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Dina Manzo addressed Teresa Giudice’s engagement party conflict concerning Dolores Catania, shared why she wasn’t a good ‘Housewife’ on Real Housewives of New Jersey, and revealed she was in talks to join Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
According to reports, Dina’s issues with Dolores involve the star’s close Relationship with the Manzo family – after Dina’s sister Caroline Manzo wrote a letter supporting Dina’s ex Tommy, who was accused of being connected to Dina’s violent home invasion in 2017.
In a question-and-answer video posted six months ago on Dina’s YouTube channel, the alum addressed Teresa and Luis Ruelas‘ engagement party drama.
Dina claimed she never asked her friend Teresa to disinvite Dolores, but Teresa wanted Dina to feel more comfortable. The mother-of-one shared that it’s difficult to visit New Jersey after the home invasion.
“Everyone’s like saying like, what’s the real story? So you know me, I’m gonna tell the real story,” explained Dina, via All About TRH. “Here I am going back east for an event for Teresa that everyone was gonna know about. So, my initial instinct was like, ‘Teresa, I love you. Oh, I love you. I was there at the engagement. I don’t think I need to be there for the party.’”
The alum added, “Because it’s hard for me to go to New Jersey. And it was a little too like real, like going to a party … I told Dave, I’m like, I can’t do it. I can’t do it. We’ll go to the wedding and I have time to prepare for it, but I can’t do the engagement party. So anyway, she called me and she’s like, no, you’re coming. This is part of your therapy. You are coming to New Jersey and this is a great reason and you’re gonna be safe, and I promise you’re gonna be fine. So I was like, okay, fine.”
She went on, “Let me first say that Dolores and I have been in the same room since our falling out of friendship. We didn’t have, like, we didn’t have this huge fight. We both saw each other at Teresa’s mother’s funeral. We were so nice to each other. As a matter of fact, she was talking about Frankie. Little, Frankie was doing something in California. I said, let him stay with me. She met Dave. It was very cordial. Very nice. I was happy to pick up where we left off. It was fine.”
“And I saw her one other time, I guess at Lauren’s wedding before I like left abruptly … So it’s not about me and Dolores needing to be in the same room and what’s gonna go down. I think Dolores and I are very much the same way in that we’re not gonna make a scene where we put Teresa first. It’s not about that. It’s just about, I was really uncomfortable being on the East Coast for an event like that.”
The star then expressed, “The Dolores piece wasn’t the biggest problem, but it was there. So, I did say to her when I found out it was gonna be a very small, intimate party, and she was saying like, ‘Oh, you know, the girls from the show were gonna be there.’ And you know, what people don’t understand is yes, her and Dolores have known each other for 20-some-odd years, but they weren’t friends. Like Teresa and I have been friends, they were acquaintances, and they became close once she started filming for the show again. Teresa and I are like friends and have been friends since we were 20-something years old. I’m her daughter’s godmother, Dave, and Lou are very close.”
“Dolores and her family are very much intertwined [with the Manzo family] and I don’t feel comfortable with that,” she said.
Dina also revealed her biggest regret from RHONJ. “My biggest regret, I guess [was] leaving, but my biggest regret while being on [the show] was being so sensitive,” she explained. “Looking back now, I wish I had a little tougher skin with like, some of the stuff that I saw people say in interviews and not take it personally.”
The alum said she’s “not a good Housewife” because she has a lot of “patience,” and doesn’t overreact.
“I probably would’ve stayed on longer had I not been taking things so sensitively. Because my family was like falling apart, before my eyes and I wish I could have been stronger through it,” Dina shared.
The star also revealed she was considering joining RHOBH – as well as Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip season 2, though she decided not to do it, because she “can’t talk” about the legal case which is “pending.”
“Thank god [I didn’t do RHUGT], I don’t need the money. I’m not like promoting anything huge,” she expressed.
As for RHOBH, Dina added, “When I first moved [to CA], Andy and I kind of talked about it for a minute and I spoke to the higher-ups of Bravo. We had a meeting. it was when Erika Jayne just joined. and I was just like, ‘I don’t wanna be like the one who’s like the unquote poor chick’, but were not poor by any means. But, we’re not … living this outlandish life.”
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