Teresa Giudice shares shocking update on years-long feud with Joe and Melissa Gorga
Teresa Giudice revealed she has made up with her estranged brother, Joe Gorga, and his wife, Melissa Gorga, after a nearly 15-year feud.
“We have all gotten together. I’m really grateful and I’m thankful,” Giudice said during BravoCon’s Housewife2Housewife panel at Caesars Palace on Friday, per People.
As if to prove there were no hard feelings, Joe, 51, (who also stars on “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” with Giudice and Melissa) made an appearance at his sister’s table where she and and her husband, Luis Ruelas, were signing merchandise for fans.
A TikTok video taken by a fan showed Joe bringing his sister, 53, and Ruelas, 50, in for a hug. Reulas returned Joe’s gesture by planting a kiss on his cheek.
The truce was also reflected in the extended family as Gia Giudice told People while chatting on the red carpet that she has also buried the hatchet with her aunt and uncle.
“It feels really good,” she told the outlet of the family reunion.
“I’m looking forward to the path of rebuilding and just getting to a better place, which we already are in, so, yeah, it’s exciting,” Gia, 24, continued. “I’m really happy about it.”
Teresa first extended an olive branch in September when she revealed in a “Jeff Lewis Live” Sirius XM interview that she would “never say never” to a potential reconciliation with her estranged brother and sister-in-law, 46.
“I mean, I guess we would have to see,” the Bravolebrity said at the time, adding, “You just have to let it go and move on.”
Shortly after, Melissa told Page Six that the “door has been closed” between the feuding families for some time as she expressed her confusion about Teresa’s sudden change of heart.
“[Teresa] has said out loud on multiple platforms, podcasts, whatever it might be, that the door is closed. So, the truth is, I’m just confused why it might be opening or cracking a little bit,” she told us at Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” Awards.
The next month, Joe responded to his sister’s confession, saying he was willing to “forgive” Teresa, but he would only do so on one condition.
“If I sit down with her, and I hear her out, it has to be very humble. It has to come from a humble place,” Joe, 51, said on an October episode of “The Eds” podcast.
“It has to be real. It has to be, ‘I made mistakes.’ And [then] we can move forward.”
Joe, Melissa, and Teresa became estranged shortly after Melissa joined “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” franchise in 2011.
