Jacqueline Laurita Talks About The Napa Trip And Teresa!
Jacqueline Laurita took to her blog to talk about the Napa trip and says she hoped the trip brought Teresa closer with her family. Jacqueline also talks Lauren’s melt down! Check it out after the jump
“This episode had me cracking up! I couldn’t believe Vito shared his bear tattoo story with everyone. “It must have gone back in his cave?” What the…? LOL! Melissa had me laughing the most. She wasn’t joking around. You can see the panic and fear all over her face. Clearly she wasn’t going to drown in two feet of water, but I think the thought of those biting bugs at the bottom of the river sent her over the edge. It was funny to watch though. I hope she can look back now and laugh about it too.
I loved when Rich came back from getting groceries with a ball and a bat and Kathy told him to go outside to play in traffic like a good little boy. I also couldn’t believe that Joey Gorga asked the neighbor for fruit in his underwear and introduced Tarzan to everyone. He is so funny!
OK, so surfing isn’t my thing. I have tried surfing before, but I really didn’t want to try to squeeze into a wetsuit at that moment in time and sharks freak me out. Don’t they come into shallow water too? I hear a lot of that lately. Yikes! No thank you. I had fun watching. Everybody finally made it up on the board that day. I was proud. I really loved to hear that compliment my husband gave me. (Bonus points for him.) I’m glad that he is happy with my body. I wish I could be, but I love to pick myself apart. I’m a confident insecure person, if that makes sense. I’m OK not being perfect and I can laugh at my faults. Maybe I just need a new mirror.
Just for the record, when I spoke about Teresa being competitive to a fault at times, I was not just talking about her surfing. Not really important anymore. Clearly there was more going on between me and Teresa than the “articles” and the other stuff you are seeing. It was discussed with Teresa during our “talk.” I also felt a whole lot of unnecessary pressure from Teresa at a time when I just couldn’t take anymore. I wasn’t in a position to take on other people’s problems, and I just needed peace around me. Like I told Teresa, had I gone after Melissa and Kathy for Teresa (the way she would have liked me to), they would have hated me by that point. And after Teresa decided to make up with them, where would that have left me besides having more added stress that I didn’t need? I know Teresa said that she got over it, but I honestly didn’t believe she did. I was hearing too many things. I honestly just wanted everyone to be open, honest, and real with each other. I wanted everyone to resolve their issues once and for all. My head couldn’t take anymore fighting around me! I was getting too worn out! I felt like I was just going to shut down. That’s one of the reasons that I got so upset with her about the Danielle thing. Teresa was finally so close to peace with her family (on camera) and I KNEW her public communication with that devil (Danielle) would start some trouble all over again. I thought she should have handled that issue in private. Even if she was faking for the camera, it still made things more pleasant for everyone. I was hoping eventually that the good times would outweigh the bad between them, and it would turn sincere. Fake it till you make it.
I didn’t want to disappoint my friend, but I wanted to feel free to be who I was, and I wanted her to respect me for that. I like to find out who people are and judge them through my own experiences with them, especially people who I see so often. She knew this about me, but she still let me know how much I disappointed her in different ways. It didn’t sit well with me, but I just didn’t feel right doing the things she wanted me to. If I got involved with her fight against her family, it would have been so much more difficult and awkward for them to resolve things. It would only add more fuel to the fire. I didn’t want to be involved with that. At the same time, it hurt me to see Teresa hurting. I wanted things to get better for her. It’s also natural for me, when I see someone hurting, to offer my help. I’m a great listener and communicator, so I did feel a little shut out by Teresa in other areas, but I think I finally understand the way Teresa thinks now. I started to understand her boundaries more, and I needed to respect them. I also wanted her to respect where I was coming from.??Teresa and I both know that I never asked her about her financial situation, nor did I care to know any details of it. I was a good listener when she needed me, and I felt like I gave great advice. The times Teresa opened up to me about her grievances, they were mostly about her family. It became a little repetitive and petty after a while, so it became harder to hear at times, but I still wanted to be there for her. I was mostly concerned about the many personal, public articles that kept coming out in national magazines that she never acknowledged around us. All I knew was that Teresa told me she was putting out articles (as you saw at Jamie’s wedding), but I never knew what parts of them were true or not anymore. Some of them said scary things. Things that you would talk to your best friend about. Things I worried for her about. I figured that if Teresa took the time to share with the tabloids certain things about her life, friends, and family, which allowed many strangers to read these things and left people to speculate on what was real or not, that I just wanted the same (if not more respect) as her best friend — to hear the truths straight from the source. I just wanted to know what was real or fake, if she needed my help at all, or to know if she was really hurting or not. The thought of her suffering in silence concerned me. I wanted her to talk to me about the things she was opening up to the tabloids about. Those seemed like much more serious issues to worry about than if Melissa was copying her feather skirt or not.
