Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey may have brought the cast back together for the last time in an unorthodox ‘reunion’ show that split the cast in half.
Following last week’s explosive Season 14 finale – where Jackie Goldschneider admitted talking to an ex of Teresa Giudice’s husband Luis Ruelas and Danielle Cabral launching herself over a table to attack Jennifer Ayden – a traditional reunion was not filmed for the first time in the show’s history.
Instead, the cast returned to the Rails Steakhouse – site of the finale blow-up – for a special entitled Off the Rails, with the cast split into two factions, with the finale seemingly the last time the whole cast will ever be together, amid reports of a complete reboot and a report that filming won’t even start until 2025.
One room featured Giudice, Ayden, Goldschneider and Dolores Catania, while the other featured Cabral, Margaret Josephs, Rachel Fuda and Melissa Gorga.
The bizarre reunion ended with one last bombshell as well, with Rachel Cuda telling her room that she’s pregnant.
Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey may have brought the cast back together for the last time in an unorthodox ‘reunion’ show that split the cast in half
The bizarre reunion ended with one last bombshell as well, with Rachel Cuda telling her room that she’s pregnant.
Jennifer Fessler arrived last and was told who was in both rooms, and she chose the Cabral/Josephs/Fuda and Gorga room.
Cabral was asked by Josephs if she has talked with Giudice since the finale and she said she hadn’t spoken with her since December or January.
‘We were supposed to get together for dinner right around Christmastime. We’re nominated for a People’s Choice award, and my girlfriend sends me a screenshot of her posting a picture of the cast with our faces scratched out,’ Cabral said.
‘And we just were texting. I said, I’m taking a step back from you. And that was it,’ Cabral said.
Back in the other room. Goldschneider asks Giudice if she ever found out what Danielle’s ‘beef’ with her was, and Giudice said no.
‘No, and after watching the season, nothing ever happened with the two of us. Then we start promoting the show and I hear that she has a problem with me. And I’m like, you know what? Now, I have nothing to say to her,’ Giudice says.
When Fessler arrives, Cabral says, ‘All right, so we waited a really long time for you, and I want to watch the episode. I want to know what you think now that you watched the whole season back and you were riding hard for Jenn coming at me.’
When Fessler arrives, Cabral says, ‘All right, so we waited a really long time for you, and I want to watch the episode. I want to know what you think now that you watched the whole season back and you were riding hard for Jenn coming at me.’
Fessler insists she’s, ‘not ready to talk about it yet,’ but just moments later she admitted she was wrong.
When Fessler arrives, Cabral says, ‘All right, so we waited a really long time for you, and I want to watch the episode. I want to know what you think now that you watched the whole season back and you were riding hard for Jenn coming at me.’
Fessler insists she’s, ‘not ready to talk about it yet,’ but just moments later she admitted she was wrong
‘And by the way, watching it back, I was wrong. Jen absolutely pushed you. What happened that night, now that I have seen it live in action, I don’t blame you. I regret defending Jen Aydin in that fight.’
Cabral admitted, ‘That’s really all I wanted to hear,’ as Fessler added, ‘Seeing it was a surprise for me and a disappointment,’ as they toast to each other.
Fuda then cleared the air with Fessler, saying, ‘I don’t hate you. And it’s so unfortunate, like, what’s transpired between the two of us. And seeing the season back, there’s so many things I genuinely feel, like, hurt about. And I feel like I was really full into our friendship and you weren’t.
They show footage of Fessler hugging Giudice as Fuda looked on angry, as Fessler admitted, ‘Did I hug her? I did. That didn’t make me best friends with her or it didn’t make me have your back less. I don’t want this, Rachel.’
Rachel admitted, ‘No, I don’t either,’ as Gorga says, ‘Aw. See, guys?’ Fessler adds, ‘I hope that it’s not just this meeting that we can get back.’
They both hug it out as Cabral jokes, ‘Next time on the Real Housewives of New Jersey, they’ll be killing each other.’
