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Teresa Giudice opened up in regards to the pay she acquired for the debut season of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey on Wednesday’s episode of her new podcast.
After welcoming her former co-stars Jacqueline Laurita, 54, and Kim DePaola, 63, to her present, Teresa, 52, addressed a variety of RHONJ matters, together with the claims made towards her husband Luis Ruelas, 50, her daughter Milania Giudice‘s current automobile accident, and her household feud with Joe and Melissa Gorga, 45, whereas additionally detailing her season one wage.
“It was very low,” Jacqueline famous on the June 19 episode of Turning the Tables as each she and Teresa confirmed their pay was over $20,000.
“[But it was] not that a lot increased,” Teresa clarified. “I keep in mind that first yr was over $10,000 after which like, the garments we purchased… It’s like, what [I] made, I spent. So it was not that a lot. [Joe Giudice]’s like, ‘You didn’t even make any cash.’”
In accordance with Jacqueline, she and her castmates “bought good” earlier than season two started after determining that they had been “speculated to be making a lot extra.”
“[We] bought much more the second season,” she revealed.
Whereas Teresa mentioned she signed on to do the present “for enjoyable,” the previous few seasons have been removed from that for her and her husband, who will probably be becoming a member of her on an upcoming episode of her podcast.
“The previous two seasons, it was exhausting for [Luis] particularly,” she acknowledged. “[And it was] my household that did that to him so I really feel dangerous. However this season, I believe everybody’s gonna see what actually was occurring, that folks had been placing lies on the market.”
Shifting on to daughter Milania and her automobile accident, Teresa admitted her 18-year-old daughter is “so unhappy.”
“I simply bought her a brand-new [$60,000 Mercedes-Benz]. She solely had it for a month and the automobile, the opposite man ran a cease signal and he or she’s so upset however I’m like, ‘Hear. It’s okay. Issues occur in life. We are able to’t be upset over it. We’ve bought to show it right into a optimistic,’” Teresa reasoned. “She’s going to school in two months and I’m like, ‘It’s okay, I’ll take you wherever you need to go. So long as you’re okay, that’s all that issues.’”
Trying again at her upbringing, Teresa mentioned she got here from a “tight-knit Italian household.”
“I don’t know what occurred now. No, I’m kidding. However issues modified when completely different blood got here in,” she continued, seemingly giving a nod to Melissa marrying her little brother.
Teresa additionally mentioned that earlier than she was born, her mom suffered miscarriages. Then, shortly after her mother conceived her, she and her dad moved from Italy to the USA as immigrants.
Though Teresa spoke extremely of her childhood, she admitted that her dad and mom didn’t inform her they cherished her till she was an grownup.
“I’m so into the ‘I like you factor’ as a result of I would like my youngsters to know the way a lot I like them and vice versa. As a result of rising up, my dad and mom by no means instructed me they cherished me. I assume it was an old-school Italian factor,” she suspected. “So once I had youngsters, I simply needed them to all the time know the way a lot I like them. We’re all the time like that. The primary time my dad and mom instructed me they cherished me was when Gia began saying it to them. My youngsters modified my dad and mom.”
Additionally, on the podcast, Teresa and Jacqueline revealed they each undergo from social anxiousness attributable to their roles on RHONJ.
“I used to be very extroverted and preferred to exit quite a bit till the present, after which I grew to become so introverted and so like, I had social anxiousness after I did the present and I didn’t need to go wherever or do something,” Jacqueline shared. “I actually prevented going out. It was actually dangerous till I moved [to California]. Now we exit on a regular basis … [But] while you exit you’re feeling such as you’re in a fishbowl and everybody’s looking at you. It’s very uncomfortable.”
As for Teresa, she mentioned, “That’s how I really feel too .. It’s important to fear about somebody taking an image of you … taking an terrible image of you. Live shows, I get anxiousness. I prefer to be within the suite simply because it’s with lots of people.”
The Actual Housewives of New Jersey season 14 airs Sundays at 8/7c on Bravo.
