The Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga are coming together with their families this holiday season!
Melissa, 46, confirmed she and sister-in-law Teresa, 53, will spend Christmas together after ending their bitter, years-long family feud.
“Yes, we will, at my house,” Melissa responded when Peacock’s Reality Hot Seat host Justin Sylvester asked on the Sunday, December 7, episode whether they plan to spend the holidays together.
Fellow guest Kate Chastain then declared, “It’s a Christmas miracle!”
Meanwhile, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay asked whether the Christmas festivities will be filmed by Bravo cameras.
“No,” Melissa confirmed before quipping, “I know. Bravo, where you at?”
She went on to share, “It’s kind of nice to do it without the cameras, I have to be honest. We need this time, this healing moment.”
Melissa and Teresa’s rocky relationship was well-documented on RHONJ, resulting in Melissa and husband Joe Gorga — Teresa’s brother — not attending Teresa’s wedding to Luis “Louie” Ruelas in 2022.
A source told Luxury Handbag Shopping in November that the estranged family members had met up in November in order to mend fences.
“The meeting went fine,” one source said. “The conversation was about moving forward from the show drama. They are going to move forward, but it’s not going to be overnight.”
Later that month, Melissa and Teresa opened up to Us about their reunion at BravoCon in Las Vegas.
“I saw my husband’s relief, and for me, that’s the most important thing. It’s the siblings, and it’s the kids, and this trickles down,” Melissa told Us. “To see the relief in Joe’s eyes and in his face, to me, I’m like, ‘I’m game. Let’s go. Let’s do this.’”
“We can’t really hash it out too deep, because we’ll just keep circling back,” she added. “It’s better to just say, ‘Listen, we’ve all made some mistakes here, and it’s time to move forward.’ We are trying to move forward and learn about life a little bit.”
Melissa shared, “This is just going on for too long. Obviously, there’s been some talks and some time for everyone to think about what we’re really doing. It’s time for it to end.”
Teresa, meanwhile, shut down speculation that she had reconciled with her brother simply for the cameras.
“Ask my brother, I’m the type that holds grudges. I’m very old school,” Teresa told Us at BravoCon. “For me to do this, it’s real. He said he was waiting for me because he knew how upset I was about things.”
“People who say that have a mean heart. I’m just saying, a mean soul,” she added. “Everybody should want family to be together. I want to show America what a real Italian family looks like. My ex’s family? They are all together, united. That’s what I always wanted. I want to show America that we could be united, and I want to show our children that too. It’s really important.”
RHONJ is currently on an indefinite hiatus after season 14 aired in 2024. According to Teresa, she isn’t concerned about whether she returns for a potential season 15.
“If they pick me, or they pick my brother, I’ll be so happy for them,” she told Us. “It is what it is. Whatever God wants. When one door closes, another one opens.”