They play back the awkward fight Catania and Josephs had as many from both rooms admit that they’ve never seen Catania that angry before.
Josephs admitted they held a ‘reunion review’ session and Catania got extremely upset that she wasn’t invited, though Josephs insisted that she did.
Fessler insists she’s, ‘not ready to talk about it yet,’ but just moments later she admitted she was wrong
Cabral admitted, ‘That’s really all I wanted to hear,’ as Fessler added, ‘Seeing it was a surprise for me and a disappointment,’ as they toast to each other
Fuda then cleared the air with Fessler, saying, ‘I don’t hate you. And it’s so unfortunate, like, what’s transpired between the two of us. And seeing the season back, there’s so many things I genuinely feel, like, hurt about. And I feel like I was really full into our friendship and you weren’t’
‘Why did she just get so mad?’ Gorga asks, while Catania herself covers her face in the room, as Cabral added, ‘I have never seen her get that mad.’
Catania asks Giudice, Goldschneider and Aydin if she was, ‘f***ing invited to this thing,’ and they all say no as Catania adds, ‘You know I don’t get like that for nothing.’
In the other room, Josephs wonders if Catania thought she was, ‘trying to make her look like a bad friend.’
Catania says she’s going to go into the other room, because she knows Josephs is probably upset after seeing her beloved dog, who has since passed away, which was the only time during the entire episode that someone else went into the other room.
‘I came because I know to see Bella must have been very hard,’ Catania says as Josephs says, ‘I know. That was hard. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.’
Gorga says she doesn’t understand why she was so mad and Catania said, ‘I was mad because she didn’t ask me to go. We remember things differently. And I didn’t like the way it was coming across.’
Josephs admits, ‘But I wasn’t trying to make you look like a bad friend. Because I was like I didn’t know what you said to them.’
Catania says, ‘ I don’t have to answer to them. It was more like I felt like you were trying to make me look like a liar.’
In the other room, Josephs wonders if Catania thought she was, ‘trying to make her look like a bad friend’
‘Why did she just get so mad?’ Gorga asks, while Catania herself covers her face in the room, as Cabral added, ‘I have never seen her get that mad’
Catania asks Giudice, Goldschneider and Aydin if she was, ‘f***ing invited to this thing,’ and they all say no as Catania adds, ‘You know I don’t get like that for nothing.’
Catania says, ‘ I don’t have to answer to them. It was more like I felt like you were trying to make me look like a liar’
Josephs says, ‘Yeah, but I wasn’t trying to make you look like a liar,’ as Catania adds, ‘It wasn’t a big deal whether I was invited to that or not. It was more the principle of it for me.’
Josephs asks how Goldschneider is doing in that room and Catania says she’s, ‘doing OK,’ as Josephs says, ‘Delusion is a real thing I guess.’
Catania leaves and Josephs asks if anyone else would be willing to go into the other room, but nobody wants to.
During the finale when Cabral mentions the ‘last supper,’ Gorga says in the room,’ That’s tonight,’ seemingly insinuating that this incarnation of the show will be over after this special.
They show Teresa getting ready for the last supper as her husband Luis Ruelas tells Teresa, ‘Tell her to stay away from our family. And you know what? I hope Margaret and her family suffer. You know, I hope her f***ing son suffers,’ which stuns both sides of the group.
Josephs says she was, ‘horrified’ while in the other room Catania says, ‘Luis is gonna get a lot of s**t for that, Teresa.’
‘I don’t care. Listen, my kid suffered. My daughter suffered. My step-son suffered,’ Giudice said but Catania still said that was wrong.’
‘He was upset. People make mistakes. I know he did not mean to say that. I’ll make sure he says, you know, sorry,’ Giudice admitted.