I needed to lean on Teresa as a friend at that time as well, and I felt like I wasn’t being heard or that she wasn’t concerned with what I was dealing with. When Teresa said to my face that she didn’t ask me questions because she didn’t care, that cut me very deep. I, unlike her, wanted my friends to ask questions. It feels good when someone else cares and wants to help. I think we have a different perspective on the definition of true friendship. It doesn’t make either of us wrong, just different. As much as I was trying to help Teresa, I felt like my efforts were misinterpreted and she was upset and disappointed with me more and more. It was frustrating. I wanted her to know that I had her best interest in mind, and when I didn’t agree with her on things, it didn’t mean that I didn’t love her. I just felt that there were more important things in life to worry about or focus on. ??Anyway, I was really glad that we finally sat and talked and that she initiated the conversation. I apologized if I had hurt her, and I meant it. For those of you that were on my back for not apologizing, now you can see that I clearly did. It really wasn’t my intention to hurt her in the first place. I felt bad for losing my temper, because I felt hurt at Melissa’s launch party. I already knew that she most likely wouldn’t be accepting blame or apologizing for anything, because I know that is just how she is. I was OK with that, because I felt like maybe she finally understood me more and maybe it gave her more awareness of others feelings. I was just happy to be more at peace with her after our talk, because I was feeling unsettled at that point. I was definitely happy that she seemed to be getting along with her family and that we talked. Things seemed to be better between us, but somehow I knew things would still be different, although I was still hoping for the best.
Lauren was going through a transitional phase during this trip. She was becoming more separated from her brothers than she was used to be. It had always been the three of them doing everything together. They lived together, went to school together, and shared most of the same friends. When siblings start growing more independent and venturing out on their own, relationships start to shift a little. This is life’s natural course. They will all have their own families to focus on one day as well. (This is all too familiar with Teresa and Joey Gorga.) It doesn’t mean they love each other any less. I think it was harder for Lauren than most, because her brothers were moving on together. They lived together, worked together, and were making new friends together, so Lauren was feeling a little left out. I understand what she was feeling. That could not have been easy. She felt left out of the good times they were having together without her and didn’t feel included. She felt left out of their new private jokes. She just wanted to be kept in the loop and stay as close as they always were. I think it all came to a head on the trip, and that’s why she was so sensitive about it. I actually found it endearing that she loves them so much that she got so upset about it. I don’t think the boys intentionally left her out, because I know they love their sister very much. They were just looking at things from a different perspective. They were not thinking as deeply about it as Lauren was, because the boys were still continuing their lives together and just going with the flow of things. It’s all good, they are still very close to this day. ??For the record, Caroline did not call Lauren any names to her face, she was expressing her frustration with Lauren in the moment. What parent with a grown child has not gone through that moment? Trust me, Caroline loves all her kids equally, and she is extremely close with ALL of them. Her kids love her back just as much. I love how all of her kids want to come around and still enjoy time with their mom. What mother wouldn’t want that? People that comment on their closeness negatively just seem a little jealous to me, because I think it’s a positive thing.”
Blah blah blah. I feel like all these housewives say the same thing blog after blog and I’m O-V-E-R it. They explain the same situation in different wording. It’s beginning to get exhausting to even read! Thoughts on what Jacqueline had to say?
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I really can’t stomach reading her blogs. I just look to see what your opinion is.
Same here! If Andy doesn’t get rid of the Manzo’s he can kiss this show goodbye.
blah, blah, blah… Same o shet! Teresa, Teresa!
She is the most annoying, sad person ever. She’s having a mid-life crisis, I swear. And if you aren’t happy with your weight, QUIT DRINKING ALL DAY EVERY DAY. Chris should be worried about his kids being home alone with her. And does she drive around drunk? Maybe she has a nanny?
Totally agree about this blog. Blah, blah blah. Please replace her with someone interesting.
Bah bah Jacqueline
Have you a storyline?
No sir Andy
But T’s will do just fine.
STFU JackHO!
