The third — and final — part of the Real Housewives of New Jersey season 4 reunion unraveled in a rather tearful, truthful and emotional way. From screaming to crying, the final installment was a dramatic ending — to say the least.

The Truth About Joe Giudice’s Financial Troubles

The third part of the reunion kicked off by discussing Joe Giudice’s financial woes. Teresa Giudice made it known that she was mad because her family discussed his incarceration on TV when she asked them not too. But host/moderator Andy Cohen interrupted and asked Teresa why it was such a big deal that they discussed it on TV when she was talking about it in magazine interviews all throughout the season. Good point, Andy!

Not to our dismay, Teresa’s response lacked a sensible answer. Then Joe and Teresa went on to say that while Joe is facing 10 years in jail, they’ll “cross that bridge” when the time comes because they aren’t worried. After commercial break, the rest of the husbands join their wives for what must have been the most dramatic reunion in all of Bravo history.

Joe Gorga Faces Teresa For The First Time In A Year

Joe Gorga hasn’t seen his sister since the dramatic Posche fashion show throwdown that happened nearly a year ago. But after a video montage of Joe Gorga showing his penis on TV, Joe goes head-to-head with his brother-in-law.

“It makes me sick that I even have to be here to look at ya,” Joe Giudice says to Joe Gorga.

The two start fighting and Joe Gorga reveals their fight began years ago over tools. Andy asks Joe Gorga if his relationship with his sister has always been full of tension – and his reply is no, but they’ve been fighting for a while now.

“We had our issues way before this show,” Joe Gorga says.

Andy starts to ask if everyone can just get a long because Joe Giudice could end up behind bars, and everyone starts yelling after Teresa says Melissa Gorga got in the way of their relationship. But then the fight spotlight turns to Joe and Joe again when Joe Giudice asks Joe Gorga how he met his wife.

“Shut the f***k up about my wife. I laugh about you every day. You bum. Why don’t you pay your bills?” Joe Gorga yells to Joe Giudice.

Once the boys cool down, Joe Gorga reveals a shocking truth amid the season’s stripper claims. Joe was actually the one who took off his clothes back in the day — he was a dancer at Chippendales!

“I had a G-string as an outfit,” he says.

The Moment of Truth

Once again we are brought to the fight that ended it all: the Posche Fashion show. Teresa says for the millionth time that she didn’t call Melissa a stripper, but then she gets into a fight with Jacqueline  Laurita and stands up and screams at her. Fortunately, there wasn’t a table in sight.

Not too long after Kim D. enters to tell the truth about that dramatic night.

“She [Teresa] did not know this man [Angelo] was going to mention anything about Melissa’s past,” Kim D. says.

Kim reveals that Angelo was at the salon and once she found out the news that he knew Melissa, she called Teresa to get her in on the scheme – without Teresa knowing exactly what was going on.

“Now we can all agree it was a setup,” Melissa says.

But Caroline Manzo intervenes and reveals that Kim said that Teresa knew something was going to happen.

“Did she know something was going to go down, yes, but did she know exactly, no,” Kim says, adding that she knew the target was Melissa though.

“She did not know what it was about,” Kim says.

Then Andy asks Joe Gorga if he sees a future with his sister.

“I don’t know. It’s tough,” Joe says. “I didn’t just lost my sister; I lost my parents.”

“Just be happy,” Teresa says as she cries and speaks to her brother. “Just be happy.”

Chris chimes in and says that he knows Joe Gorga wants his sister back and this is all a bunch of “bull s**t.”

The reunion concluded with Caroline Manzo giving her finals words of wisdom.

“I know one day we’ll be sitting around, all of us, all of us, and we’ll say remember when. You can’t have this much pain without love,” Caroline says.

Hmm! It was definitely a dramatic ending to a dramatic season.

What did YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Weigh in and vote below.

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An understandably very emotional part of the Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion was when Jacqueline Laurita broke down in tears when talking about her autistic son, Nicholas. And despite what former BFF Teresa Giudice says about being there for her — she wasn’t, according to Jacqueline. 

“My son has been regressing while we were filming and I was doing a lot of crying,” Jacqueline tells Us Weekly. “If I went to talk about my son, she would quickly change the subject and start bashing her family. Despite what she’s claiming on TV, she wasn’t there when I needed her the most.”

But Teresa also told Us that she did reach out to Jacqueline when she found out about her son!

It’s clearly been a rough year for Jacqueline, and we’re sure she would have loved to have her friend around during this difficult time with her son.

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Whose side are YOU on? Weigh in and vote below!

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Part one of the Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion got ugly on September 30 — but it’s about to get even uglier on part 2. However, Teresa Giudice writes on her own personal Bravo blog that she won’t be exposing any of the other housewives’ secrets — unlike what they’ve done to her.

