“Mob Wives” star Renee Graziano is out of rehab and trying to make a difference in other women’s lives.
“I’ve come a long way,” Graziano told Page Six on Thursday. “I still battle with my addiction and my depression and it helps people now. It used to destruct me, but now I work in a rehab called Transitions Recovery. I get people placed.”
Graziano, 48, completed a stay at the Florida-based facility in 2017.
“Domestic violence is one of the biggest things for me,” she added. “I’m hopefully this year going to be speaking in women’s prisons and really just doing outreach work. If only I had a me when I was younger, I would’ve listened to her.”
“If I could save one life, I’ve saved a million,” she said. “That’s really how I feel. If I could just save one — if I could have woman realize she’s in the wrong situation before it’s too late, I’ve done it. It’s the greatest gift.”
In the meantime, she is gearing up for “Mob Wives 2.0,” as she calls it. Although she couldn’t comment on the casting, she told us that the show will be “different because [their] children are grown” from when the VH1 series started in 2011. Most notably, her son AJ, now 24, welcomed son Anthony John with his fianceé Andrea a year ago.
“The real ‘Mob Wives’ are the ones who know we’re a unit,” she added. “We really know what it’s like to go through it. And we’re always going to be there.”
“I’d like to say I’ll take more of a stand like Angela [“Big Ang” Raiola] did, but I am not Angela. I wish I was sometimes. She had this ability to be kind and great to all and I’m just very territorial. I will always be … I just feel like she’s with us.”