Drop off the planet already…
I couldn’t read the whole 7 pages. Too much BS it’s so over the top with Teresa…I needed a drink!
Jac is a joke. We all saw the episode where she berated Teresa for not telling her about her financial situation. Jac said repeatedly she wanted to know the ins and outs if Teresa’s financials and every article. Teresa stated the articles about her worrying about possible jail time was untrue. Jac should have left it, but she didn’t that was what we could see as the break-down of the friendship. Jac has absolutely no right to be mad at Teresa and most certainly should apologized for her actions along with Big Red, Manzo.
Lauren is 24 and acts like a 4 year old. Albie went off and lived at Fordham for 4 years. He hasn’t always been in the house. This idea of familial abandonment is pathetic. She is a woman not a child. Does she not have her own friends? It sure seems that way. I guess with Lauren’s attitude who would want to be her friend.
Additionally, even if Lauren felt some sort of abandonment issues from her brothers excluding her from all intimate details of their lives, i.e.: taking a dump, then she should not be voicing it roa group of people several she only knows for 1.5 yrs and more importantly to 2.4M people. She knows she is being filmed. She has to have some restraint. She is a spoiled child and Bravo please get her off the show. Lauren is a poor, pathetic individual who just makes my skin crawl.
Ha ha! I have to LOL! Caroline Manzo gets a pass for her a$$hole remark to her daughter because it wasn’t to her face! OK! So we must excuse Joe Giudice as well because he did not say b!tch or “c” to his wife’s face. That is Jac’s logic, but you know as soon as that episode in Napa airs Jac’s blog will paint a different picture. LOL!
So true about the a**hole remark!!
i cant believe that she really just said that she never asked teresa about her financial situations and didn’t care to hear the details about it. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? we’ve seen you ask and bring them up over and over. asking her about tabloid stories and her bankruptcy is asking about financial situations! jesus, how stupid do you think we are jacqueline?! i can’t take it anymore! you and your family live in a false sense of reality and you will never see or admit your wrongdoings.
ps i cant wait for the moment when Albie gets married and Lauren flips her lid. i would love to see the Manzo’s go through the exact situation that they are cruicfying T for.
Remember at WHORSEY Face’s launch party wasn’t it Jac that said to Chris T will need all the money she can get to pay back her $11 million debt? Then she wants to claim she never asked questions or said anything!
OMG Jacqueline seriously you are a FREAKING IDIOT!
Have another bottle of wine!
Am I missing something? I mean, just don’t get it. Jacqueline, what were you hearing and from whom. I font understand why it’s the most important thing on everyones atmosphere whether or not Teresa gets along with HER family.
Good heavens………STFU already. You’re a moron Wacko Jacko
Exactly Shipp! JacAss just needs to shut up & go away! I quit reading her idiotic blog…she just talks in circles.
Jac are you kidding…T needed you also. Accusing her of being a fake? Telling the world that she didn’t want you to hang with her family. And I don’t care what anyone says…you certainly ambushed her. What kind of friend are you?
I guess you’re better of with that nasty C, who calls her daughter fat and an asshole for all the world to see/hear. What does she say to her behind the cameras? So much pressure on that young girl it’s ridiculous. They all just sit and laughed at her while she was having a breakdown. Lauren you are such a beautiful girl. Don’t change for anyone!!!!! Sometimes unfortunate we don’t get the best advice from our Mothers.
Ok Jacqueline. You want – “I honestly just wanted everyone to be open, honest, and real with each other.”? Then next season I’d love to hear you talk on camera about ALL your personal business. Just put it all out there for the whole world and be open, honest, and real. Until you do that…just be quiet.
Exactly Margie!!
Does Jac ever do anything now, but make excuses that contradict her earlier excuses?
Or contradict what our own eyes have already seen?
Not only is she bizarre (to me), but so are her fans who just can’t or won’t acknowledge that there is something seriously wrong with her, who enable her by pretending she didn’t say or do the things we ALL SEE.
Crazy.
Soooo agree @Autumn
ps: Maybe Lauren relies on her brothers for the support and love her mother clearly can’t provide.
Jacqueline is one of the worst people ever to say anything about anyone. She has been a nut job on blogs, screwed Ashlee up, went against Teresa for a show and her sister in law after over a decade of never fighting and being close, defends Melissa after knowing and seeing the damage she has caused for T and her family, and speaks so trashy about T and her family.She is one of the biggest hypocrites and fake screwed up personalities I have ever witnessed on tv. She is in no place to judge anyone , especially when it comes to finances, marriages,and mothering.
