RHONJ’s Rachel Fuda Weighs In On Melissa & Teresa’s ‘Heartbreaking’ Feud: ‘It’s Very Sad’ (Exclusive)

The Real Housewives of New Jersey returns for Season 13 connected February 7 with caller play and caller faces. And 1 of the newest formed members includes Melissa Gorga‘s adjacent person Rachel Fuda. Having watched the earlier seasons of the amusement earlier signing connected to go a prima of RHONJ, the 31-year-old knows rather a spot about Teresa Giudice and her years-long drama with the Gorgas. So erstwhile Rachel appeared connected the latest occurrence of HollywoodLife‘s Real Housewives podcast, Pay Attention Puh-Lease!, she told america wherefore she finds the full concern to beryllium “heartbreaking”.

Rachel, who shares three children with her hubby John Fuda, said she was archetypal introduced to the amusement during COVID, erstwhile she was large and had thing other to bash successful quarantine. So she binged RHONJ and loves the earlier seasons. “There’s conscionable thing that’s truthful nostalgic” astir them, she told america EXCLUSIVELY, earlier revealing Seasons 1-4 are her favorite. But adjacent though she watched the amusement earlier joining, Rachel told america she didn’t privation to commencement “picking sides” earlier the cameras adjacent started rolling. Her anticipation was to springiness everyone a “fair shot” by getting to cognize them connected her ain presumption earlier deciding whether she wants to person a narration with them.

Unfortunately, due to the fact that of her relationship with Melissa, Rachel said she was “naturally polarized” and it was “unfortunate”. She believes she could person “gotten along” with immoderate of the ladies, who possibly would person fixed her a much “fair chance” had she not been branded arsenic “Melissa’s friend”. Obviously, she was talking much astir Teresa. But conscionable due to the fact that she and Teresa haven’t go bully friends, doesn’t mean she’s loving the feud betwixt the Giudices and the Gorgas.

RHONJ’s Rachel Fuda, Teresa Giudice & Melissa Gorga (Andrew Eccles/Bravo)

“I consciousness truthful horrible for some of them. It’s truly bittersweet to beryllium a bystander and ticker it, and cognize that you can’t assistance that,” Rachel told us. “They request to beryllium a spot wherever they’re some acceptable to enactment unneurotic successful bid to travel to immoderate benignant of harmonious statement of surviving life. It’s conscionable excessively abbreviated — beingness is excessively short.”

“You person 1 household — Teresa ever says that — and you lone unrecorded once. So I conscionable anticipation they tin reconcile astatine immoderate constituent down the line, but it’s precise very precise bittersweet to ticker that. It’s heartbreaking,” she added.

As fans already know, Melissa and her husband, Joe Gorga, decided not to attend Teresa’s wedding to Luis “Louie” Ruelas successful Aug. 2022 aft Teresa betrayed them portion filming play 13 of RHONJ. Fans volition spot that play drama retired when Season 13 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey premieres Tuesday, Feb. 7 astatine 9 p.m. ET connected Bravo.

To perceive what other Rachel had to accidental astir the caller season, play the afloat podcast occurrence above!

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