Season 14 of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey got here to a dramatic finish. Throughout Sunday’s highly-anticipated episode, Jackie Goldschneider was seemingly revealed to be the one behind all the things that Teresa Giudice tried to pin on Margaret Josephs all through the season, data that led to an enormous showdown at Rails Steakhouse.
Tensions have been excessive earlier than the dinner, with Teresa’s husband, Louie Ruelas, warning her to avoid Margaret, whom he dubbed a “piece of garbage.”
“I hope Margaret and her family suffer. You know, I hope her f**king son suffers the way I suffered,” Louie instructed Teresa. “The way other people in our family have suffered. Dealing with a woman like that, she’s a disgusting, vile human being.”
Louie additionally expressed a distaste for “bottom feeder” Rachel Fuda and Teresa’s estranged sister-in-law, Melissa Gorga.
Melissa and her husband, Joe Gorga, additionally complained about Teresa and Louie, with the latter insisting that he’d by no means reconcile together with his sister after she and her partner ruined a enterprise deal, allegedly generated unhealthy PR in opposition to his development enterprise and employed a personal investigator.
“It’s OK to finally say, ‘It’s over,'” Melissa assured her husband.
As the women lastly arrived to Rails, issues bought off to a poor begin when Teresa refused to sit down throughout from Margaret.
Jennifer Aydin and Danielle Cabral began issues off by arguing concerning the latter lady’s charity occasion, which spun right into a back-and-forth about cash. Jennifer claimed that “clown” Danielle was jealous of her life and mansion, whereas Danielle insisted that Jennifer’s large home was “empty” by way of the issues that matter.
Issues bought uncontrolled when Jennifer made a dig at Nate Cabral’s chest after Danielle’s husband had gynecomastia surgical procedure to take away breast tissue. Danielle responded by throwing one thing at Jennifer, and chaos descended.
The sisters-in-law entered the fray subsequent, with Teresa calling Melissa a “whore” and Melissa saying that Teresa was “white trash.”
The ladies separated for a beat, earlier than Jennifer Fessler determined she had sufficient and left the restaurant.
Teresa set her sights on Margaret, and the ladies argued about timelines because it pertained to Louie and his ex-girlfriend. They each insisted that the opposite had engaged in a smear marketing campaign, earlier than Teresa yelled, “You’re a disgusting human being with no soul.”
That is when final season’s pre-reunion assembly at Margaret’s home got here up. Jackie insisted that the get-together was “all of us showing up to decide how to destroy Louie,” regardless of what she had beforehand mentioned.
Margaret was nonetheless Teresa’s goal, because the latter lady yelled, “You’re full of s**t, that’s why you married the f**king plumber, you disgusting pig.”
Rachel got here to Margaret’s protection, prompting Teresa to go in on Rachel’s husband, John Fuda. Rachel responded by asking Teresa to maintain John’s identify out of her “fat f**king hot dog-lipped mouth.”
Margaret silenced the room subsequent as she claimed that it was Jackie, not her, who invited Louie’s ex into the fray. Teresa did not imagine the declare and Jackie denied it, too. Margaret had receipts, although, as she claimed to have screenshots displaying many cellphone calls between Louie’s ex and Jackie courting again to 2021, in a confessional.
“I met with her,” Jackie finally admitted.
Margaret pounced with that, claiming that it was Jackie, not her, who was behind all of the drama with Louie. Jackie responded by telling Margaret to “shut the f**okay up.”
“No!” Margaret shouted. “You let it come on me!”
In a confessional, Jackie defined her habits.
“Listen, it was February of 2021. That season opened with me and Teresa [at odds]. And the whole world was weighing in on whether or not my husband was cheating on me,” Jackie mentioned of her husband, Evan Goldschneider. “Teresa and Jennifer were calling people, trying to get information on my husband, trying to get pictures of women, and here comes this woman saying, ‘Hey, I got something for you to put in your pocket.'”
“So, if Teresa was to say to me, ‘Well, your husband did this…’ I could say, ‘Well, your husband did this,'” she added. “That’s the game. That’s the game we were playing.”
Margaret proceeded to swear on her son’s life that she by no means planted tales about Louie within the press, insisting it was the “little f**king snake” Jackie all alongside.
Teresa was unmoved, although, and shocked the room by saying that she’s OK with Jackie’s actions.
“I’m not surprised that Jackie talked to this person,” Teresa mentioned in confessional. “I get why she did it, because she thinks I was trying to hurt her with the Evan rumor, which I was — swear on my kids — I was not trying to hurt her.”
Regardless of Teresa’s obvious acceptance of Jackie’s actions, Jennifer predicted that the previous lady could be upset finally.
“I feel like Teresa is giving a pass to Jackie because she doesn’t want to give Margaret the satisfaction that it worked,” Jennifer told the cameras. “However Teresa’s additionally recognized to have delayed response, so when these items course of and settle, I do not know the way OK with this Teresa’s going to be.”
Melissa expressed upset over how the meeting went, calling it a “full failure” in a confessional.
Dolores Catania agreed in a confessional of her personal, stating, “Everyone cuts so deep, like, it is poisonous. I have a look at this sit-down like a dying.”
It is no shock that episode was a dramatic one. The blowout argument is the explanation there will not be a standard reunion for season 14.
“This may all make sense when you see the finale. It’s a type of traditional Jersey finales that individuals can be speaking about for a very long time to come back,” Andy Cohen mentioned throughout an look on SiriusXM’s Actuality Checked With Kiki Monique. “When all of us producers noticed the final lower of the finale, all of us got here to the choice individually after which we talked.”
“It is within the nice custom of absolute stunning, dramatic Jersey finales and so they have this last epic group encounter, which is like, it feels just like the Final Supper and is simply so Jersey,” he added. “And it is stunning and it’s dramatic and it is wonderful TV. I am telling you, whenever you see it, I believe that you just’ll really feel full. I actually do.”
Shortly thereafter, Variety reported that, in lieu of a reunion, the women were split into two groups and placed in two separate rooms at Rails where they watched the finale episode. Teresa’s room included Jennifer and Jackie, while Melissa’s room had Margaret, Danielle and Rachel. Dolores split time between both rooms, the outlet reported.
One final episode of this season of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey airs subsequent Sunday, Aug. 11, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo, that includes the ladies watching again the explosive finale and including behind-the-scenes commentary, in lieu of a standard reunion. Episodes stream the following day on Peacock.
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