Margaret Josephs needed me to stop ‘RHONJ’ if Luis Ruelas returned

Jackie Goldschneider claims that her ex-BFF Margaret Josephs requested her and Jenn Fessler to cease “The Actual Housewives of New Jersey” if Teresa Giudice’s husband, Luis “Louie” Ruelas, got right here once more for Season 14. 

“Margaret required, if Louie was coming once more to the present, she didn’t need to have me and Jenn Fessler to come back once more to the present,” Goldschneider, 47, recollects in an interview with Internet web page Six’s “Digital Reali-Tea” podcast. 

“She required to depart and he or she required all of us to depart collectively.”

The “Weight of Stunning” writer remembers her and Josephs’ mutual pal Fessler, 53, agreeing to such a program — which the latter confirmed in a most current interview with Leisure Tonight. 

“What occurred was — and I think the main episode, possibly you noticed me saying to Margaret, ‘I instructed you that in the occasion you do not need to have to be round these people when a lot more, neither will I …,’” Fessler instructed the outlet. “And what I meant by that was, in the occasion you are not gonna return and do the present when a lot more, then I’m not going once more and [won’t] do the present when a lot more.” 

Nonetheless, Goldschneider wasn’t down with the alleged request. 

“Jenn Fessler pointed out, ‘OK, I’ll do this for you.’ And I pointed out, ‘I can’t do this for you. I genuinely like you, having said that I’m not leaving my job given that you do not like any person,’” she says, surmising that this modify was the catalyst for the demise of her friendship with Josephs, 57. 

“I think that started each and every portion.”

Ultimately, Ruelas, 49, returned to the present alongside Giudice, 52 — as did Goldschneider, Fessler and Josephs. 

Requested to share her concepts on Josephs’ determination to stay place with Ruelas inside the combine, Goldschneider stresses her perception that the Soirée co-founder started thinking of of “RHONJ” as a “recreation” pretty than a actuality present a couple of group of mates. 

“I think she felt like she might do the present with out filming with Teresa. And I think she on top of that was taking a appear at it a tiny bit bit as a recreation, you recognize, or a contest present,” she observes. 

“Much significantly less of a buddy group and added of a contest present the location, ‘If I get adequate people onto my facet, I’ll win.’ So I think that on top of that contributed to the disconnect this season, sadly.”

All through 2023’s “RHONJ” Season 13 reunion, Josephs accused Giudice’s companion, Ruelas, of producing a threatening name to her son at operate — cementing their standing as onscreen foes. 

Just after years of feuding with Giudice, Goldschneider tells us she fashioned a “very good friendship with the collection OG earlier than cameras picked up for the present installment of the collection.

“That undoubtedly contributed to it. Nonetheless I think there was a stage of loyalty anticipated of me. Friendships have to be uncomplicated. They need to have to contribute pleasure and ease and luxury to your life. They shouldn’t be you possessing to reply for each and every portion and [have] blind loyalty,” Goldschneider says. 

“It shouldn’t be like that and I think lots was anticipated of me as a buddy.”

Josephs has produced it no secret that her when-close bond with Goldschneider is previous restore. 

“I genuinely really feel unhappy about it. I think it is unhappy, having said that I think it is bizarre,” she instructed us at BravoCon in November 2023. “It’s surprising.” 

Josephs on top of that addressed a dialog with Goldschneider in regards to the former lawyer’s memoir, revealed final fall by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

“I championed her for that e-book, I required her e-book to attain achievement. I had my quite personal e-book with Simon & Schuster [that] did unbelievably correctly and I need to have solely very good concerns for her,” the “Caviar Targets, Tuna Fish Funds” writer pointed out. 

At one particular level, Goldschneider felt Josephs took credit score for her securing a deal to create down her individual e-book — which the Macbeth Assortment creator does not perceive.

“I think she purchased quite offended when I pointed out, ‘I championed you,’ and that didn’t imply a thing behind it,” she pointed out. “And I think she was quite offended that I pointed out that.”

“The Actual Housewives of New Jersey” airs Sundays at eight p.m. ET on Bravo.