Actual Housewives of New Jersey star and actress Teresa Giudice hasn’t change into a stranger to the buddies she made whereas behind bars.
Throughout a Wednesday, September 24, look on “The Viall Recordsdata” podcast, Giudice, 53, informed the present’s host she retains in contact with a handful of the ladies she met in jail, even though a couple of individuals weren’t all the time her largest fan.
“Everybody was very nice to me,” Giudice stated. “I imply, pay attention, there was a couple of women that will give me a grimy look. And I used to be like, ‘Actually, you don’t wish to do this.’ You recognize? I’m like, ‘I’m actually pissed off that I’m right here and also you don’t — like, don’t even come close to me.’”
As a substitute, Giudice continued, “I actually simply saved to myself. … And I nonetheless discuss to, as a matter of reality, I had lunch with two of the women that I used to be in there with.”
In whole, she added, “I nonetheless be in contact with three of them.”
Giudice served 11 months of a 15-month sentence after pleading responsible to 1 depend of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, one depend of chapter fraud by concealment of belongings, one depend of chapter fraud by false oaths, and one depend of chapter fraud by false declarations. She was launched from the Federal Correctional Establishment-Danbury in December 2015.
Regardless of the odd soiled look, Giudice additionally stated that discord didn’t go each methods. “I used to be pleasant with everybody,” she defined. “Everybody was so good to me. And I hate to all the time discuss this, that simply to say it, ‘trigger it’s, I don’t need it to outline me.”
Giudice has additionally supplied her help to her ex-husband, Joe Giudice, who requested President Donald Trump for a pardon in June 2025. Joe, 53, was deported to Italy after he was launched from jail in March 2019.
“I’m Joe Giudice. I served my time, and I’ve been deported from the U.S. for practically a decade,” Joe wrote through Instagram. “I used to be raised in Jersey, I’m a father of 4 wonderful daughters, and I simply wish to be allowed to go to them once more. President Trump, I respect you and I’m asking for a second probability. @realdonaldtrump @donaldjtrumpjr.”
Teresa commented on the put up: “🙏❤️” and the pair’s daughter Gia Giudice wrote, “I like you🙏🏻♥️.”
In Could 2025 Teresa admitted on Gia’s “Informal Chaos” podcast that she thought the costs towards herself and Joe have been a joke at first.
“When all of it occurred, I didn’t know. I assumed it was all a joke. For me anyway,” she defined. “Together with your father, clearly I knew. For the federal government to come back knocking in your door, there was one thing occurring.”
She additionally recalled the day authorities have been ready for her and Joe at their residence. “I used to be by no means arrested, by no means handcuffed, by no means shackled. Thanks, God. No less than that was one good factor.”
The Giudices filed for chapter in 2009 and claimed $11 million in debt. The pair have been indicted on fraud expenses in 2014, and Teresa filed for divorce from Joe in 2019. Their divorce was finalized in September 2020.
