Rachel Fuda accused Teresa Giudice of being a gaslighter after she called her husband, John, “the biggest drug dealer” during the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” Season 14 premiere.
“It’s manipulation and gaslighting at its pinnacle. You have to be kidding me,” Fuda, 33, slammed while speaking to Page Six’s Evan Real and Danny Murphy during Thursday’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” live podcast taping at Chelsea Table & Stage in New York City.
“So you throw this fuel on this fire and then you turn around and say, ‘But I think he’s a great dad and he’s a great husband,’” she added at the show, which was presented by Tri-State Cadillac.
Giudice, 51, attempted to put out the flames from her drug dealer accusation during Sunday’s “RHONJ” episode by complimenting John’s parenting.
“You don’t get to make judgments about anybody. He’s my husband. He’s fantastic,” Rachel continued.
“He’s a fantastic father and he is a successful businessman who has built his life to what it is now and you are taking his life and you are manipulating his story.”
Further defending her husband, she added, “I’m proud of him. I’m proud of his accomplishments and I’m proud of what we’ve achieved as a family.”
John, 37, also spoke to Page Six at the “Virtual Reali-Tea” live taping and expressed his bewilderment that Giudice would drag his name through the mud.
“I’m really disgusted with her actions because I think she’s been through it,” he explained. “So she should know by putting a varsity letter on me, how messed up that is considering I’m taking care of three children and my wife. Why would you hit my business? I’m not a main character.”
Giudice’s beef with Rachel and John started after the latter accused Giudice’s husband, Luis “Louie” Ruelas, of hiring a private investigator to look into his past during the “RHONJ” Season 13 reunion, which aired in May 2023.
Ruelas claimed during the Season 13 finale that one of his “best friends” and “one of the most famous private investigators in the country” Bo Dietl voluntarily brought him information on “everyone” in the cast.
However, he then claimed he lied about the entire situation during an episode of “Watch What Happens Live.”
“I was at the end of my rope,” he reasoned. “It was a long season.”
Furthermore, Dietl exclusively told Page Six he had “never ever done any investigative work against any cast members of the ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey.’”
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Relations between Giudice, Ruelas and the Fudas appear to worsen throughout Season 14, despite Giudice’s attempt to lighten things up following her remarks about John.
The season premiere’s cold open showed Rachel screaming at Giudice to leave her husband’s name out of her “hot-dog-lipped mouth.”
Fans can catch the drama unfold every Sunday on Bravo at 8 p.m. ET.
