Melissa and Joe Gorga revealed there's a 'laundry checklist' of causes they did not attend Teresa Giudice's Aug. 6 marriage ceremony. Discover out why right here!
Joe Gorga, 42, the brother of Teresa Giudice, 50, and his spouse Melissa Gorga, 43, who was finest pals with Teresa, didn't attend Teresa’s Aug. 6 nuptials to Luis Ruelas, 46, they usually have now formally spoken out in regards to the matter. Whereas the pair had been invited to the marriage, Joe and Melissa revealed on the Aug. 11 episode of Melissa’s On Show podcast that there's a “laundry checklist” of causes that stored them from Teresa’s massive day, per Us Weekly. They stated their choice to skip the marriage, which was held in East Brunswick, N.J., stemmed from “one thing that went down” through the filming of the Season 12 reunion of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey, one thing that they kind of fully blamed Teresa for. “These precise particulars, I clearly can not say immediately,” Melissa famous. “Something that we've got filmed is one thing that I'm not capable of speak about.”
Melissa then confirmed there was “drama” that was a bit an excessive amount of for her liking. “I'm not going to sit down right here and say that there wasn’t drama, that it wasn’t loopy. Sure, there was a bit aggression from sure individuals that might have been a bit scary,” she recalled. “There positively had been moments.” She stated that she and Joe, and apparently “everybody within the room”, agreed it might be “very unusual” to expertise no matter occurred on set after which attend the marriage like nothing occurred.
Joe and Melissa alluded to Teresa’s obvious 13-year grudge in opposition to them for becoming a member of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey as being the underlying problem that drove a wedge between the threesome. “Persons are saying, ‘Oh, since you guys are on this actuality present, you recognize, get off the present. It impacts you and your loved ones.’ I disagree with that,” Joe defined. “I do know we’re on a actuality present, however when you’re pure and also you’re sincere and also you go in with open arms, why do it's a must to struggle? Why are we preventing? Why is that this occurring? Is there a jealousy factor occurring? Not with us. We’re not jealous.” Melissa added, “What’s unhappy is that it’s nonetheless occurring and if we took that chance, it must be OK. … You’re so offended and also you maintain this anger for 13 years. It’s insane.”
Joe additionally slammed his sister for “barely” wanting his household at her nuptials to start with. “[Skipping the wedding] was one of many hardest days of my life. It was unhealthy. However hear, let’s return to the reunion. She did this. You recognize, this was all on her. That is what she actually wished,” he theorized. “She didn’t need you within the marriage ceremony. She didn’t need any of my kids within the marriage ceremony. She barely wished me. I used to be requested in any case this data went out to be in a marriage. And that’s what saddens me. … Once I left that reunion, I checked out you in a automotive and I used to be like, ‘Wow, she hates us.’ I’ve by no means seen her like this.” He stated that Melissa “instantly” despatched a message to Teresa after the obvious drama went down on the reunion and she or he was left with no response.
Lastly, Joe and Melissa, who tied the knot in 2004, stated they know a number of issues about Luis that rubbed them the mistaken method, which might additionally make it odd for them to observe him marry Teresa. “We coated up lots of issues,” Melissa divulged. “Plenty of issues we all know and now I’m sitting again — I’m not gonna lie — second-guessing, like, why?”
Joe and Melissa beforehand spoke out in regards to the drama that went down on the reunion in pointed social media posts about household the night time earlier than Teresa’s marriage ceremony. “Blood doesn’t make you household,” Joe wrote on his Instagram Story. Melissa additionally shared a video from a household gathering and wrote, “God blessed me with wonderful household,” over it.
In Could, Melissa opened up about her fractured relationship with Teresa and admitted she feels “no guilt” over it as a result of she tried all the pieces she may to make issues work. “It’s OK to say that we don’t have one of the best relationship and I don’t really feel responsible saying that as a result of I attempted actually laborious and know that I attempted laborious — for my in-laws and for Joe,” she stated whereas on the Betches’ Point out It All podcast. She later added, “I simply really feel like I attempted and I’m good.”