Blood may run thicker than water, butTeresa Giudicedoesn’t want anything coming in between her and her children — including other family members.
When news broke on Oct. 10 that her husbandJoe Giudicewill bedeported to his native Italy— he emigrated to America as a child but never obtained citizenship — at the completion of his prison sentence next year, Teresa wasn’t the one to tell her eldest daughter, Gia.
“My daughter [Gia] found out and then I had to tell my other two daughters. It was just — it was not a good day,” Teresa, 46, tells PEOPLE.
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“I was pretty annoyed at him at first,” Teresa admits about her brother spilling the beans.
“He apologized right away. He said, ‘I’m sorry,’ ” recalls Teresa, who was thinking at the time: “Just wait till you speak to me before calling my child.”
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After Gia, 17, learned the news, she immediately called theReal Housewives of New Jerseystar.
” ‘Mommy, what happened?’ And then I told her,” Teresa says of their conversation. “And then she left school. She didn’t want to be at school anymore.”
Teresa then informed daughters Gabriella, 14, andMilania, 12, but still has yet to tellAudriana, 9. “She’s too young,” she says of her smallest child.
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Joe, 46, iscurrently serving out a 41-month prisonsentence for mail, wire and bankruptcy fraud that began in March 2016. He is set to be released in March 2019.
The family is working to appeal the judge’s ruling in the hopes of Joe returning home to New Jersey when he completes his time behind bars.
She adds of her daughters, “They know we’re gonna fight it. They know mommy is doing everything she can.”
“They know I’m doing everything I can,” the star adds. “So that’s it. That’s all I can do.”
source: people.com
