Dina Manzo addressed Teresa Giudice’s engagement get together battle regarding Dolores Catania, shared why she wasn’t a superb ‘Housewife’ on Actual Housewives of New Jersey, and revealed she was in talks to affix Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills.
In response to stories, Dina’s points with Dolores contain the star’s shut relationship with the Manzo household – after Dina’s sister Caroline Manzo wrote a letter supporting Dina’s ex Tommy, who was accused of being related to Dina’s violent residence invasion in 2017.
In a question-and-answer video posted six months in the past on Dina’s YouTube channel, the alum addressed Teresa and Luis Ruelas‘ engagement get together drama.
Dina claimed she by no means requested her buddy Teresa to disinvite Dolores, however Teresa needed Dina to really feel extra comfy. The mother-of-one shared that it’s troublesome to go to New Jersey after the house invasion.
“Everybody’s like saying like, what’s the true story? So you already know me, I’m gonna inform the true story,” defined Dina, by way of All About TRH. “Right here I’m going again east for an occasion for Teresa that everybody was gonna learn about. So, my preliminary intuition was like, ‘Teresa, I really like you. Oh, I really like you. I used to be there on the engagement. I don’t assume I have to be there for the get together.’”
The alum added, “As a result of it’s laborious for me to go to New Jersey. And it was slightly too like actual, like going to a celebration … I advised Dave, I’m like, I can’t do it. I can’t do it. We’ll go to the marriage and I’ve time to organize for it, however I can’t do the engagement get together. So anyway, she known as me and he or she’s like, no, you’re coming. That is a part of your remedy. You might be coming to New Jersey and this can be a nice purpose and also you’re gonna be protected, and I promise you’re gonna be high quality. So I used to be like, okay, high quality.”
She went on, “Let me first say that Dolores and I’ve been in the identical room since our falling out of friendship. We didn’t have, like, we didn’t have this enormous struggle. We each noticed one another at Teresa’s mom’s funeral. We had been so good to one another. As a matter of reality, she was speaking about Frankie. Little, Frankie was doing one thing in California. I mentioned, let him stick with me. She met Dave. It was very cordial. Very good. I used to be glad to select up the place we left off. It was high quality.”
“And I noticed her one different time, I suppose at Lauren’s wedding ceremony earlier than I like left abruptly … So it’s not about me and Dolores needing to be in the identical room and what’s gonna go down. I feel Dolores and I are very a lot the identical means in that we’re not gonna make a scene the place we put Teresa first. It’s not about that. It’s nearly, I used to be actually uncomfortable being on the East Coast for an occasion like that.”
The star then expressed, “The Dolores piece wasn’t the largest drawback, however it was there. So, I did say to her after I came upon it was gonna be a really small, intimate get together, and he or she was saying like, ‘Oh, you already know, the ladies from the present had been gonna be there.’ And you already know, what individuals don’t perceive is sure, her and Dolores have recognized one another for 20-some-odd years, however they weren’t buddies. Like Teresa and I’ve been buddies, they had been acquaintances, they usually grew to become shut as soon as she began filming for the present once more. Teresa and I are like buddies and have been buddies since we had been 20-something years outdated. I’m her daughter’s godmother, Dave, and Lou are very shut.”
“Dolores and her household are very a lot intertwined [with the Manzo family] and I don’t really feel comfy with that,” she mentioned.
Dina additionally revealed her largest remorse from RHONJ. “My largest remorse, I suppose [was] leaving, however my largest remorse whereas being on [the show] was being so delicate,” she defined. “Wanting again now, I want I had slightly more durable pores and skin with like, a few of the stuff that I noticed individuals say in interviews and never take it personally.”
The alum mentioned she’s “not a superb Housewife” as a result of she has plenty of “persistence,” and doesn’t overreact.
“I in all probability would’ve stayed on longer had I not been taking issues so sensitively. As a result of my household was like falling aside, earlier than my eyes and I want I might have been stronger by means of it,” Dina shared.
The star additionally revealed she was contemplating becoming a member of RHOBH – in addition to Actual Housewives Final Ladies Journey season 2, although she determined to not do it, as a result of she “can’t speak” in regards to the authorized case which is “pending.”
“Thank god [I didn’t do RHUGT], I don’t want the cash. I’m not like selling something enormous,” she expressed.
As for RHOBH, Dina added, “Once I first moved [to CA], Andy and I sort of talked about it for a minute and I spoke to the higher-ups of Bravo. We had a gathering. it was when Erika Jayne simply joined. and I used to be identical to, ‘I don’t wanna be just like the one who’s just like the unquote poor chick’, however weren’t poor by any means. However, we’re not … residing this outlandish life.”
