The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice is reflecting on her marriage to Joe Giudice. She reveals how finding a second phone made her suspect he was cheating.
In her upcoming memoir, The Queen of New Jersey, Teresa explains why she became suspicious and revisits the moment Joe called her a deeply offensive name on camera.
Reality Blurb reported on November 8 that Teresa discusses both incidents in the book, due out November 17.
She says she never caught Joe cheating, but admits the situation left her uneasy. “Our marriage wasn’t perfect,” she writes, adding that women who have been through similar situations “always have a feeling.”
RHONJ’s Joe’s second phone made Teresa suspicious
Teresa says she found a phone Joe had with just one contact saved: an old female friend. According to Teresa, the woman was going through a difficult time in her marriage and needed “a shoulder to cry on”.
Teresa wanted answers. She says she did not want to stay with a man if she had proof he was cheating, so she called the woman and asked whether she was sleeping with Joe.
Teresa describes losing her temper during the call: “I went off.” Joe denied anything inappropriate was happening.
He told Teresa he was only “helping her out” and suggested her reaction was why he had not told her about the phone. Teresa says the situation still did not feel right, but she chose to believe him.
Teresa revisits Joe’s on-camera insult on RHONJ
The memoir also revisits a RHONJ moment when Joe called Teresa the c-word while speaking to someone on the phone.
Teresa says the episode left her deflated because viewers had seen it, and she knew she would have to discuss it at the reunion. She spent the weeks before the reunion preparing her “game face”, while Joe slept on the couch.
Teresa also says she was truthful when she told Andy Cohen that Joe had never used that word directly to her before. Even so, the incident left her “incredibly hurt”.
But the insult was not her only concern. Teresa was also focused on who Joe had been speaking to during the call, known as the Napa call.
She says she never believed his explanation that he was talking to a coworker. In the book, she makes her view clear: “Not a chance.”
Teresa says Joe later could not explain what came over him. She mentions the wine and the cameras as possible factors, but says he knew the word was unacceptable to use about the mother of his children.
The memoir revisits both incidents.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 15 is expected to premiere in December 2026 on Bravo.
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