Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola is shedding extra mild on her previous beef with Jersey Shore costar Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi.
Sammi, 36, declined to take part when the MTV franchise was rebooted as Jersey Shore: Family Vacation in 2018. She additional distanced herself from her Jersey Shore days by quickly blocking Snooki, 35, on social media as a result of she thought Snooki was stealing her enterprise thought, which she later realized wasn’t true.
“Me and Nicole totally worked through our issues,” Sammi solely instructed Us Weekly on Thursday, August 3, whereas selling season 6B of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, which premieres Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on MTV.
Sammi went on to elucidate that when Snooki opened a store location in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, she thought Snooki was “doing something similar” to what she’d carried out together with her Sweetheart Coast storefront on the Ocean City, New Jersey boardwalk. “But that was not the case,” she mentioned. “So, in the end, I actually was wrong and I told her, ‘I’m sorry. I know you weren’t trying to copy off me.’”
The Sweetheart Styles founder — who will make her return to actuality TV after an 11-year hiatus in season 6B of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation — added that her resolution to “exclude herself” from the good friend group for some time was a “personal thing” that had “nothing to do with” her costars.
“They just didn’t understand why I did that. So, it was just definitely miscommunication, which you’ll see all go down when we see each other again [on the show],” she mentioned after noting that she didn’t blame the group for being upset together with her. “I really had to block some things out of my life in order to move forward or move in a different direction. So, I kind of get why they might be upset.”
Snooki and Jennifer “JWoww” Farley, in the meantime, shared how they felt concerning the state of affairs throughout a Tuesday, August 2, interview with Page Six. “She owned it and I got over it quick,” JWoww, 37, mentioned. “We were hurt and confused [at the time], but … we’re so happy to have her back and be able to move on from that.”
Snooki added that she and Sammi had a “nice conversation” about their retailer drama. “I’m not the type of woman to compete against my friends by opening other stores,” she mentioned. “No one was copying anyone. And we’re all allowed to open stores. Like, no one should be upset about that. It’s, like, little kid stuff.”
In addition to reconnecting with Snooki and JWoww, Sammi additionally crossed paths with ex-boyfriend Ronnie Ortiz-Magro whereas filming the brand new season. She instructed Us that whereas working with Ronnie, 37, once more was “definitely nerve-wracking,” she went into the expertise understanding she might “handle it.”
The pair dated on and off from 2009 to 2014, and the OG Jersey Shore documented the ups and downs of their rocky relationship. Ronnie beforehand introduced that he was stepping again from the MTV franchise to give attention to his psychological well being in May 2021, one month after he was arrested and launched on a $100,000 bond following a home violence dispute. He was finally not charged with a criminal offense and returned to the present the next August.
Although Sammi instructed Us that Ronnie is “part of the family too,” she famous that they’ll “probably not” be pals once more. “We’re coworkers. You’re just somebody I dated in my twenties. … He’s working on himself to be a better person, that’s all that matters.”
Season 6B of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation premieres Thursday, August 3, on MTV at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
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