Teresa Giudice is speaking out after Vicki Gunvalson picked her as the mostoverrated Real Housewives star.
At BravoCon 2022 on Saturday, the Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 50,told PEOPLE exclusively that she thinks the Bravo franchise stars should besupportive of each other.
“My response [to Vicki’s comment] is we’re all Housewives,” she said. “And weshould all be lifting each other up and not saying anything negative abouteach other.”
BRAVOCON — Right the Relationship Panel from the Javits Center in New YorkCity on Friday, October 14, 2022 — Pictured: (lr) Austen Kroll, VickiGunvalson, Heather Gay — (Photo by: Heidi Gutman/Bravo via Getty Images )
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The reality star added that she won’t allow any negativity to break herpositive mindset.
“If someone’s trying to put a black cloud over you, you need to chew it awayand make the sun come out…I’m not about that,” she added.
During the “Right the Relationship” panel at BravoCon 2022 on Friday, TheReal Housewives of Orange County alum, 60, responded to a fan who asked whichcast member from the hit Bravo franchise was the most overrated.
“I’m going to say Teresa [Giudice],” Vicki said. “It’s not that I don’t likeTeresa, I just think, you do a bad thing and you go to jail and you stillcarry on a TV show? I just can’t believe it.”
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Vicki revealed that she especially has struggled to understand Teresa’spopularity amid the Real Housewives of New Jersey star’s legal issues.
“I mean, she just keeps making more money and more money and more money, andit’s hard for me to understand. I like her, but I don’t get it,” she shared.”I actually did vote for her on Dancing with the Stars because I’m a_Housewives_ supporter. I like her, I just think she’s overrated. It’s a lot.”
Teresa also opened up to PEOPLE about what fans can expect from the upcomingseason of RHONJ.
“It was a sad season for me,” she said. “It’s heartbreaking but it ends with ahappy ending.”
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“This season a lot of things open my eyes, like really wide open,” she added.”So I wanna focus on my children and my husband, and that’s what’s importantto me.”
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While appearing on a separate panel at BravoCon on Friday, Teresa recountedher 11-month jail sentence for fraud charges relating to her ex-husband, JoeGiudice’s bankruptcy fraud.
Teresa — who has maintained that she didn’t know about Joe’s fraud — sharedher thoughts on her jail time, and why she thinks things would’ve played outdifferently if she wasn’t on the Bravo show.
“I got used as an example. What’s the saying? The good comes with the bad.Meaning, like, because I was on TV — if I was just a regular housewife, Iprobably wouldn’t have went to jail,” said Teresa .
The reality star noted that she didn’t expect to be found complicit. “Joe wastelling them, ‘She has nothing to do with it.’ He told me, ‘Damn, they wantyou more than they want me!’ And he was the one who did it.”
Teresa and her now-ex-husband Joe, 50, finalized their divorce in 2020 after20 years of marriage. Joe now lives in the Bahamas, as the Italian native wasdeported from America following his fraud sentence. They share four daughters:Audriana, 13, Milania, 16, Gabriella, 18, and Gia, 21. In August 2022, Teresagot remarried to Luis Ruelas.
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