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Melissa Gorga meet Luis Ruelas‘ brunch behavior becomes “dramatic” and “strange.”
After he and his wife Joe Gorga engaged in a heated debate with Luis and his wife Theresa Judge in the new man’s house Rachel Fuda in the latest episode of Real Housewives of New JerseyMelissa described the scene as “chaos”. Jennifer Aydin slammed him and Joe for painting a false “narrative”.
“I don’t know why he wants to talk. I don’t feel like he and I should talk,” Melissa said on the March 28 episode. RHONJ: After Show. “Maybe brother and sister.”
As Melissa had only known Luis for a year and two months, she felt his actions, including wanting to hold her hand and pushing Teresa away when he was close, were “very dramatic”.
“It’s weird,” she explained. “His extreme emotion is strange. It’s something I didn’t know I could use without thinking there was something very strange. It’s like you almost want to believe, ‘Oh he’s hurting inside,’ but it doesn’t make sense if you listen to what he said before. He had a conversation with my niece before saying we’re horrible people, and then in the next breath, he’s telling Teresa he’s wrong. Which one?”
Looking back at the interview itself, Margaret Josephs described the strange scene as a “Dr. Phil moment.”
“Listen, you can see Luis has had a lot of therapy. But that doesn’t make him a licensed therapist. I brush my teeth a thousand times. I’m not a dentist,” he said.
But Teresa doesn’t get Luis’s antics.
“I kept seeing my poor fiance keep trying and trying and trying. It was like, I felt bad for him,” she recalled. “He was tired and actually crying. He doesn’t believe in my brother’s behavior.”
Although Melissa suspects Luis wants to reiterate that he’s not in a relationship with his mother who wasn’t invited to his wedding before finally extending the invitation, Rachel notes that against her husband’s wishes, Luis ends up throwing Teresa “under the bus”.
Speaking about the dynamic between Teresa and Joe, Melissa said, “They have a horrible brother,” noting that Joe had two failed engagements because Teresa “didn’t like” the woman.
With Team Teresa, Jennifer accuses Gorgas of saying “sh-t” about Luis and claps back at Joe’s “bad seed” claims against him.
“Joe and Melissa want to keep the narrative that they are great, that they are holy, that they are wonderful, and it’s like, can’t you have sh-t? They talk about Luis. They do,” she insisted. “He asked your sister for permission. What is a bad seed? Do you think Luis is like this? Luis cried. Joe Gorga was like, ‘No. I’m Joe Gorga. You should have f-cking kissed my a– and you don’t now, I won’t make it with you.’”
And Teresa agrees.
“I think my brother wants someone to kiss a– because he thinks he’s a big celebrity. That’s what he thought,” guessed Teresa. “It’s like a flashback, it seems like he’s with my ex [Joe Giudice].”
But according to Margaret, Teresa must take responsibility for her role in the family dispute.
“Teresa can’t blame her past. Everything is someone else’s fault,” he said. “Maybe we should ask Dr. Phil Luis what is the diagnosis… But if you look at everything, if you have problems with everyone in your family, it could be you. I’m sorry. Maybe it’s just you.”
Real Housewives of New Jersey season 13 airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.