“It was a struggle because they attack me so viciously and yet they have their own skeletons, their own public scandals and newspaper articles and financial problems that don’t get discussed on the show, because I won’t discuss them. They do it to me, but I won’t do it back,” Teresa writes.

“I’m not proud of everything I said at the reunion, but I am proud of the things I DIDN’T say. As they were yelling at me, I kept reminding myself not to say this or that about their private lives, I kept thinking about Dina and her and Caroline’s mom, Nettie, and family stuff I did not want them to hear me say.”

Teresa isn’t exactly on good terms with the housewives — and that became very clear during part one of the reunion.  If she really does know the other wives’ scandalous secrets, they should be counting their lucky stars she didn’t reveal them!

Tre went on to say in her blog post that she had no idea what the other women were plotting against her.

“I do never know what crazy angle the other women are going to take at me, so my strategy is to sit there and be as calm and mature as I can,” she writes.

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Do YOU think Teresa should expose the other New Jersey housewives’ secrets? Weigh in and vote below!

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Like Andy Cohen said, part one of the Real Housewives of New Jersey season four reunion was just the tip of the iceberg! Part two not only focuses on the wives, but the husbands, too!

And in this revealing preview Jacqueline Laurita touches on the elephant in the room: Joe Giudice‘s alleged cheating.

“You [Teresa] walked in on your husband when he had somebody on the desk in his office,” Jacqueline says to Teresa Giudice when she’s sitting next to her husband.

Did your jaw just drop?

In case you don’t remember, Joe Giudice received a very suspicious phone call when the group was vacationing in California. It clearly was another woman, but Joe told Teresa it was someone from work — after referring to her as his “b***h wife.”

Host/moderator Andy touches on the subject and asks Joe if it was “a girlfriend” on the phone. We wonder if he’ll finally fess up? Hmm!

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Do YOU think Joe Giudice will finally clear the air about his alleged affair? Watch the video and weigh in below!

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Part one of the Real Houswives of New Jersey reunion was apparently the tip of the iceberg for the three-part throwdown. But from Lauren Manzo swearing at Teresa Giudice to the always-poised Kathy Wakile going crazy on Tre, we can’t imagine it getting much worse!

Flashback: Season 3 Reunion

The reunion kicked off by discussing the season 3 reunion — which Jacqueline Laurita didn’t go to. Of course, that was the big question: WHY didn’t she show up to the reunion?

We learned at the end of the season 4 finale that it was because Jacqueline was on the verge of a breakdown, but there was a tidbit more to the story. Jacqueline was apparently “so sick” of Teresa’s Posche fashion show set-up that she couldn’t bear to see her again! Teresa wastes no time to battle back and shouts that she never planted Angelo who revealed that Melissa Gorga used to “dance” for him — which wasn’t true.

“Prove it b***h,” Teresa screams to Jacqueline.

Jacqueline goes on to attack Teresa and say that she has a recording of one of Teresa’s friends revealing that Teresa did in fact set up Melissa at the fashion show, but that it’s “illegal” to share that recording on the reunion. Hmm! So, guess she did?

Moderator/host Andy Cohen asks if Teresa has seen the other housewives since the Posche fashion show last year and she says “no,” she hasn’t — except for Melissa at her daughter’s birthday party. Then in some crazy way Teresa says that she has never spoken badly about her brother or Melissa and that totally throws Jacqueline over the edge. Andy is understandably upset and just keeps on saying “I want to move on.”

And so do we!

Jacqueline’s Relationship With Her Daughter Ashley Today

Teresa wasn’t the only drama in Jacqueline’s life; she was also going through a tough time with her daughter, Ashley Holmes. Jacqueline says that she’s never been happier with Ashley, but then Andy asks about Jacqueline’s financial woes.

Andy then asks Jacqueline about her austistic son, Nicholas, and proceeds to play a very emotional montage which ends with him saying “I Love you.” The cameras are back on Jacqueline as she’s bawling into Caroline’s lap.

“He’s going to say it again,” Caroline tells Jacqueline as she rubs her back.

Teresa says “she doesn’t understand” which triggers Caroline to tell Teresa to “shut up” many, many times.

The Truth About The California Trip

Even though it seemed like everything was OK between Jacqueline and Teresa in Cali — it wasn’t. Jacqueline took to the reunion to reveal that she heard Teresa talking about her when the cameras weren’t rolling.

“I overheard you say [to Melissa] ‘I hate Jacqueline I can’t even look at her f-ing face,’” Jacqueline says.

“So what caused this break-up?” Andy asks.

