Teresa Giudice: The Real Reason I Didn't Do Season 4 'RHONJ' Promotion

Don’t believe the scurrilous reports on the Internet that there was so much bad blood between RHONJ cast member Teresa Giudice and the rest of the New Jersey Housewives, that they couldn’t even be in the same room together for promos. Hollywoodlife.com spoke to Teresa and got the real story.

Yes, there’s been plenty of drama between Teresa Giudice and her Real Housewives of New Jersey cast mates, Caroline Manzo, Kathy Wakile, Jacqueline Laurita and Melissa Gorga during several show seasons, BUT that’s not the reason that Teresa has been MIA from the pre-season promo work.

The truth, Teresa Giudice told Hollywoodlife.com exclusively, is very simple, straight forward and drama-free. “My new book, Fabulicious!: Fast & Fit, is coming out May 15 and I need to do press for it on TV shows, but you can’t get booked for the same shows within a span of three weeks,” she explained .

“I really need to go on the shows to promote my cookbook and both our RHONJ network, Bravo and the shows producers are fine with me missing the RHONJ promotions, they understand,” she added.

FYI, Teresa has NOT we repeat NOT written about any of the other New Jersey Housewives in her new cookbook, she tells us. She saw how her mention of Caroline Manzo, in her first cookbook, Fabulicious!, went over like a lead balloon.

“I wasn’t saying anything malicious about Caroline or anyone else in the cookbook, and I’m sincerely sorry that I offended Caroline. I really like her,” Teresa told us. “I was joking in my cookbook.”

In fact, Teresa says she apologized to all the New Jersey Housewives about her cookbook. “It takes a year to write a cookbook. It came out last May and relationships had soured in the interim,” she says.

“Drama,” she hopes is now in her past.

“Being on Celebrity Apprentice changed my life,” she says. “I learned that there’s more important things in life, than drama. There are children that need your help.”

Teresa met a sweet 7-year-old boy, Mathew Levine, who is suffering from a debilitating and rare kidney disease, called Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). “It broke my heart. He’s a beautiful boy, who looks healthy on the outside but very sick on the inside,” she relates. She decided to take up his cause and raised $60,000 on Celebrity Apprentice for NephCure.org, the only organization exclusively devoted to supporting research for FSGS.

“All the drama of the Housewives is nothing next to this. I want to raise money and awareness,” says Teresa. “Life is too short for drama.”

Now, as for what Teresa wants to do in the fifth season of RHONJ – it’s all about “working on resolution with my friends and family.”

In the meantime, season four of the Real Housewives of New Jersey kicks off this coming Sunday, April 22 at 10 p.m. Tune in! I will!

Bonnie Fuller

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Teresa has serious mental health issues. She goes from 0 to 60 in 2 seconds flat. Her constant rage and flipping out over nothing is getting old and makes watching the show unbearable anymore.

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I liked you when the show first came on. Now I cant stand you. You are a bully and want control of every ones family and what they do.
You are not a roll modile for your kids at all.
I wish they would take you off the show.

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Teresa is so blind, her children are brats, her husband is short, fat and nasty..she wants to be a perfect wife, mom and daughter but all she is perfect at is pulling the covers over her head in denial of her crappy life..As an italian woman myself, I would be ashamed if she was related to me..

amen sister.she thinks she’s the hottest thing on the show. joe is disgusting, they deserve each other.

I couldn’t agree more. Theresa needs to mind her own business and work on teaching her kids how to behave both at home and in public! Theresa is just jealous of her brother’s wife and the fact that she isn’t number one in his life. She seriously needs therapy.

I was not that familiar with NJHW’s until the marathon this weekend. I could not stand Teresa and her husband. However, after watching her on Celebrity Apprentice last night, I was astounded. She barely spoke and obeyed the very bright project manager. What gives? While filming and curbing her tongue, I can imagine how loud she is when she gets home. I don’t believe being soft spoken is in her DNA. I do like her cousin, Kathy. What a contrast in dispositions.

I have only seen 4 episodes of this Housewives series, and I do not understand why people like Teresa. Maybe drama=likeable, but the woman seems like a nut. On top of that, her husband is a jerk and her kids could use super nanny or something because they def. run the show and ugh, I do not get this woman’s appeal. lol I think most of the Housewives are trash anyhow, but it’s amazing how anyone these days can become a celebrity. Sad world we live in…

Teresa looks like a trout and is a useless human being. i hate the show but hate seeing her even more on the internet. everywhere i look its either her, snookie or a kardashian. Arent we sick of these reality stars yet, and i use the word stars very lightly.

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Teresa u r seriously demented and it’s getting boring, u think it’s all about u god look around the beautiful woman inside and out ur the opposite and yes where is Dina

I love you on Celebrity Appretice

U go go girl ! U would be the ONLY reason I’d wath that show.
UR family coming on board destroyed the entire mix. And now the Manzo’s have flipped with their southern blubber.
BORING Bring back Dina

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