Could Jacqueline have taken an anti-Teresa stance because of Melissa? It was rumored and brought up on the reunion that Jacqueline and Chris Laurita did not meet at a trade show in Chicago as they have said. All speculation: It’s been said that Chris met Jacqueline as a stripper in Las Vegas. It’s also been said that he was engaged to be married to a close friend of Dina’s when he met Jacqueline. It’s been rumored that Chris broke it off with his fiancée when Jacqueline got pregnant with CJ and they had a shot-gun wedding following that. They did in fact have a very informal wedding in which Jacqueline wore pants and a shirt and it was held in a park. Should the stripper rumors be true, maybe Jacqueline feels some sympathy for Melissa with the way she and Joe might have met. Maybe they share a bond over being strippers in a past life and trying to pretend as if it never happened. Jacqueline has stated over and over again that Teresa is jealous and hates her sister-in-law. Much like the relationship she has with Dina? Dina reportedly hated Jacqueline because she adored Chris’s fiancée before Jacqueline came into the picture. The two had a kind of shaky relationship in the first season that resulted in Jacqueline defending her friend, Danielle over her sister-in-law Dina. It became apparent that the two may not like each other as much as they let on. Maybe Jacqueline sees these similarities of herself and Dina with Teresa and Melissa and can sympathize more with Melissa in situation. Jacqueline is the Melissa of her family and they could have possibly bonded over it. Now they are both accused of living above their means with both facing financial issues of some kind.
So could that be would Jacqueline try to blow the whistle on Teresa at the P.F.S.? When she found out that Teresa was behind exposing Melissa’s secret past that was similar to Jacqueline’s, she wanted to protect Melissa’s image much in the same way she hoped someone would protect hers. Allegedly, Caroline and her family have known about Jacqueline’s stripper past for years and Caroline used to tell Teresa about it. This is what Teresa basically said on the season 4 reunion. Danielle Staub called Jacqueline some name that alluded to her being a Vegas stripper and has stated many times over on Twitter that Jacqueline was a dancer but she asked Danielle not to talk about it on camera and Danielle obliged. On the season 4 reunion Joe Giudice said that Chris told him that he met Jacqueline as a stripper in Vegas. Chris corrected him and said that they met at a trade show in Chicago. In my opinion, this seems like the most over-rehearsed story that I have ever heard. I have never seen proof that they met either way (or seen proof of much of anything for this whole story) so who knows. All I do know is even the allegations against both Melissa and Jacqueline could result in a bond and a common disdain for Teresa for being a part of the stripper-gate incident.
Jacqueline said many times over after the fight at her house that she wanted a relationship with Teresa that was real. She felt like Teresa was being fake and that their once great friendship had turned into something that was not genuine. Teresa seemed very upset and stunned after Jacqueline attacked her and told her that she needed to distance herself from her and her family. Jacqueline said she was upset too but she saw Teresa doing one thing and then saying another and that she was fake. She felt hurt that Teresa never talked to her about her own children and life and was further hurt because Jacqueline was worrying herself sick over Teresa and the things she would read in the magazines. Chris Laurita even said that the Giudices were basically ungrateful because Chris was the one who offered to buy all of their furniture when it went up for Sherriff’s sale (which never happened). None of this adds up for me and it seems that the Lauritas are trying to paint themselves as saints who care so much about their friends who don’t give a crap about them. When in reality, if you know your friend is going through so much, why poor on the guilt? Not everyone is the same and we all deal with problems differently. Teresa had a lot on her plate and the way she dealt with it was to pretend it wasn’t happening and she didn’t want to get into it much with her friends. Why couldn’t Jacqueline understand that? Why did she have to be selfish and personalize it? It wasn’t about her, but she made it that way.
Jacqueline has quite a big issue with Teresa’s legal and financial issues as well. She has Direct Messaged and responded to many people on twitter about it (as well as informing fans that Joe Giudice has had many trysts…) and when Teresa said it was the same thing as her financial problems at the reunion, Jacqueline tried to make it very clear that her husband’s business’ bankruptcy was nothing like Giudices’. She tried her best to make the Giudices look like frauds and bad people when in fact what she and her husband and his brother and wife are accused of doing by the trustees for the Signature Apparel lawsuit is just as dirty–if it is true. I think Jacqueline is the master of deflection and loves that she is able to take the attention away from herself and put Teresa on the spot instead.
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