Jackie Goldschneider is getting candid about her friendship with Teresa Giudice after a rocky street.
When requested to explain her friendship with Teresa, 51, the Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 47, solely advised Us Weekly that their bond was “new, growing, and mutually respectful … unexpected.”
“It was really organic,” Jackie advised Us at BravoCon on Saturday, November 4. “It was like we were just talking at a party and then we were talking more, and then we started calling each other and then we hung out and started hugging. We like each other. Yeah, it really grew organically.”
During season 11 of RHONJ, Teresa and Jackie’s friendship was examined after Teresa alleged that Jackie’s husband, Evan Goldschneider, was having an affair. After the season premiered in February 2021, Jackie mirrored on the second throughout an episode of the “Getting Real with the Housewives” podcast.
“She doesn’t even know who told her. I don’t even think anybody told her. I think she pulled it out of her ass,” Jackie stated. “I was really caught off guard because I expect the best from people and I really thought that she was gonna make it right.”
Ahead of the 2021 season, Jackie revealed to Us that the drama virtually induced her to give up the present, however she in the end ended up staying.

Teresa Giudice and Jackie Goldschneider Todd Williamson/Bravo
“My family will always come first and when something threatens that, I take the time I need to make sure that it is something that is for me,” she stated on the time. “I don’t want to end up a statistic. I don’t want to be just another Housewife who ended up divorced.”
But now, the pair appear to be on higher phrases. In September, Jackie solely advised Us that she was in a great place with Teresa.
“All this stuff is in our past, and we both acknowledge that we’ve been through it,” she stated on the time. “We know that we have and we’ve both not been very nice to each other, and it’s OK. It’s OK. We’re through it.”
At BravoCon, Jackie additionally gave Us an replace on her friendship with Margaret Josephs, and she or he stated that it was “very surprising” to her that they don’t seem to be in the perfect place.
“Sometimes friendships … they evolve. They come to an end,” she stated.
In September, Margaret, 56, hinted that there was rigidity between the pair.
“I do love Jackie and her book just came out. It’s powerful. I’m grateful she says so many amazing things about me in the book, and we are bonded and we have a bond,” she advised Us. “For whatever reason, it is not the same right now, but I’m sure it will be.”
The similar month, Jackie launched her memoir, The Weight of Beautiful, the place she mentioned her battle with an consuming dysfunction for practically twenty years. Margaret, for her half, stated she was “moved” by Jackie’s “raw” and “inspiring” story.
Reporting by Christina Garibaldi
Discussion about this post