BUT she’s confidently insecure…. now tell me if you can say the same thing
LOL! Im so jelly she can pull that off
Thank-you michers, well said!
Your welcome Holy, my pleasure
Now i f I could only pull off her ” confident insecure” act…Bi*** please!! I did not think it was possible at this point for her blogs to get filled with even more BULLshizz.
She lost me at “I’m a great communicator”…..r u out of ur damn mind??? Ashlee wouldn’t have turned out the way she did if her mother was so great at communicating!!!
Ha Lauren is pissed because her brothers might get a show and she won’t be in it because she’s fat. Do I see a little bit of Melissa here? Yes she is very jealous so mommy of course is trying to make her a housewife and drags her along so she gets her picture taken too.
jac I almost feel sorry for you! I find it interesting that week after week you dedicate your blog to teresa then want to claim you don’t like her. I think you have an unhealthy obsession with her. Bottom line if you didn’t have LARGE MARGE threatening to give you a damn beat down if you dare speak to T again, you and Teresa would still be friends. For 2 seasons now I haven’t seen what T has done to you for you not wanting to be friends.
JEN you nailed it! She does have an unhealthy obsession with teresa. I never thought about it that way until you posted your comment. She had a similar obsession with Danielle. She would be nice to her face get info from her and then run back to the hag crew and back stab her. I don’t like danielle just thought it was real shitty when jac. would be nice to her face but then be shitty behind her back.
On Andy’s Facebook, they are submitting questions for the reunion.
That doesn’t matter because the only questions that will be asked are the ones about Teresa and Joe about their legal problems.
Jax has a problem with going against Melissa and Kathy but doesn’t seem to care that she trashes her friend for over 10 years. Jax is a Manzo puppet and could never have an opinion of her own. Her drunken rants on twitter is caused by depression because she never wanted to destroy her friendship with Teresa. Who would want to hang out with an old hag like Caroline instead of a fun person like Teresa.
Ok here’s where I stopped reading: “Teresa was finally so close to peace with her family (on camera) and I KNEW her public communication with that devil (Danielle) would start some trouble all over again.”
Am I mistaken or was Teresa’s response to Danielle based on Melissa bringing Danielle back into the situation. Melissa admitted that she communicated with Danielle in order to hurt Teresa. Your friend at the time Teresa. But yet its somehow Teresa’s fault for creating more trouble with Danielle. WTF?? No mention of Melissa and her role in this at all. A person who readily admitted she did this. You wanted to friend Teresa’s family although one was in cahoots with your nemesis Danielle to take down her own family member?? Seriously?
Panda Bear that was a great summation of this whole season. Why doesn’t Wackojaco talk about her money troubles. She was never Teresa’s friend if she could do this! Melissa contacts Danielle and some how this is all T’s fault ?????At this point I would expect some loyalty from a friend of 10 years. Teresa never bashed Ashley and she could have The Manzo’s never let up on Ashley. Who are they to talk explain to me how grown adult children who don’t have jobs or careers can pick on a younger person still trying to grow up. Believe me I’m no Ashley fan but give me a break Wackojaco can’t even defend her own daughter so how can she be anyones friend?? I want to know what Caroclown has on Wackojaco to control her!!!!
Awesome!
I dont even read her blog anymore I just enjoy reading everybody comments lol.
Jacko is crazy and i hope she get the pink slips; & slips into rehab so she can get better lol.
Andy! Are you listening??? This cast is “Garbage” and “Trash” and this show SUCKS. A complete recast is in order. Mayyyybe keep Teresa since she has such a crazy fan following, but jesus, if I have to read one more word from Jacqueline about her feelings I’m going to throw up all over my keyboard.
Jacqueline, normal people do not dwell on the stupid s*** you INSIST on dwelling upon. Good lord woman, in a dictionary of phrases your picture would be right next to “Beating a Dead Horse.”
Oh, and your insecurity about your body is off-putting. It wouldn’t be so noticable if you didn’t bring it up all the time. No wonder you and Lauren are friends. I know that’s harsh but honestly, I’m sick to death of you.
Why post Jacquelines blog, if you appear to not like it / her? This site seems to only speak negatively about all the Jersey housewives except Teresa. Kind of odd for a site claiming to be “All about the truth”, ehh?
