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Melissa Gorga and her husband, Joe Gorga, gifted their daughter Antonia Gorga with a Porsche Macan for her seventeenth birthday in August 2022. However this week, after an argument involving their youngest son, Joey Gorga, 12, the Actual Housewives of New Jersey couple took away her keys.
Whereas showing on Jeff Lewis‘ radio present earlier this week, the place she mentioned parenting with the Flipping Out alum, Melissa opened up concerning the household spat that resulted in Antonia being banned from driving her new automotive for a complete week.
“If I’m gonna be trustworthy with you. My method is to yell consistently,” Melissa admitted of her parenting on the January 26 episode of SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Dwell. “[It’s] horrible. It’s like what I do, like I let you know the second you do it, and I’m mad the second you do it.”
As for her husband, Melissa stated Joe simply “shakes his head.”
“Joe simply listens. He’s a type of buildup guys… After which he explodes,” she defined.
In line with Melissa, her newest blowup with Antonia occurred final Sunday after a protracted weekend of actions with the household. As she recalled, Joey requested to go snowboarding with mates simply as they settled in. And, whereas the situation the place he does that is simply 15 or 20 minutes away, the couple was in no temper to return out — and didn’t have a nanny working on the time.
“We had been exhausted. Antonia was there. [And] she has a ravishing automotive that we pay for,” Melissa defined. “[So] Joe tells Antonia, ‘Antonia, get in your automotive. Go take him. He desires to go snowboarding.’”
Whereas Melissa described her teenage daughter as a “good child,” Antonia refused to drop Joey off, telling her father, “Completely not.”
“It went backwards and forwards for a very good 20 minutes of her simply refusing to drive her brother,” Melissa revealed. “She’s like, ‘He’s so annoying. Why do it’s a must to go, Joe?’ [And] we had been like, ‘We requested you for a favor. You might have all the things. We do all the things for you. Stand up and drive your brother.’”
And though Joe is usually the calm father or mother, he “misplaced his sh-t” and advised Antonia, “Gimme your automotive keys,” and has caught by the punishment within the days since.
“She hasn’t pushed that automotive the entire, this entire week. The primary time we’ve ever finished this to her,” Melissa shared. “And he’s like, ‘cuz you’re gonna study respect. Like when your dad and mom are caring for you, and so they’re paying your automotive fee, and we ask you for a favor, the following time we ask you, you’re gonna get off your a– and also you’re gonna drive your little brother.’”
The RHONJ solid member went on to inform Jeff that Antonia has been “tormenting” her and “shedding it” all week whereas Joe has continued to stay to his weapons. In actual fact, even after Melissa pleaded with him to rethink on account of her points with having to drive Antonia locations herself, Joe wouldn’t give in.
“So I’m curious to see if she says ‘no’ to us once more. And for this reason you should take it away longer, greater than a few days to the purpose they’re like, ‘Oh sh-t they’re critical,’” Melissa famous. “Typically I really feel like my youngsters will cross me once more, however they gained’t cross Joe as a result of he simply held that out for per week straight.”
“Subsequent time she’s gonna stand up and drive her brother,” she added.
The Actual Housewives of New Jersey season 13 premieres Tuesday, February 7, at 9/8c on Bravo.