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Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Melissa and Joe Gorga appeared on their niece Gia Giudice‘s podcast earlier this week.
While there, the topic of Melissa’s sprinkle cookies came up.
As longtime fans of the show know, sprinkle cookies were always a hot-button topic, as Teresa Giudice revealed Melissa once brought them to her house and she threw them in the garbage. Melissa decided to capitalize on the ordeal years later, starting a sprinkle cookie business in late 2024.
On Casual Chaos, Melissa asked Gia what she thought of her business when it made its debut.
“We weren’t talking at the time I came out with sprinkle cookies,” Melissa stated. “What went through your head? Were you like, ‘What the h*ll is she doing?'”
Gia didn’t hold back with her thoughts, sharing, “I was like, ‘She made a line off of Mom’s line.'”
“That was literally my only thought,” she added. “Then my second thought – ‘She’s killing it.’ I’m not going to s*it on a businesswoman.”
Gia also got candid about her father, Joe Giudice, and the blame she places upon him for getting their family into the legal drama that ended up with him and Teresa serving time.
“I’m older, and I understand it where it’s like, yeah, you f***ed up big time, and you did this to our family,” Gia stated. “Do I feel like this was your intention? Of course not. Do I see him struggle every day? Still yes… But do I now understand from a completely different perspective? 100%.”
Gia also claimed she felt Joe Gorga had a right to be angry at her father.
“You had every right to be mad at my dad,” she noted. “I had every right to be mad. Everyone had a right to be mad.
“And I, looking back on it now in that time, even though I was so angry because I wanted to be protective over him you wanted to be protective over your sister. So that’s where it’s like that double-edged sword where it’s like you win, you can’t win or lose.”
Gia’s family has gone through their share of strife on television and, after years of feuding, her mother, uncle, and aunt are all in a good place.
While on the podcast, Gia asked them if they felt that, if it weren’t for RHONJ, the family feuds wouldn’t have happened. Both Joe and Melissa seemed to indicate there would have still been issues, as Joe shared there was “turmoil” between the family.
“Maybe, maybe not, maybe the show did escalate it a little bit more because we are on national TV,” Joe noted.
Gia also divulged that, aside from the explosive christening of Joe and Melissa’s son, a lot of the “meaningless fights” were “instigated by a lot of people.”
Teresa and Melissa are both being brought back for the next season of RHONJ and, now that they are in a good place for the first time in years, it will be interesting to see what unfolds this season as they navigate the show as not only family members, but as friends.