Jacqueline Says Caroline “Not Well” After RHUGT Drama 

Jacqueline Laurita appeared on former Actual Housewives of New Jersey producer Carlos King‘s podcast on Monday, the place she provided an replace on Caroline Manzo.

Weeks after Caroline was reportedly touched in an inappropriate method by Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Brandi Glanville on the set of Actual Housewives: Final Women Journey season 4, Jacqueline admitted her sister-in-law is “not effectively” earlier than opening up about the best way by which Melissa Gorga and Kathy Wakile joined RHONJ and searching again on her lunch date with Teresa Giudice and Luis Ruelas.

“I really simply reached out to her,” Jacqueline confirmed on the February 20 episode of Actuality With The King. “I reached out to her when stuff occurred with Brandi. I do know there’s rather a lot she will’t discuss proper now.”

When Carlos wished to know the way Caroline was doing after her reported encounter with Brandi, which allegedly resulted in Brandi being despatched house early, Jacqueline revealed Caroline is “not effectively.”

“It was very traumatizing,” Jacqueline said. “I didn’t push it an excessive amount of. I simply wished to know she was okay as a result of initially … I assumed she like beat her up or one thing occurred … I feel it’s been laborious for her.”

Transferring on to the neverending saga of how Melissa joined RHONJ, Jacqueline stated she didn’t know that Melissa had allegedly reached out to producers however discovered later that she had contacted Danielle Staub to inform her “stuff.”

“I bear in mind Melissa was scared about that at one level. She didn’t need Danielle to return out with what she had stated to her and he or she didn’t inform me what she stated to her however I can think about what all of it was,” Jacqueline said.

Based on Jacqueline, she believes producers have been intrigued by Teresa being so anti-Melissa, particularly after seeing the sisters-in-law feud on Fb over sprinkle cookies and listening to Teresa inform her castmates to not movie together with her.

“Teresa at all times used to say whereas we have been mic’d, ‘Don’t discuss to Melissa. She simply desires her face on digicam.’ She knew what Melissa was about so she didn’t need her being observed and on digicam,” Jacqueline defined.

However regardless of her efforts, as followers effectively know, Melissa was finally dropped at the forged.

“It was a few week earlier than filming when [Teresa] discovered … I bear in mind the Christening was going to be the primary scene they filmed. So Teresa was like ‘I’m not doing the present. I’m not filming with them,’” Jacqueline recalled. “She was so towards it.”

Though Jacqueline suggested Teresa to make amends with Melissa and Joe previous to the beginning of filming on RHONJ season three, Teresa didn’t accomplish that. As an alternative, as she held out on signing her contract, she deliberate to behave like nothing was unsuitable.

“She kinda thought, ‘I’m simply gonna act like nothing’s unsuitable on digicam,’ and he or she went over to place her arms round them like, ‘Hey guys,’ after which they have been like, ’Now you’re being good to us?’” she revealed. “They referred to as her out on digicam. In the event that they wished to return on the present and be peaceable, why try this?”

Trying again, Jacqueline stated Melissa and Joe have been adamant about not wanting to harm Teresa — all whereas they performed sufferer to her.

“They’d a whole lot of tales about how Teresa handled them and a whole lot of issues … I feel they have been upset that they weren’t included on her present when she was on the present and so now they’re like, ‘We’re gonna get on our personal means,’” she suspected.

And though Kathy joined the forged on the similar time, Jacqueline defended the best way she did so, claiming she by no means supposed to shock her cousin, Teresa, together with her addition.

“[Kathy] didn’t say something at first to Teresa as a result of she didn’t even know in the event that they have been gonna decide her and he or she didn’t wish to undergo the entire interview course of after which not get on it and must be like, ‘They didn’t decide me to be in your present,’” Jacqueline defined. “She was gonna inform Teresa however then she had gone away first. They have been making an attempt to resolve, ‘Are we actually doing this?’ After which when she received again, Teresa had already discovered.”

Years after the drama of season three, and after years of turmoil, Jacqueline loved a lunch date with former castmate Teresa, which she credit, partially, to Andy Cohen.

“Andy Cohen stored mentioning my title on Watch What Occurs Stay like with Teresa, ‘I feel it’s time to finish that conflict,’ and he would say little issues like, bringing me up and I heard her in a number of various things the place she was saying like, she would discuss to me,” Jacqueline revealed. “I knew it was there however I didn’t wish to attain out as a result of I didn’t wish to get again into that world.”

However then one morning, Jacqueline woke as much as a textual content from Teresa, who stated she was coming to Las Vegas and hoped to fulfill.

“She was like, ‘You’ll be able to deliver Chris. I’m gonna have Luis.’ I sat up and I like, had to have a look at it once more. I used to be in such shock and I confirmed Chris. I’m like, ‘Teresa desires to fulfill for espresso. What do you suppose?’ And Chris was like, ‘It’s best to sit down. It’s been a very long time. I feel it is best to sit down and discuss, hear her out. See what she has to say,’” Jacqueline shared. “And so we agreed to fulfill together with her.”

“I used to be excited to see her and it was simply bizarre after I noticed her … We actually virtually, it was virtually like working in direction of one another to hug one another. And we simply began speaking like no time had handed and we didn’t even actually tackle the previous points,” she continued. “We have been simply catching one another up on all the things.”

Whereas many felt that Jacqueline’s reconciliation with Teresa was prompted by the unfavorable feedback Jacqueline made publicly about Melissa, Jacqueline confirmed there was not “one other motive.”

“[Teresa] was very real and simply so candy,” Teresa insisted. “We each kinda simply stated, through the time of the present, we have been each going by way of issues in our lives that was very irritating. We had a whole lot of strain being on the present, not solely from producers however individuals in our ears from individuals on the forged, or outdoors influences and stuff, so when you have got lots of people in your ears and also you’re underneath a whole lot of stress and issues are occurring on the present, you don’t actually know who to belief. It’s very laborious to make up and keep a friendship on a present like that.”

And though she and Teresa didn’t go away off in the very best place on RHONJ, Jacqueline stated her current encounter with Teresa confirmed a “very completely different” facet of her from what followers see on tv.

“She was rather more humbled, very candy, her demeanor was very completely different. She jogged my memory of the previous Teresa,” Jacqueline famous. “I used to be very blissful to see her. We picked up like no time had handed and [were] simply laughing, speaking, [and] catching up. Gabriella referred to as … so I received to see her. It was simply very nice.”

As for her ideas on Luis, Jacqueline stated that whereas she’d “heard issues” about him from different individuals previous to assembly him, she discovered him to be the “nicest individual.”

“He was very caring and upbeat and optimistic. He was like, ’Teresa’s been wanting to achieve out to you for a very long time and I’m glad she did it’ in order that made me blissful,” she revealed.

Jacqueline then famous that whereas she and Teresa have made up quite a few instances, she thinks “this time is for good.”

Jacqueline Laurita was featured on the primary seven seasons of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey, though her season six function was that of a “good friend.”