Melissa Gorga Beloved Filming RHONJ After Teresa Giudice Mentioned She’d be Fired

Melissa Gorga could not assist chortle when filming for season 14 of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey picked again up final August.

At the season 13 reunion that aired that June, the Envy founder had been informed by her sister-in-law (and fellow Housewife) Teresa Giudice that her time on the present had come to an finish. “I can not wait to by no means f—ing take a look at your face once more after at the moment,” Giudice, 51, promised Gorga, 45. “You are leaving!”

However as PEOPLE completely reported the subsequent month, each Gorga and Giudice — in addition to the remainder of the New Jersey Housewives — all acquired pickup letters to return once more. And when cameras began rolling, Gorga was feeling embodied.

“You already know what? It was enjoyable coming again,” Gorga tells PEOPLE, teasing, “‘What had occurred?’ ”

“Oh God,.. sorry, I acquired to make it humorous,” she laughs. “I imply, what do you do if you do not have enjoyable with it just a little bit, proper?”

Gorga wasn’t bothered by Giudice’s feedback on the reunion within the first place. “I used to be unfazed as a result of the more durable somebody goes and barks orders, the extra you are similar to, ‘Okay, sit down,’ ” she says. “And you realize what? It has been so a few years and I am similar to, something that they are saying or do at this level, I simply giggle at. I am like, ‘Okay…’ ”

Seeing as Giudice made it clear on the season 13 reunion that their relationship was over for good, Gorga says she made the choice in season 14 to cease speaking about Giudice. Within the first episode of season 14 , which premieres on Sunday, she even refuses to reply questions from producers about Giudice.

“There’s simply no want. I needn’t touch upon it,” Gorga tells PEOPLE. “I needn’t speak about it. … It is one thing I simply, I do not wish to say do not care about, however I simply do not anymore. That ship has sailed, and I am okay with it, my household’s okay with it — so why do I would like to speak about it? There’s completely nothing to speak about. So I am not answering a query as a result of it is simply going to be a dead-end query anyway. Preserve it shifting and let’s speak about one thing else.”

For what it is price, Giudice appears glad to maintain her distance from Gorga too in season 14, not even acknowledging her on the first episode’s all-cast occasion. Viewers should wait and see if that continues for the remainder of the episodes, however at BravoCon 2023 in November, Giudice informed followers she’ll get “redemption” on this season.

Once more, Gorga is not nervous. “All I hold listening to is each season is like, ‘vindication!’ ” Gorga laughs. “No, I feel it is truly exact opposite.”

“It is so humorous to listen to everybody on the opposite aspect saying they really feel they are going to be vindicated,” she continues. “Actually? Actually? Effectively, that’ll be the seventh season in a row that you simply say that and it doesn’t occur.”

If Gorga had a thick pores and skin about this all, that is as a result of she’s developed one of many years of watching her up and down relationship with Giudice play out on tv earlier than a nationwide viewers. It has been 13 years since the On Show with Melissa Gorga podcast host made her debut on RHONJ, when she and her husband Joe joined within the present’s third season. And although she’s nonetheless very a lot the identical Gorga followers met, her confidence has change essentially the most.

“Individuals overlook, I had a new child after I first joined the present,” Gorga remembers of her son Joey, who was solely 2-months-old on the time (becoming a member of sister Antonia, 4, and brother Gino, 2). “I used to be a brand new mother, elevating these three little infants, and attempting to navigate this intense scenario with my in-laws in entrance of the entire world. It was rather a lot!”

“I actually went by the woods,” she remembers. “And looking out again on it now, I am proud I used to be capable of navigate these rocky waters that had been introduced to me will nonetheless staying true to myself. I am a lot stronger than I ever thought I used to be. And I’ve develop into a extremely assured individual, the place I not solely have that ‘I do not give a you realize what’ angle, however I additionally actually consider it.”

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The Actual Housewives of New Jersey airs Sundays (8 p.m. ET) on Bravo.