Teresa Giudice’s eldest daughterGiabutted heads with her own uncle onThe Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Tuesday’s episode picked up with the fight betweenJennifer AydinandMargaret Josephsat Teresa’s pool party. Jennifer, 44, eventually left the gathering with her husband,Bill Aydin, after Margaret, 54, confronted her abouthis past affair.
Joe then opened the floor for Gia to raise her issues with him, which led her to say: “I’m done with you being disrespectful.”
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“I am not disrespectful,” said Joe as Gia responded, “You’re not gonna talk down to me, either.”
Joe took issue with how Gia was speaking to him, saying he’d “never allow” for his daughter to address their aunt or uncle in that way. Added Joe, “Where were you raised?”
As Joe stood up from his seat, he called Gia’s behavior “horrendous.” Before walking off, Joe said: “I loved you since the minute I saw you.”
“I haven’t seen you in six months,” added Gia. “I don’t even know what you’re doing right now.”
Gia Giudice and Teresa Giudice.Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty
Joe then informed his wife,Melissa Gorga, that he was leaving the party. When Gia explained what happened to Melissa, her aunt accused her of laughing off the situation and advised her to apologize to him.
“I’m not laughing it off. Don’t get me aggravated now,” Gia replied.
“Look at me. He loves you like he loves [our daughter] Antonia,” Melissa said. “He understands that your dad comes first, but he doesn’t understand. You know what I’m saying? He dies for you.”
Gia then chose to go find him and talk things through. Teresa and Melissa, in turn, followed closely behind to make sure nothing else went wrong.
Outside of the party, Teresa’s fiancé,Luis “Louie” Ruelas, caught up to Joe to speak with him separately. Joe said of Gia: “She looks at me like I’m the devil. Their father was the devil, not me!”
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As Gia approached him, Joe immediately questioned whether she was going to “disrespect” him again.
“Here’s my problem. I’ve been dealing with this for 20 years,” he said. “I don’t want to feel like I’m this devil of a man for doing what? I stuck up for my sister. I stuck up for my parents.”
Gia chimed in, “Don’t bring up my Nana, same with your parents. Why would you ever want to say that about them?”
“Because it’s true, sorry,” added Joe.
“It’s not,” Gia said before walking off. “That’s when I walk away.”
Upon returning with Melissa’s encouragement, Joe explained his issue with their intense spat. “You, at 21 years old, should be like, ‘Yes, I understand,’ because you know what? That happened to my sister, but that happened to the [family],” he said.
While Gia understood Joe’s sentiment and acknowledged that he had “every right” to take issue with her father for putting Teresa in jail, she argued: “You don’t think he’s mad at himself? He lives with it every day. He’s not even in this country.”
“But it comes to a point where the bashing is just too much,” she added. “This is also me defending my sisters, too, because they’ve been through enough. The jail thing happened five years ago. Let it go under the bridge.”
Concluding her point, Gia said: “I just want, moving forward, for it to just be, like, done. Like, I never want to not see you for six months. That’s insane.”
Joe, in turn, agreed to squash the situation and told Gia that he loved her. The pair then hugged it out.
In a confessional, Gia said she’s “going to try to move on” from the pair’s blowout argument.
The Real Housewives of New Jerseyairs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
source: people.com
