Teresa Giudice revealed to Andy Cohen on Sunday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live that she has been in touch with Dina Manzo, 52, via text.
She sent the text when Dina’s ex-husband Thomas Manzo was convicted of hiring a reputed mobster to assault her then-boyfriend in 2015.
‘I texted her and she hearted it,’ Giudice, 52, said of her former RHONJ co-star. ‘You know, justice was served.’
Teresa didn’t want to say anything more about that slight cooling off in the so-called feud between the two women.
Their falling out allegedly stems from Dina not attending Teresa’s 2023 wedding to Luis Ruelas.
Teresa Giudice revealed to Andy Cohen on Sunday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live that she’s been in touch with her ex-friend Dina Manzo , 52, via text, pictured in 2021
She sent the text when Dina’s ex-husband Thomas Manzo was convicted of hiring a reputed mobster to assault her then-boyfriend in 2015, pictured with Manzo
Dina unfollowed Teresa on social media after the wedding, leading fans to believe the two had were feuding.
Thomas Manzo was convicted Tuesday June 4 on charges he hired a reputed mobster to assault the woman’s boyfriend (and now husband) in exchange for a free, lavish wedding reception.
A federal jury found Thomas Manzo of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey guilty of conspiracy, falsifying and concealing documents, and committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering activity.
Thomas Manzo, a 59-year-old restaurateur, faces up to 46 years in prison when he’s sentenced October 15.
Federal prosecutors said Thomas hired John Perna – whom they described as a soldier in the Lucchese Crime Family – to commit the July 2015 attack against David Cantin (who Dina married in 2017) in the parking lot of a strip mall.
Perna’s wedding reception was held the following month at the Paterson, New Jersey restaurant The Brownstone, which is partly owned by Manzo, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office branch in New Jersey said.
Manzo had been infuriated about his then-estranged wife Dina’s romance with Cantin and wanted his attackers to ‘leave a permanent facial scar’ in the planned assault, according to court docs reviewed by ABC.
Thomas and Dina got married in 2007 at The Brownstone, and the ceremony was televised on VH1’s My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding. They split up five years later.
Dina’s ex was convicted of hiring someone to assault David Cantin, pictured here with Dina
‘I texted her and she hearted it,’ Giudice, 52, said. ‘You know, justice was served,’ Dina pictured here in 2014
Teresa didn’t want to say anything more about that slight cooling off in the so-called feud between the two women, pictured here in 2022
Their falling out allegedly stems from Dina not attending Teresa’s 2023 wedding to Luis Ruelas
Dina was a regular on the The Real Housewives of New Jersey in the show’s first and second seasons in 2009 and 2010.
She made a one-off appearance on the reality show’s fourth season in 2012, and was a regular again for the show’s sixth season in 2014.
The day after the conviction Dina shared a quote to her Instagram Story.
‘I call my power back to me. I call my energy back to me. I call my magic back to me,’ the quote read. ‘I am cleansed and disconnected from anything that may drain me. I am shielded from any energy that does not serve me. I am safe. I am protected. I am whole. And so it is.’