Family feud.
Teresa Giudice accused sister-in-law Melissa Gorga of starting the rumor about her husband, Luis Ruelas, trying to date Alexia Nepola prior to romancing her.
“My sister-in-law put it out there,” the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star exclusively told Page Six at BravoCon Friday. “She’s the one that started it.”
Ruelas added that it was “just a rumor” and that people who talk about it are “thirsty for attention.”
Nepola also addressed the rumors about her and Ruelas during this week’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live.”
“Absolutely not, we [first met] each other in Barcelona — but I was with Todd — before [Luis] was with Teresa,” the “Real Housewives of Miami” told host Andy Cohen when he asked if there was any truth to the rumor.
The reality star, 56, further revealed that at the time she didn’t know who Ruelas was.
She speculated he only approached her because he watched “RHOM.”
“We were just talking, we were staying in the same hotel, and he was just being nice and friendly,” Nepola continued. “I get a lot of attention because of my kids.”
The Bravo star added that she bonded with Ruelas over their children since they both have one with autism.
But that wasn’t the only time they ran into each other before he met Giudice.
“For whatever reason, we saw each other again in some other country that we were traveling [to],” Nepola explained.
Alexia — who wed Todd Nepola in 2021 — added that she was with her husband the entire time and he observed her interactions with Ruelas.
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“Why does anybody wanna make it more than what it is?” she questioned. “People are suspecting like, he had an agenda and he knew who [Teresa] was.”
Cohen said that Melissa mentioned the rumor during the “RHONJ” Season 13 reunion, but it was actually Margaret Josephs who initially brought it up.
Still, there’s currently bad blood between Giudice, 51, and Gorga, 44 — they haven’t spoken for nearly a year — so that could be why Giudice is putting all the blame on her brother’s wife.
Giudice and Melissa’s latest feud started after Giudice allegedly told her brother, Joe Gorga, that Melissa was cheating on him — something she later denied.
Page Six exclusively revealed that the family’s latest drama led to the Gorga clan skipping out on Giudice’s wedding to Ruelas last year.
Ruelas tied the knot with Giudice three years after she separated from her ex-husband, Joe Giudice, with whom she shares four daughters.
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