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Now that The Real Housewives of New Jersey‘s season 15 cast has been unveiled, long-standing OG Teresa Giudice has been doing some interviews.
While Teresa, 54, has completely made up and now hangs out with her former archnemesis Melissa Gorga, 47, she revealed that she did not have as much luck in an attempt to reconcile things with her cousin Kathy Wakile, 61.
In a new interview with Us Magazine, Teresa shared details about what went down.
“Well, Jacqueline [Laurita] speaks to Kathy and told me that Kathy’s daughter was having a baby,” Teresa shared. “I adored Kathy’s kids. I used to hang out with Kathy all the time. So when Jacqueline told me she was pregnant and having a baby, oh my God, I was so happy for her.”
Teresa divulged that she texted Kathy to congratulate her and said she was happy for Kathy’s daughter, Victoria, 32.
“And then I said to her, ‘If you ever want to have lunch, let me know,'” Teresa continued. “She sent me a beautiful text: ‘Thank you so much for reaching out,’ but never responded to the lunch part.”
She noted that Kathy not responding to her olive branch to have lunch was a “blessing in disguise” due to Kathy’s husband, Rich, 62, and Teresa being “like oil and water.”
“So that worked out the way it was supposed to work out,” she added. “Then when we [Melissa and I] got together, Kathy reached out to me again and said, ‘I’m so happy that you guys made up,’ and that’s perfect for me. Because when a lot of time goes by it’s fine.”
Speaking of Melissa, Teresa also spoke with Us Magazine about one of their most famous feuds, which was over Teresa throwing out sprinkle cookies Melissa had brought to her house years ago.
“It was not coming from a bad place at all,” Teresa said. “Like, the whole sprinkle cookie thing. Like, I did not do that, let’s get the record straight. It wasn’t me that threw out the sprinkle cookies.”
Teresa alleged it was her ex-mother-in-law, Filomena Giudice, who actually threw out the cookies, not Teresa.
“She was making fun of [Melissa]. So me, as her nice sister-in-law, I tell her quietly, ‘You know, next time you go to an Italian person’s house, don’t buy cookies from Corrado’s in a plastic container. Go to the bakery and buy pignoli cookies,'” she continued.
While Melissa claimed Teresa’s dad taught her to shop at Corrado’s, Teresa doubled down that she was giving Melissa “good advice” at the time.
“I have the best heart ever,” she noted. “I loved her. I wanted a sister. And then she took it [as an insult] and put it on Facebook, and that’s how she got herself on [The Real Housewives of New Jersey]… And then I guess by me repeating it, it came off that I threw them out because that’s how they put it out there. But I didn’t throw them out. It was my ex-mother-in-law, and I was trying to give her sisterly advice, but she took it the wrong way.”
Aside from talking about her family she’d feuded with, Teresa also recently walked onto a TMZ bus tour and asked for prayers for her daughter, Milania.
As fans know, Milania, 20, recently revealed she has bipolar disorder after a rough year.
After revealing she had visited Washington, D.C., and is trying to get her ex-husband Joe Giudice, 54, to come back to the country after he was deported, Teresa was asked about how Milania is doing.
Teresa shared she’s dealing with it and asked for “lots of prayers.”
The new season of RHONJ is due to premiere in December.