“All you cared about was exposing them. You wanted me to call her [Melissa] out that she was a stripper,” Jacqueline says to Teresa.

Jacqueline goes on to say that that was the only reason Tre was happy to have Melissa and Kathy on the show — so she could expose who they really are!

“I never called her a stripper,” Teresa shoots back, leading Jacqueline to scream at Teresa and tell her she’s “sick” and “going to hell.”

“Any hope of getting back to that place [in Nappa]? Andy asks.

“I just don’t know. I don’t know,” Teresa says.

Jacqueline doesn’t even say anything.

Lauren Manzo’s Shocking Weight Loss

The focus turns to Caroline Manzo who’s been suffering through menopause and had a lot going on with her kids this season. Then low and behold Lauren Manzo — who just had the lap band surgery — walks on to the stage 35 pounds skinnier. We must say she looks great!

Everyone is talking about how great Lauren looks until Teresa chimes in and criticizes the surgery.

“That’s my problem not yours,” Lauren screams to Teresa.

The Return of Rosie

The focus shifts to Kathy and Andy says that her husband, Richie, has been mean to Tre — but she doesn’t care.

“All these people here are insignificant to me, I don’t give a sh**. But I have it outlined every single thing Richie has said about me [on TV],” Teresa says.

“Right because he wants you,” Kathy jokes in response.

Teresa fires back by revealing that Kathy and Richie almost got divorced — which Kathy denies. This sends Kathy, who rarely yells, into crazy housewife mode.

And fortunately she has her sister Rosie to back her up.

“I don’t care if I get locked up, I’ll kill her,” Rosie screams from back stage.

Bum, bum, bum! Until next Sunday….

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Was this the most dramatic reunion in RHONJ history? Weigh in below!

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Things always get heated on The Real Housewives of New Jersey between Teresa Giudice and Jacqueline Laurita, but before the wild reunion airs, Jacqueline has taken to Twitter to provoke Teresa’s anger!

Jacqueline, 42, called Teresa, 40, out in a blunt tweet written on September 28.

“Nice try @teresa_giudice Ugly people like you never win,” she wrote. “You’ll see. Everyone will see.”

Jacqueline is never one to mince words, but we guess the drama between these two will NEVER stop!

Teresa recently spoke on Anderson about how the high-profile show has torn her family apart.

“I love my brother, he’s my only brother, we come from a small family. When he wants to be brother and sister again I am there for him, I will never turn my back on him. I love my nieces and nephews, we used to say we couldn’t wait until we got married because we couldn’t wait for our kids to grow up together. Now, it’s been a year and I haven’t spoken to him because of fame. I hear that fame ruins a family and it has ruined my family.”

The first part of the reunion special will air on September 30 at 10 p.m. EST on Bravo. Will YOU watch the mayhem unfold, HollywoodLifers?

– William Earl

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This season’s finale of The Real Housewives of New Jersey saw the culmination of the ultra-dramatic Posche fashion show — and the end of Jacqueline Laurita and Teresa Giudice‘s friendship.

The show, which featured the confrontation between Teresa’s sister-in-law Melissa Gorga and her former strip-club boss, made Jacqueline finally see what she believed were the true colors of supposed-friend Teresa.

“After the Posche fashion show, I had a nervous breakdown,” Jacqueline said on last night’s episode. “It was just overwhelming with friendships ending.”

The final moments of the show revealed that Teresa and Jacqueline hadn’t seen each other since that fateful night.

RHONJ star Kathy Wakile recently told HollywoodLife.com exclusively that “[Melissa] wasn’t really a dancer. She worked in a club and she was kind of like a Hooters girls, a hostess, a bar maid. She wasn’t a dancer. And even if she had been, it doesn’t matter because I know her now. She’s a great mom and wife, and they have a beautiful life. She wasn’t a murderer. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.”

Are you surprised by the reason that Jacqueline and Teresa are no longer friends, HollywoodLifers?

– Billy Nilles

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If Teresa Giudice really did set Melissa Gorga up — she better fess up because Jacqueline Laurita is ready to expose the truth!

In this preview for the Sept. 23rd season finale, Jacqueline reveals that she received a text alerting her that Angelo — who claimed Melissa used to dance for him — was planted by another housewife. Jacqueline tells Melissa about the text and that Teresa may have been the one to set her up. However, once Teresa finds out what Jacqueline knows– she totally freaks out and turns the table on Jacqueline.

“Obviously, there’s someone trying to set me up and maybe you’re involved,” Teresa screams to Jacqueline.

This, of course, is the breaking point for Jacqueline who tells the cameras, “I’m completely done.”

Hmm! We can’t wait to see ALL the drama unfold on the RHONJ season finale at 10pm EST! Watch the video and weigh in below!

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