Check out the banner. It’s All About The Real Housewives not All About the Truth. I’m allowed to have an opinion. Her blog was “blah” others might disagree. Xo
-Roxanne
Her blog is always BLAH!! So is Jac’s, Mel’s, Caro’s and Kathy’s! Why do people come on here to sling remarks like that I will never know. Thank you for putting the work out that you do Rox
Sorry- Jax already spoken for, my bad.
Its so odd that people come on this site and randomly complain??!!?? Sure I dont always agree w/ Roxy or the posters but thats just life! As far as Im concerned this is the classiest and well respected blog out there and its the only one I will post on. I rarely even read the others! As for truth…I find that Roxy always posts the facts but gives her opinion w/out misleading us to believe her opinion is the fact and I really love that about AATRH!
We should just call jacs a blah-g … Fa-dump-dump
Jac has a childish, immature image of friendship. Nobody, not even a friend, has a right to expect to know every detail of someone’s life.
Exactly! And it doesn’t surprise me since she has the emotional maturity of a 5 year old! And she convinces herself that the history is the way she wants it to have been, not how it really was. That is what children do, not grown women. It’s so fascinating to watch…
Right on ! Another line she stated that bothered me was when she said Teresa didn’t care. Teresa said she didn’t care meaning she did not want to pry into her business, as Jac has done with her. Its not her main goal in life to get in all her details like that! She was there for Jac, and wanted to keep her from being sad and dwelling vs. what Caro and the rest were doing and saying about Ashlee. Jac needs too much attention and affirmation, and at her age that is just weird. She is very child-like in many ways and it kind of disturbs me at this point. I remember a few episodes T sat down with her and said she was sorry if she felt she was not really there for her with Ashlee , even though she always sat and listened and watched Jac cry.
I think my favorite delusion this week is her pondering what woud have happened to her if she’d “gone after Melissa” as Jac claims the asked her to do but neve gave a nanoseconds thought to what would happen to her as a result of ganging up on tre so badly. Strange, no? And quite telling – a people pleaser who must be w the majority or else she will crumble. Shame. Wo needs ae prance that badly. The stark contrast between her and tre is really remarkable – and a great teaching tool for younger women.
Acceptance (lol auto correct, damn thee).
Acceptance at ithe cost of another’s digiity and pride, acceptance at the cost of gossiping about information someone once shared w u in confidence is a very high price to pay. Tre on the other hand has been so ostracized by the “group” and yet it barely gives her pause. She’d like to be accepted but if people don’t like her, she feel solid in her treatment of others and comfortable enough in her own skin to just move on. Jac BEGS to e accepted at any cost, it’s her oxygen.
Very telling observation indeed! I think what sacred her most is pondering what would have happened with Caro of she stuck by Tre’s side! Why the hell was she so afraid of not being friends with Meho? Totally weird. She owed MeHo nothing! It was more important to Jac to befriend a person who does nothing but tear Tre and her family apart.. I think in the Manzo /Laurita bunch Jac is the MeHo!!!
Jacqueline,
You, Melissa and Caroline get paid alot of money to be bitches. Your only job is to be a bitch and you do it very well. You’re buddy Joe Gorga gets paid alot of money to pull his pants down on TV. I bet your future nephew Vito gets paid double my salary to spread his bare ass on TV. To this teacher who left home at 7:00AM and got home at 7:30 PM,you and your family and friends only make me realize how unfair life can be. Seriously, move on.
Um… did she really say that she is a “great communicator”????? Wtf? lmao
thats the Jack Daniels talking
Jac, you were being a kind, sensitive friend to a fakeo tv act for the cameras woman who pretends her acting for the cameras is life. She acts for the cameras and doesn’t realize that the viewers see thru her acting to the real mess that her life is. Her children do not respect her or their father, her husband thinks she is a “c..t” and “bi.ch”.and doesn’t even sleep in the same room….
I love when you are being yourself away from Caroline and Teresa. Both of those so called friends focus too much on the negative. Keep strong and positive girl. Stay away from all negative friends in sheepskin.
STFU Jaxass, you are obessed by Teresa….I hope to hell BRAVO fires your sorry ass. I am so sick of listening to you if you and your manzoid crew are still on next year BRAVO has lost another viewer. You belong in a re-hab. You are a cold calculating nut case and an alcolholic. Go away.
Jacko will be up shit creek when Chris dumps her and keeps the kids and she’s too old and drunk to strip. Hope she had a pre-nup if he is any kind of smart he’d leave her crazy butt.