Jacqueline Says Caroline “Not Well” After RHUGT Drama

Jacqueline Laurita appeared on former Real Housewives of New Jersey producer Carlos King‘s podcast on Monday, the place she supplied an replace on Caroline Manzo.

Weeks after Caroline was reportedly touched in an inappropriate method by Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Brandi Glanville on the set of Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip season 4, Jacqueline admitted her sister-in-law is “not well” earlier than opening up about the way in which by which Melissa Gorga and Kathy Wakile joined RHONJ and searching again on her lunch date with Teresa Giudice and Luis Ruelas.

“I actually just reached out to her,” Jacqueline confirmed on the February 20 episode of Reality With The King. “I reached out to her when stuff happened with Brandi. I know there’s a lot she can’t talk about right now.”

When Carlos wished to understand how Caroline was doing after her reported encounter with Brandi, which allegedly resulted in Brandi being despatched residence early, Jacqueline revealed Caroline is “not well.”

“It was very traumatizing,” Jacqueline acknowledged. “I didn’t push it too much. I just wanted to know she was okay because originally … I thought she like beat her up or something happened … I think it’s been hard for her.”

Moving on to the neverending saga of how Melissa joined RHONJ, Jacqueline mentioned she didn’t know that Melissa had allegedly reached out to producers however discovered later that she had contacted Danielle Staub to inform her “stuff.”

“I remember Melissa was scared about that at one point. She didn’t want Danielle to come out with what she had said to her and she didn’t tell me what she said to her but I can imagine what it all was,” Jacqueline acknowledged.

According to Jacqueline, she believes producers have been intrigued by Teresa being so anti-Melissa, particularly after seeing the sisters-in-law feud on Facebook over sprinkle cookies and listening to Teresa inform her castmates to not movie together with her.

“Teresa always used to say while we were mic’d, ‘Don’t talk to Melissa. She just wants her face on camera.’ She knew what Melissa was about so she didn’t want her being noticed and on camera,” Jacqueline defined.

But regardless of her efforts, as followers effectively know, Melissa was finally dropped at the solid.

“It was about a week before filming when [Teresa] found out … I remember the Christening was going to be the first scene they filmed. So Teresa was like ‘I’m not doing the show. I’m not filming with them,’” Jacqueline recalled. “She was so against it.”

Although Jacqueline suggested Teresa to make amends with Melissa and Joe previous to the beginning of filming on RHONJ season three, Teresa didn’t achieve this. Instead, as she held out on signing her contract, she deliberate to behave like nothing was incorrect.

“She kinda thought, ‘I’m just gonna act like nothing’s wrong on camera,’ and she went over to put her arms around them like, ‘Hey guys,’ and then they were like, ’Now you’re being nice to us?’” she revealed. “They called her out on camera. If they wanted to come on the show and be peaceful, why do that?”

Looking again, Jacqueline mentioned Melissa and Joe have been adamant about not wanting to harm Teresa — all whereas they performed sufferer to her.

“They had a lot of stories about how Teresa treated them and a lot of things … I think they were upset that they weren’t included on her show when she was on the show and so now they’re like, ‘We’re gonna get on our own way,’” she suspected.

And though Kathy joined the solid on the identical time, Jacqueline defended the way in which she did so, claiming she by no means supposed to shock her cousin, Teresa, together with her addition.

“[Kathy] didn’t say anything at first to Teresa because she didn’t even know if they were gonna pick her and she didn’t want to go through the whole interview process and then not get on it and have to be like, ‘They didn’t pick me to be on your show,’” Jacqueline defined. “She was gonna tell Teresa but then she had gone away first. They were trying to decide, ‘Are we really doing this?’ And then when she got back, Teresa had already found out.”

Years after the drama of season three, and after years of turmoil, Jacqueline loved a lunch date with former castmate Teresa, which she credit, partially, to Andy Cohen.

“Andy Cohen kept bringing up my name on Watch What Happens Live like with Teresa, ‘I think it’s time to end that war,’ and he would say little things like, bringing me up and I heard her in a few different things where she was saying like, she would talk to me,” Jacqueline revealed. “I knew it was there but I didn’t want to reach out because I didn’t want to get back into that world.”

But then one morning, Jacqueline woke as much as a textual content from Teresa, who mentioned she was coming to Las Vegas and hoped to satisfy.

“She was like, ‘You can bring Chris. I’m gonna have Luis.’ I sat up and I like, had to look at it again. I was in such shock and I showed Chris. I’m like, ‘Teresa wants to meet for coffee. What do you think?’ And Chris was like, ‘You should sit down. It’s been a long time. I think you should sit down and talk, hear her out. See what she has to say,’” Jacqueline shared. “And so we agreed to meet with her.”

“I was excited to see her and it was just weird when I saw her … We literally almost, it was almost like running towards each other to hug each other. And we just started talking like no time had passed and we didn’t even really address the old issues,” she continued. “We were just catching each other up on everything.”

While many felt that Jacqueline’s reconciliation with Teresa was prompted by the detrimental feedback Jacqueline made publicly about Melissa, Jacqueline confirmed there was not “another motive.”

“[Teresa] was very genuine and just so sweet,” Teresa insisted. “We both kinda just said, during the time of the show, we were both going through things in our lives that was very stressful. We had a lot of pressure being on the show, not only from producers but people in our ears from people on the cast, or outside influences and stuff, so when you have a lot of people in your ears and you’re under a lot of stress and things are happening on the show, you don’t really know who to trust. It’s very hard to make up and maintain a friendship on a show like that.”

And though she and Teresa didn’t go away off in the very best place on RHONJ, Jacqueline mentioned her latest encounter with Teresa confirmed a “very different” facet of her from what followers see on tv.

“She was much more humbled, very sweet, her demeanor was very different. She reminded me of the old Teresa,” Jacqueline famous. “I was very happy to see her. We picked up like no time had passed and [were] just laughing, talking, [and] catching up. Gabriella called … so I got to see her. It was just really nice.”

As for her ideas on Luis, Jacqueline mentioned that whereas she’d “heard things” about him from different individuals previous to assembly him, she discovered him to be the “nicest person.”

“He was very caring and upbeat and positive. He was like, ’Teresa’s been wanting to reach out to you for a long time and I’m glad she did it’ so that made me happy,” she revealed.

Jacqueline then famous that whereas she and Teresa have made up quite a few instances, she thinks “this time is for good.”

Jacqueline Laurita was featured on the primary seven seasons of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, though her season six position was that of a “friend.”