See Jenn Fessler and Rachel's Full Text Conversation About the Teresa and Gia Drama
Plus, find out if the RHONJ cast members made up after their intense text conversation.
Jennifer Fessler and Rachel Fuda's friendship has remained fractured ever since the latter Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member stormed off at Danielle Cabral’s Boujie Kidz relaunch party because she was under the assumption that Jennifer was "talking sh-t," as Melissa Gorga had put it, about her husband, John Fuda.
Jennifer, however, was actually defending John amid his drama with Teresa Giudice (and in turn Gia Giudice, as she was upset that John had brought up her name when he was trying to make a point about his past).
Fast-forward to Season 14, Episode 11 (which aired July 21), and things were still tense between Jennifer and Rachel. How tense? Well, look no further than the fraught text exchange the two shared about the drama.
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What did Jen Fessler's text say?
Jennifer shared the messages while speaking to Dolores Catania, and her initial text to Rachel began, "for the record before Dolores came over Gia and Teresa asked me if John was badmouthing Gia. I could not have defended him more fiercely. I walked over to where [you] guys were taking a pic. Melissa made a snarky remark about what I was doing over there and I said actually Melissa [I] was defending John. Which I was. That's what happened."
"I was in their faces telling them they were wrong. That John would NEVER badmouth Gia," she continued. "He was giving an example. I am so frustrated and upset that you keep turning on me."
Jennifer then concluded the message by writing, in part, "I don't want to talk to Teresa about you guys but when John is accused of something my instinct is to defend him. I've finally gotten the message. I'll let anyone badmouth him and not say a thing next time."
Rachel never responded to Jennifer's lengthy text, which in turn made Jennifer not want to attend her upcoming slumber party.
However, when she failed to RSVP for said party, Rachel finally reached out. Her text read: "Hey! I just saw you aren't able to make the party this Wednesday. I hope it doesn't have anything to do with me not responding to your message. I was hoping we could talk on Wednesday at my house in person."
Are Jenn Fessler and Rachel still feuding over the John Fuda, Teresa, and Gia drama?
Jennifer ultimately decided to attend Rachel's slumber party on RHONJ Season 14, Episode 11. Once there, she and Rachel apologized to one another, hugged, and made up.
"I feel like the toxicity of this group is contagious, and Rachel and I caught it," Jennifer explained in a confessional interview. "So it's just natural that we'd be going for each other's throats — except it's not natural because I love her and I know she loves me."
Are Jenn Fessler and Rachel Fuda friends today?
Though the two reconciled on RHONJ Season 14, Episode 11, Jennifer and Rachel are currently not on speaking terms.
Rachel told BravoTV.com in an interview filmed on May 15, "If you had given me a bingo card, none of this was on it for Season 14. My relationship with Jenn Fessler was surprising, disappointing, and something that I really wasn’t expecting … We haven’t spoken [in] almost five months.”
In July, Rachel provided another update on her friendship with Jennifer.
"Jenn and I have not spoken,” she said on Sirius XM’s Reality Checked With Kiki Monique. “I don’t wish her any ill will, I don’t hate her, it’s none of that. I’m good right now.”
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