Real Housewives of New Jersey star Margaret Josephs‘former BFF, Laura Marasca Jensensaid out to him.
After a controversial meeting with him Theresa Judge and Melissa Gorgaas she points out the false rumors that Margaret has been repeating about Melissa, Laura accuses Margaret of using drugs, not paying her attorney, talking trash to Melissa and Jackie Goldschneiderjealousy, etc.
“Everyone wants to believe it’s because I want to be on the show, but it’s just the final nail in the coffin,” Laura said on the April 17 episode. Behind the Velvet Rope With David Yontef podcast of his decision to go after his former friend.
According to Laura, she and Margaret had nothing to do with the filming.
“We had parties, holiday parties… I just didn’t like the way he treated me and ignored me,” she shared.
While Laura didn’t go into specifics, she did say that Margaret didn’t like it when she “spoke” and told her that she needed a break. Then, when the break didn’t go as well as Laura had hoped, she decided not to “go into debt [Margaret] any.”
“He’s talking behind my back,” Laura said. “He’s changed, you know, everything has changed over the years and as he’s progressed [RHONJ], he’s since I think he shows who he really is … I’ve seen a lot of things where I say, ‘Is this the kind of person I want to be?’ … When you are deceitful and deceitful and you have that there, it is always there and [it’s] so much more since he appeared on the show.
Although Laura wanted to get in the picture, she believed that Margaret did not want her in the cast – even though Margaret claims RHONJ the producers didn’t want Laura.
“I really think he has a lot of deep problems. I think he’s a very jealous person… He knows that I look better than him. People like me. And he doesn’t want any competition, “suspects Laura.”
Laura even suggested that Margaret try to sabotage her potential role.
“They said I should cut my hair and cut it blonde,” she said. “She said, ‘You look like Teresa and Melissa.’ I can’t look like a Jersey housewife. I need to look more like her.
Over the years, Laura points out, Margaret has exhibited questionable behavior.
“He got into trouble,” Laura said. “He hired a lawyer. He didn’t pay. I personally got him a lawyer through someone I know who isn’t getting paid anymore… He’s always in this lawsuit, always has legal bills that he can’t pay.
Laura said that Margaret had also taken a surprising action against her RHONJ castmates, incl Siggy Flickerwhose ex-husband he allegedly met hoping to “get information”.
“He called [Jennifer Aydin] disheveled drug addicts … come from someone who told me when they were on a girls’ trip in Lake George, he took edibles with his intern or something,” said Laura.
Laura said she learned from Margaret that she was filming the girls’ trip in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, when she was accused of “doing the food”, despite being rude to Jennifer. Meanwhile, his wife Margaret, Joe Benignoaccording to Laura, smoking pot in the show was filmed in her house.
“Someone also posted that her husband was the host that was filmed at home and she apparently smoked pot,” Laura said. “And this is all after calling Jen a drug addict.”
When Margaret trash-talks Jennifer about anything new, Laura says that Margaret also bashed Melissa and Joe Gorga behind him.
“They always talk about him behind his back… Talk about how [the Gorgas] not paying bills. This is someone who was supposed to be her friend,” said Laura, adding that Margaret also felt “she was supposed to” Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip season one “instead of Melissa.”
He even reportedly targeted Melissa’s home and store.
“Margaret said, ‘…It’s filled with a bunch of sh-t. She bought all the furniture online at Wayfair,'” Laura said. “[And] I said … ‘I’m going to Envy.’ And he was like, ‘Oh, you don’t want anything there. It’s all sh-t.’ He was the one who told me that Melissa was selling fake Chanel in her store.
Regarding the meeting with Teresa and Jennifer, Laura said she wanted to tell the women that Margaret “plans to follow her family.”
“It had nothing to do with Melissa and Joe. Did it come up after? Well, it happened… and one thing led to another… [But] I’m not the one spreading rumors,” he continued. “I told Teresa and Jen, but it was in a room where no one else was and where they were not concerned.”
According to Laura, Margaret is also behind the fake rumors claiming to be Jackie’s husband, Evan Goldschneiderthis is cheating at the gym.
“Margaret started all the rumors about Jackie and Evan. She told me. I knew about it before we were on the show. It must have been like two seasons ago,” Laura shared, then clarified, “She didn’t start the rumors. She spread the rumors.
Continuing on about Margaret’s involvement with Jackie, Laura said that she told him that Jackie “asked her husband to wear a shirt” – and that Jackie and her sister “had a bad relationship and she thought that she could bring her sister. sports hall.
Margaret also allegedly went to Bravo executives to tell them, “Jackie is weak. She’s emotional. She doesn’t deserve to be on this show.'”
“Maybe they think, ‘Oh, maybe there’s something [to] this.’ And then, you know, he was demoted to a friend,” Laura recalled.
Laura then reveals that Margaret seems to be trying to get Jennifer fired.
“He told me that Jennifer would be fired. He told the executive that no one wants to film with Jennifer. That is, you are trying to get fired,” Laura explained.
Real Housewives of New Jersey season 13 airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.