they're all horrible trash in their own very special ways.
teresa blabs on and on, screaming at danielle about danielle's family and personal life and then as soon as danielle mentions one thing about teresa's personal life she blows up on her! lots of hypocrisy.
they're all horrible.