Teresa Giudice fires back at ‘RHONJ’ co-star Rachel Fuda over ‘manufactured’ friendships claim
Teresa Giudice is firing back at her “Real Housewives of New Jersey” nemesis Rachel Fuda for claiming the series OG’s allegedly fake friendships have ruined the Bravo show.
“Why is she so obsessed with me???” Giudice commented on Page Six’s Instagram post about our interview with Fuda.
We caught up with the latter after Sunday’s “Off the Rails” special, which replaced a traditional reunion for Season 14 due to the divided state of the Garden State girls.
Fuda, 33, watched the finale back with pals Melissa Gorga, Margaret Josephs, Danielle Cabral and Jennifer Fessler in one room of Rails Steakhouse in Towaca, NJ, while Giudice, 52, Jennifer Aydin and Jackie Goldschneider viewed the episode from another.
Dolores Catania, meanwhile, moved between both rooms.
“We have true relationships with each other, and I think that’s the thing that was so unique about our room for the watch party,” Fuda said on the latest episode of Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast.
She went on to draw a comparison between “true relationships versus manufactured relationships.”
“I feel like when you were watching our room, it’s like a group of friends bantering, making comments, gasping, laughing, like, all those little things that we would do if we were sitting on my living room couch — and we have done,” she explained.
The Bravolebrity — who dropped her pregnancy bombshell at the end of Sunday’s special — believes Aydin and Goldschneider, both 47, are merely accomplices in Giudice’s perceived plan to take down her onscreen adversaries.
“You watch the other room and it’s like, ‘OK, Teresa, what’s the narrative now? What are we going to say? What do we have to prove now?’ It’s just very manufactured now, in my opinion,” Fuda said of the reality program.
“I think that’s the biggest problem. I think our show is truly lacking authenticity in its relationships and friendships.”
As “RHONJ” remains in flux after reaching a dead end, network honcho Andy Cohen has promised a reboot of some kind.
