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Dolores Catania revealed there was a tiff between Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga amid The Real Housewives of New Jersey season 15 while appearing on the Housewife2Housewife: Coast2Coast panel at Bravo Fan Fest on Saturday.
As she also shared her status with Teresa, 54, and Melissa, 47, and as Melissa explained her and Teresa’s dispute, Dolores, 55, spoke of the new vibe of season 15 and confirmed there will be drama amongst the series’ newbies, which reportedly include Xiomara Laracuente, Juliette Collazo, Natia Rufolo, Vanessa Barrera, and Deeba Patel.
“They get in a little tiff here and there because that’s normal, right?” Dolores asked of Teresa and Melissa on October 24, via The Daily Dish.
She said that her relationship with both women has been “so good.”
“It’s a breath of fresh air, as Teresa would say,” she said. “It is just so nice. It’s so peaceful. It’s zen. And I’ve wanted this for a long time … I know Teresa and Melissa for 20-plus-years, none of us have ever changed.”
Regarding what is to come on the new season, Dolores described the episodes as “different.”
“It’s different. There’s different girls, I know you’re all going to love them. And it was a fun season, but it had enough of everything,” she stated. “They have their drama, too. Women have drama. They brought it.”
“It’s new girls, it’s different dynamics, and what you haven’t seen in prior seasons is Teresa and Melissa getting along,” she added.
During another moment of Bravo Fan Fest, Melissa chatted with Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea, explaining what led to the “tiff” between her and Teresa and adding that they handled the discourse well.
“I think we handled it well. It wasn’t so much about her and I. It was our opinion on something,” she disclosed. “So I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no,’ and then she said, ‘Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.’ And I was like, ‘Really? You’re gonna agree with this?’ So it was one of those things.”
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Earlier this month, during an interview with Us Magazine, Teresa and Melissa spoke of their reconciliation.
“It was really hard to swallow a lot of the things. She has her reasons, and that’s just why we were where we were for so long because I couldn’t swallow a lot of things, and neither could [she],” Melissa shared.
Teresa then stated that they began to mend things after she reached out to her brother, Joe Gorga, 52.
“I texted my brother. I just wanted peace for my daughters because I never wanted them to say to me, ‘Practice what you preach,’” she said. “I can never say to my kids, ‘Don’t fight,’ because then they’re gonna be like, ‘Look what you did,’ you know?”
The Real Housewives of New Jersey season 15 premieres on Bravo this December.