Caroline ManzoandTeresa Giudice: not exactly the best of friends.
During Teresa and husband Joe’s bombshell interview withAndy Cohenon Sunday night, an old video of Manzopredicting that Joe would go to prisonand Teresawould divorce himwas shown to the couple.
“It’s just so sad, I guess, like she’s led that crooked life,” said Teresa, 47. “Like, I’ve never led that crooked life. I guess she has and who she comes from and where she came from. Right back at her.”
“How could she predict that?” Teresa asked of her formerReal Housewives of New Jerseycostar. “Could she have anything to do with what happened to Joe and I? Is she a rat? With her saying that? Those words would never come out of my mouth, regarding anybody. Maybe [she called the feds]! Those words would never come out of my mouth.”
As fans recall, Teresa served a little over 11 months in prison for mail, wire and bankruptcy fraud and wasreleasedon Dec. 23, 2015. Joe began his 41-month sentence for the same crimes in March 2016.
On Tuesday, Manzo, 58, responded to Teresa’s allegations on her son’s podcast,Dear Albie.
As for Teresa’s claims? Manzo called them “just ridiculous.”
“She has a narcissistic personality … I get it. I see through her,” she said, explaining how she was able to predict the Giudices’ fate all those years ago. “She has no moral compass. She really doesn’t. She has said things to people that are completely fabricated.”
She also detailed her reaction to “crooked life” dig.
As for the “rat” label? “Did I miss aGodfatherscript somewhere? Who speaks like that?” Manzo joked.
“It’s not even worth me responding to, of course not,” she said. “First of all, I had no knowledge of anything they’ve ever done in their life, you know? At the time, Teresa had had an abundance of legal issues and it was all over the press, and the writing was on the wall that something was going to happen because the indictment was so big. So you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out.”
Also on Tuesday, Manzo toldExtra,“I haven’t seen nor spoke with Teresa in over five and a half years,” before responding to Teresa’s allegations of being “a rat.”
“That term is so archaic it’s just laughable … I don’t know why, I think it’s just a matter to have to deflect in her life that she is incapable of laying blame on herself or anybody around her, so she has to deflect,” Manzo said. “I think I am, in her mind, the easiest target, so go for it — whatever.”
Manzo also explained how she correctly predicated that the couple would one day have to serve jail time.
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“Yeah, but you don’t have to be a genius to predict that,” she said. “The writing was on the wall. You just have to look at the personality and, you know, look at the actions and everything.”
“I don’t have any special powers. I wish I did. I’d play the lottery,” Manzo joked.
The day after Teresa and Joe’s interview, Manzo, who has not appeared on the Bravo series since season 5, teased her fans that she would bespeaking out soonabout the accusations. The family matriarch shared a series of three photos and videos on Instagram. In the first, she posed with a podcast microphone, tagging her son Albie Manzo’s podcast account,Dear Albie.
The next slide showed a video of Manzo set up with the podcasting equipment as theWhitney Houstonsong “If You Say my Eyes Are Beautiful” played — a reference to Joe’s awkward compliment about his wife’s eyes during the interview.
In the last slide of her Instagram, Manzo spoke directly to her followers in her kitchen, making fun of Joe’s grammatical error. “I don’t typically dance and sing this early in the morning, but I have to laugh. I couldn’t find the word ‘beautifulest’ anywhere, I’m sorry,” she said. “But you’ll be hearing from me soon.”
“Umm, the answer is … we did speak the other day. I would say that she is not pleased and I would say that you will probably be hearing from her in some capacity. Soon,” he said onAndy CohenLive.
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When the caller asked if theRHONJOG would come ontoWatch What Happens Liveto discuss, Cohen suggested she’d be speaking out in another forum.
“Umm, I don’t know about that,” he said. “If she wanted to come on she is always welcome. But, I think … I can’t imagine she wouldn’t respond in some way to this.”
Teresa had previously accused Manzo and theirRHONJcostar Jacqueline Laurita (also Manzo’s sister-in-law) of being behind the government’s investigation into her family’s finances. Both have denied those claims.
source: people.com
