She’s “loyal and lovable” — however don’t you dare name her a good friend of Jennifer Aydin’s.
Dolores Catania completely tells Web page Six she’s “accomplished” along with her “Actual Housewives of New Jersey” co-star for good due to the way in which Aydin handled her main as much as the reunion.
“The best way she spoke about me was unwarranted,” Catania says.
Although the ladies largely bought alongside whereas filming the newest installment of “RHONJ,” they started feuding from afar after Aydin branded Catania a “jerk” in a February interview on Access Hollywood’s “Housewives Nightcap” — simply weeks after Season 12 premiered.
Aydin — who criticized Catania for not defending her on the present all through her and husband Dr. Invoice Aydin’s dramatic infidelity storyline — mentioned that she hoped to “work it out” along with her castmate on the reunion.
However it was Jennifer’s dedication to hashing out their points on stage with Andy Cohen that left a foul style in Catania’s mouth.
“I did attain out to her off-camera and I did attempt to communicate to her as a good friend and she or he mentioned, ‘I’ll see you on the reunion,’” she remembers. “That was a really pivotal second for me to see that the one that I’ve caught up for a lot and really feel that I’ve been there for spoke to me like, ‘I’ll see you on the reunion.’’
Catania, who joined “RHONJ” as a full-time “Housewife” in Season 7, maintains that she has fiercely defended Jennifer, who entered the fray in Season 9, towards any adversaries — each on- and off-camera.
“I’ve been a good friend to you on the present because you’ve been on … I’ve left occasions with you. I’ve had your again whenever you had been un-defendable, whether or not you had been in entrance of me or not,” Catania, 51, says. “And that is the way in which I get handled.”
It was revealed throughout half one of many “New Jersey” reunion that Catania gave Jennifer, 45, a pep speak earlier than telling her there was no have to cry over Invoice’s 10-year-old affair coming to gentle on the fact sequence.
Catania tells Web page Six she was dissatisfied that Jennifer didn’t step in prior to provide context to her seemingly chilly remark.
“She ought to have stepped up and mentioned, ‘Pay attention, I requested her to be robust with me and I requested her to really cease me from crying.’ I’m like, ’Cease crying. Stroll on this home along with your head up and your shoulders again,’” Catania says of the tense scene filmed at her former townhouse rental.
“That’s what I instructed her, ‘As a result of you could have a very good marriage. That is one thing you bought by way of and be happy with it.’ However it wasn’t the way in which she needed to take it this season,” she provides. “So, I didn’t notice that. Sorry.”
Nevertheless, Catania is not sorry for placing the kibosh on a future friendship with Jennifer.
“I really feel prefer it’s most likely higher for each me and Jen,” she says. “The best way I left that reunion is the way in which it should keep. That is the way in which it’s. That is advantageous. I don’t should be everybody’s good friend. I’m not used to being handled like this by ladies — sorry — or anybody as a result of I don’t deserve it.”
Half three of the “Actual Housewives of New Jersey” Season 12 reunions airs Tuesday, Could 17, at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
