Margaret Josephs recently slammed her former friend, Jackie Goldschneider, as a “fame wh*re,” prompting Jackie to fire back at her on social media.
As the Real Housewives of New Jersey cast, including Margaret, 57, Melissa Gorga, 45, and Jennifer Fessler, 53, reacted to the new friendship between Jackie, 47, and Teresa Giudice, 52, Margaret suggested that fame was the motivator behind Jackie making amends with Teresa and Jennifer Aydin, 47.
“Jackie ‘Judas’ Goldschneider,” Margaret began in a digital original shared by Bravo. “I had dinner with her two weeks before we started filming and she did not have a lot of nice things to say about Teresa and or Jennifer and then all the sudden befriends them.”
“Such a fame whore,” she continued. “She would probably sell her own mother down the river just for an ounce of fame. Jackie’s just Teresa with brains, facts, with a formal education.”
Meanwhile, after signaling “a big switch in friendships and dynamics,” Melissa too expressed frustrations with Jackie’s sudden relationship with her estranged sister-in-law.
“It’s a shame that she just decided to make all these changes in her life and not even pick up the phone once to tell me she was feeling a different way,” she noted. “We’ve been friends enough that I was owed a phone call. I feel like, that’s what you want after all the sweat and tears and how we all picked you up off the floor for so many years over your hurt for what happened?”
In her own segment, Jackie said that due to Teresa and Melissa’s feud, season 14 felt like more of a “competition series” than a friend group.
She then shared what viewers didn’t see at the start of her relationship with Teresa.
“At Jenn Fesslers’ birthday party, Teresa and I did talk for a few minutes and it started out just small talk but I think we both left the conversation feeling like, ‘Well that was pleasant,’” she revealed.
“It may have started off strategic for certain people [but] what it turned into was a really nice, beautiful friendship that has continued off-camera,” Jackie went on. “To this day, she’s the only person that I’ve spoken to on the phone today. We really are good friends. I think the amount of loyalty that’s expected of certain people is just ridiculous.”
After seeing what Margaret had to say about her in the Bravo clip, Jackie took to the comments section of a post shared by All About the Real Housewives on Instagram to share her reaction.
“That person needs to stop talking about my mother. It’s classless,” she wrote.
Elsewhere in the Bravo video, Jennifer Fessler weighed in on Jackie’s changing friendships.
“Her and Margaret started fighting and her and Melissa started to separate, and she was never that close with [Danielle Cabral] and she had these open arms of Jen Aydin and Teresa. I think she was thrilled to have it,” Jennifer admitted. “Jackie and Margaret had been having some difficulties before cameras started rolling. I was privy to that because they both would talk to me about it, [but] Jackie’s getting a lot of flack about it being so contrived.”
Although Jennifer noted that she didn’t know what the nail in the coffin was for Jackie and Margaret, she expressed hope for their future.
“What I know that they don’t know is that they will always have love in their hearts for each other. They don’t believe me, but I’m telling you, it’s true,” she insisted.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey season 14 airs Sundays at 8/7c on Bravo.
