‘RHONJ’ recap: Luis Ruelas argues with Teresa Giudice and threatens to hit Joe Gorga

Last week, the cast of The Real Housewives of New Jersey divided into their two alliances after Melissa Gorgaluau, and this week’s episode kicked off the next morning when everyone started remembering what happened the night before. Even though the initial conversation focused on Daniela Cabralfamily problems and his suspected rivalry with his brother, the topic of conversation ended up changing when Theresa Judge AND Jose throat shared a big family secret.

The information came after Joe and Melissa found out Louis ride he tried to invite his mother to his and Teresa’s wedding. They questioned how “genuine” their actions were, considering they had been in an argument over an affair not too long ago. Inside jennifer aidinAt Teresa’s beach house, Teresa tells her and Danielle that Luis “lost a quarter of a million dollars” and blames Joe for it. You mentioned that Joe came up with the idea of ​​making and selling pizza ovens. He claimed Joe wanted to do it with her, as a tribute to her late father, and Luis contributed $250,000 to help make it happen. After Luis spoke with his and Teresa’s attorney, Luis asked Teresa what percentage of the business they should give to Joe and “[he and the attorney] reached five percent. Teresa claimed that Joe “went crazy” because he “wanted 50%”. But she said she “didn’t want” to put half the money upfront, so she didn’t think he deserved half the deal. Luis “took the loss” as the deal didn’t work out.

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So, at Melissa and Joe’s beach house, they told her Margherita pizza Jose AND Jackie oroschneider A similar story, but from his point of view. Joe said much of his anger last season stemmed from the deal failing, but everyone chose not to speak about it publicly. He said he didn’t want to “bury” Teresa, but now that he’s talking about it, he wanted to share his side of her story. “Luis screwed me over the pizza thing,” he said. I told him it was my idea… [for] my sister and I” to “honor our father”. Joe said Luis “loved” the idea, so they “ordered” ovens. Joe said Luis was adamant about investing his money and thought they would split the proceeds of the deal and get “50 percent” each. But not long after, Joe found out that Teresa and her daughters did a private photo shoot for the company, ordered boxes, and started calling it “The Skinny Pizza or something.” He called Luis and Teresa to find out what was going on, and Luis started giving him “lip.” Teresa criticized him for not investing money, saying she never had the chance. You said Luis insisted on covering upfront costs. “It was my idea,” Joe revealed, but it got stolen and things “got really ugly.”

After the family secret was revealed, everyone gathered for lunch at the Raquel FudaBeach house. The deal didn’t come right away, but things started to heat up when Teresa found out Melissa was upset that her mother wasn’t invited to the wedding. She was tired of hearing about it and she insisted that if Joe and Melissa told her how angry they were, she would invite her. Woman March. But Teresa didn’t ask Donna out in the first place, and that was the real issue at hand. She couldn’t figure it out because she never thinks she is responsible for anything.

Regardless, Luis took matters into his own hands when he asked Melissa to step aside for a private conversation. He apologized to her for the situation involving her and her mother’s marriage. But before the conversation could go much further, Teresa intervened and it upset Luis. He told Teresa that she didn’t “respect” his space and that it wasn’t “fair.” Teresa continued to speak, then Luis got up, looked her in the face and told her that he didn’t “understand”.

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“You have to respect the fact that I’m here talking to your sister-in-law,” he told her. “You can go?”

Once Teresa walked away, Luis tried to continue his conversation with Melissa by saying Teresa’s actions were “shit.” Melissa didn’t know what to say, so Joe joined the chat. He asked what they were talking about and Luis invited him to join them. Melissa said she was “hurt” about her situation with her mother and her marriage, and Luis said there was “a lot of pain” on both sides.

Melissa said Teresa is the one who “caused the pain,” but out of the conversation, Teresa was telling the other women that her brother “needs therapy” and Melissa has “daddy issues,” which is why she keeps Joe tied up and won’t “allow” him to repair his relationship with her. Jackie couldn’t believe Teresa would say that Melissa has “daddy issues” considering that her father was killed in a car accident when she was just 16 years old. But as soon as Jackie squelched the comment, Teresa freaked out and told her to leave. “Get out of the way! STFU!” Teresa screamed. Melissa heard the women yelling at each other, so she backed out of the conversation she was having with Joe and Luis and let them have their little chat without her. But it didn’t last long.

Seconds after Luis revealed that he wears Joe and Teresa’s late father’s pajamas at night, Teresa was back to chatting. Luis begged them not to fight, but as expected they did. Joe said he told Luis and Already Judge that he was upset that Teresa hadn’t included Melissa in the marriage, and begged Teresa to fix the situation, but she “nothing”. So she basically called her a liar for saying that if they shared her pain for not inviting Donna, she would do what was necessary to make things right. Teresa told Joe that he and Melissa should have stood up for her more last year when Margaret was spreading rumors about Luis. Still, Melissa reminded Teresa that she didn’t stand up for Joe when Jennifer Aydin called him an “asshole,” at least in the season reunion. In fact, she agreed with Jennifer and she told Joe era acting as one.

Teresa then stormed out and told Luis to “fix” the situation. But when she refused unless she stayed, she came back and sat with them again. Joe told Teresa that she is constantly “mean” to them. He accused her of not being happy, so she accused him of the same. Joe was so fed up with the situation that he got up and walked away, to which Luis told him he was “just kidding.” [like a bitch boy] well done,” and Joe told her to “shut up” before he and Melissa left brunch.

Unfortunately, Luis’ car was parked behind theirs, so Joe had to go back and ask Luis to move his vehicle. That’s when Joe saw Teresa sitting there talking to Margaret and he got angry. How could Teresa be sitting with the same person she had asked Joe and Melissa not to date? Joe started yelling, so Luis got up and tried to defuse the situation. But when Joe hugged Luis and joked about dancing together, Luis pushed Joe and said he was going to “hit” him. “I have nothing to lose, you know what I mean?” Luis told Joe. Joe then backed off and Luis agreed to move his vehicle.

While in the garage, Luis practically begged Joe and Melissa to try and mend his relationship with Teresa, but they said they’d had enough and left the party “exhausted.”

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