During the finale when Cabral mentions the ‘last supper,’ Gorga says in the room,’ That’s tonight,’ seemingly insinuating that this incarnation of the show will be over after this special
They show Teresa getting ready for the last supper as her husband Luis Ruelas tells Teresa, ‘ Tell her to stay away from our family. And you know what? I hope Margaret and her family suffer. You know, I hope her f***ing son suffers,’ which stuns both sides of the group
Josephs says she was, ‘horrified’ while in the other room Catania says, ‘Luis is gonna get a lot of s**t for that, Teresa
Back in the other room, Gorga says, ‘That was probably the lowest low I’ve ever seen said on the Real Housewives of New Jersey.’
They all watch the scene where Cabral flings herself at Aydin, and Fessler leaving after that scene, as she admitted she, ‘just got a face lift’ and didn’t want to get, ‘glass to my face.’
Fessler says to Cabral, ‘I understand you being furious, but I’m sure you wish you hadn’t gotten to that point and jumped over the table.’
Cabral shocks the room though when she says, ‘I regret… not killing her,’ as Fessler is stunned.
‘You and I are very different,’ Cabral adds, as Fessler says, ‘It’s not different. I understand you being furious, but the violent piece of it, I’m sure you regret.’
Cabral admits, ‘I will say I will never let somebody get you to that point ever again. Will I have self-control moving forward in my life as a 39-year-old mother of two? Yes.’
They show the scene where Goldschneider admitted to Giudice that she met with Ruelas’ ex as Josephs accuses her of leaking stuff to the press, but Goldschneider says she ‘never leaked s**t.’
Margaret insists in her room that she didn’t leak the warrior video either but Goldscheider says Margaret was talking to the ex, ‘way way before.’
They all watch the scene where Cabral flings herself at Aydin, and Fessler leaving after that scene, as she admitted she, ‘just got a face lift’ and didn’t want to get, ‘glass to my face.’
Cabral shocks the room though when she says, ‘I regret… not killing her,’ as Fessler is stunned
Cabral admits, ‘I will say I will never let somebody get you to that point ever again. Will I have self-control moving forward in my life as a 39-year-old mother of two? Yes’
The finale episode ends as Catania says, ‘This group is no longer a family,’ adding, ‘I look at this sit-down as a death.’
After the episode ends, Goldschneider says, ‘It is what it is. It’s done. Where do we go from here?’
Jackie says in the other room that she never had any part in leaking things to bloggers
‘I met with the ex in February of ’21. She sent me the warrior video after it was already in someone else’s hand. Like, I had no part in leaking anything for her,’ Jackie insists.
Jackie thinks that the ex must have leaked the video though it is unclear how it exactly leaked.
Aydin says she can’t move forward with Cabral because she hasn’t apologized for the attack at the last supper.
Goldschneider knows that Giudice and Gorga will never reconcile but asked if there was a way forward with Josephs.
‘If she, um, gets on her knees, and begs me, and says sorry for what she’s done. It’s been a hard four years. Like, look how many people this woman’s tried to destroy. You know, it’s been tough. Louie and I, we’ve been through a lot. But thank God we made it through. It made us stronger,’ Giudice says.
Aydin says she can’t move forward with Cabral because she hasn’t apologized for the attack at the last supper
Cuda ends the special with a final bombshell, stating in the room, ‘There’s a lot of life to be had… considering I’m pregnant!’
Gorga says, ‘ It sucks. But at the same time, I couldn’t be happier in a weird way, to, like, be over. I feel relieved.’
Giudice adds, ‘There’s a lot of memories, good and bad. This has been a part of my life since 2010. There’s just so many emotions when you watch it all. But what I see there is done. – The truth came out. I feel vindicated.’
Goldschneider says in confession, ‘It’s sad but I think at the same time, I think it’s time for things to change.’
Josephs adds, ‘I think this finale was exactly what it was, a final blow of good versus evil.’
Catania says, ‘This is no longer a group of friends. There’s a division that can never be mended. I mean, where things stand right now is where they’re pretty much going to stay.’
Cuda ends the special with a final bombshell, stating in the room, ‘There’s a lot of life to be had… considering I’m pregnant!’
