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Dolores Catania is setting the file straight after her ex-husband, Frank Catania, urged their son, Frank “Frankie” Catania Jr., wouldn’t be returning to The Actual Housewives of New Jersey for season 14 after being dragged into Luis Ruelas‘ drama on season 13.
Whereas attending a celebration for her cowl of Bella Journal at Avenue in Lengthy Department, New Jersey, on Wednesday, Dolores revealed the place she stands along with her castmates, shared her present relationship with Frank, defined how she stays impartial amid forged feuds, and extra.
“My first celebration within the Hamptons as a housewife was the Bella white celebration, and I met my stylist there, The Type Duo, and so they’ve been dressing me for each reunion, each celebration I’ve ever been to, and so they’re wonderful. They’re a part of Bella,” Dolores advised Actuality Blurb on July 12 of her affiliation with Bella.
Dolores can also be an enormous fan of the publication’s CEO, Vanessa Coppes, saying she loves Vanessa and “all the pieces [she] stands for.”
Though the previous few seasons of RHONJ have been affected by the household drama between Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga, with many of the forged ending up on Crew Teresa or Crew Melissa, Dolores, who’s been featured since season seven in 2016, has efficiently remained impartial — a real feat.
“It’s the way in which I began, and it’s the way in which I’ll finish,” Dolores advised us of her stance. “I all the time stood my floor on my ideas. I’ve by no means seen something so egregious the place I might say, ‘I can’t be your pal due to what you probably did to my different pal.’ That may be actually unhealthy. The issues that they combat about, I feel they’ll get by. So I sort of let all of it fizz out.”
In accordance with Dolores, she discovered throughout a remedy session years in the past that feelings “don’t journey in rational channels.
“I went one time a very long time in the past after I was getting divorced… When persons are emotional, they’re not rational. After they relax, we’ll discuss,” she shared.
And whereas we wished to know all in regards to the upcoming 14th season of RHONJ, Dolores couldn’t say a lot as she and her castmates haven’t but formally begun.
“We’re not there but so we’re simply speaking about it,” she confirmed of the present’s standing.
That mentioned, she feels good about what the brand new season will entail — a minimum of for her.
“I’m okay. Hear, I all the time go into each season beginning over. All the pieces’s left behind me,” she clarified, earlier than including, “[But] I don’t know if all people’s gonna be like that,” probably in reference to Teresa and Melissa’s ongoing beef.
Along with being on good phrases with all of her co-stars, saying, “I’ve a relationship with everybody exterior the present,“ Dolores mentioned she and Frank, who didn’t like how their dynamic shifted amid her relationship with Paul Connell, are in a very good place following their reunion spat.
“We’re good. Hear, nobody will get by issues like me and Frank. We get mad at one another for a second — not even,” she defined.
As for the upcoming season, Dolores mentioned she wasn’t certain if the season 13 newbies, together with Danielle Cabral, Rachel Fuda, and Jennifer Fessler, could be again.
“We don’t know something till we’re really in entrance of the cameras,” she revealed.
Then, relating to Frankie’s potential exit from the present, which Frank spoke of on Tamra Choose and Teddi Mellencamp‘s podcast, claiming Frankie didn’t just like the damaging spin that was placed on his time working alongside Luis, Dolores mentioned we should always take what he says with a grain of salt.
“Oh don’t take heed to Frank. He talks too [much]. The present is a part of our household, and that’s the way in which it’ll keep,” she confirmed.
The Actual Housewives of New Jersey season 14 is anticipated to enter manufacturing in mid-August.
