Kathy Wakile reflected on her experience with Melissa Gorga and Teresa Giudice on The Real Housewives of New Jersey while appearing on a radio show last week.
As she suggested she was pushed off the series by a potential pact made between the sisters-in-law, refuted claims of moving into Melissa, 45, and Joe Gorgaâs neighborhood, and offered an update on her sister, Rosie Pierri, 56, Kathy, 59, addressed a potential series return, described the show as âreally dirty,â spoke of her two kids, and more.
âI was brought on at the same time Melissa was brought on. We were together all the time before the show, and then I kind of got thrown into being like a side, and I never liked to take sides,â Kathy explained on the April 23 episode of SiriusXMâs Page Six Radio. âI got thrown on Joe and Melissaâs camp and I stuck my neck out for them, and I only wanted to reason with Teresa, I never wanted to fight with her because we grew up together.â
While Kathy had good intentions when she joined the RHONJ cast in 2011 for season three, âmisinterpretationsâ and âa lack of good communicationâ led to drama between her and her two cousins, Melissa and Teresa, 52.
âI was pushed out, and that was completely fine with me. Listen, brother and sister should always reconcile, should always put their differences aside, and that was my aim,â she explained. âBut there was never a conversation.â
After a reconciliation between Melissa and Teresa, Kathy ventured to Melissaâs house, where she felt that Melissa had turned on her.Â
âShe was just like, âStop. You have to stop talking about my sister-in-law.â Meanwhile, Iâve been listening to you complain about your sister-in-law for like 10 years,â she recalled. âIt was just strange ⌠There mustâve been an interior conversation between them, âLetâs reconcile, push her out.ââ
According to Kathy, she suspected Melissa reconciled with Teresa for the sake of their roles on the show.
âWas it that they were making an alliance to stay on the show? âThis is the only way youâre gonna stay on the show is if you take my side and push Kathy out,ââ she suggested. âWe were like, boom, going from speaking every single day multiple times to nothing at all, and it was like ⌠sell-out.â
Not only does Kathy seem to believe Melissa was a âsell-out,â but she also suspects she never truly wanted to make amends with Teresa.
âI think when you do things for reasons other than authenticity, it ends up biting you, and I donât wish that on them. I wish they would reconcile because thatâs important, and itâs only the two of them. But I think when your motives are based on something that isnât true and authentic and heartfelt, some things fall to the wayside. Your ego will always get in the way,â Kathy noted.
After her falling out with Melissa, Kathy said to herself, âI got your number. I see who you are, and now I canât unsee it.â
Kathy then set the record straight about the new home she purchased with husband Richard âRichieâ Wakile.
âTo be clear, itâs not directly across the street [from Melissa and Joe]. Itâs diagonal down the street a bit [and] we lived in the neighborhood already for the last 10 years,â she clarified. âSo they moved to our neighborhood.â
After walking by the property for years and hoping to find something on the lake, Kathy walked into the home and told Richie, âI donât care what you have to do. This is our house.â
âAnd coincidentally, [Melissa and Joe] were bidding, we found out from a source, that they were bidding against us to get the house, and they werenât really gonna buy it because they already just moved into their new house,â Kathy went on, adding that, âOur side is on the lake.â
Kathy also called out Melissa for publicly discussing her homeâs whereabouts.
âShe went on [Jeff Lewisâ radio show] and told all about this house, and meanwhile, I wasnât talking about it. Itâs my business. Leave that alone,â she demanded.
Although Kathy made it clear that sheâs ânot gonna be someoneâs storyline or their way backâ into the show, she noted, amid her latest drama with Melissa, that she doesnât âwant to be enemies with anyone, at all.â
In addition to Melissa publicly speaking of her home before she made it public, Kathy called out Melissa for lying about her hopes to reconcile, stating that they already had when Melissa appeared on Jeff Lewis Live and suggested she had plans to do so. Meanwhile, Melissa insisted she was simply adhering to Kathyâs request to keep their meeting private.
When Kathy was then asked if she would ever return to RHONJ, she asked, âIs there a show?â
âWhat Iâm hearing is not ⌠for this long of a hiatus, that hasnât happened in a very long time,â she explained. â[But] I donât even identify what it was, what it became. When I was on, it felt, there were moments that didnât feel good, of course, but it felt good, and it felt like it was really focused on family. Now itâs changed.â
As for when the show shifted, Kathy said, âI think when it got really dirty.â
âYou have conflicts in every family. In every friend group, you have a conflict, but in real life, thereâs either a resolution, which we hope for and strive for, or if there isnât a resolution and there cannot be a resolution, then you go your separate ways and I feel like thatâs where theyâre at,â she reasoned. âThatâs where it got really bad because it was the same thing over and over.â
Moving on to family, Kathy said Rosie is âdoing amazing.â
âSheâs so slim and sheâs doing really, really well. Her company is like skyrocketing,â she shared.Â
As for daughter Victoria Wakile, 31, Kathy said sheâs been married for four years, and she revealed her son, Joseph Wakile, 29, is living in NYC and traveling for his job.
âTheyâre grown-ups. Iâm so proud of them,â Kathy gushed.
Also on the episode, after noting that her pizza shop, Pizza Love in Wyckoff, New Jersey, boasts a âvery extensive menu,â Kathy confirmed sheâs documenting the renovations sheâs been doing to her new home.
âI want to do before and after photos,â she shared. âIâm gonna be working alongside Dan DâAgostino, my architect, to do a whole story behind it because thereâs just so many aspects. Every part of the home we did and planned it out together with attention, and he took whatever vision and ideas I had and blew my mind.â
âIâm really proud of where weâre going with it. It has an old-world feel to it, itâs inspired by our travels along the Mediterranean. So we brought that, but itâs functional to the modern world and to our lifestyle,â she added.
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