RHONJ’s Jacqueline Laurita clarifies why she blasted Melissa Gorga for lying about ‘four nose jobs’

Jacqueline Laurita is speaking out about her fallout with Melissa Gorga and time on The Real Housewives of New Jersey after five seasons. 

While speaking about her former costar during an interview with AllAboutTRH, the TV personality, 42, set the record straight on why she called out Gorga for allegedly lying about undergoing multiple cosmetic surgeries. 

‘It wasn’t her four nose jobs that I was calling out at the dinner. That was already obvious to everyone,’ she clarified of a diss she made on their reality show back in 2016. ‘Who cares that she did procedures? Everyone on the cast does stuff.’

She continued: ‘The part you missed was that I was giving an example of how she can lie with a straight face, like she did when Andy Cohen asked her the first time on WWHL if she had a nose job and she lied straight to his face and said it was ‘contour.’

The mother-of-two went on to marvel at just ‘how easy it is for’ Gorga ‘to lie with a straight face.’

Laurita then admitted to feeling ‘upset and confused about the way Melissa turned her back on’ her on the show despite always feeling she was a ‘good and supportive friend’ to her. 

Feuding: While speaking about her former costar during an interview with AllAboutTRH , the TV personality, 42, set the record straight on why she called out Gorga for allegedly lying about undergoing multiple cosmetic surgeries; pictured in 2015

‘It wasn’t her four nose jobs that I was calling out at the dinner. That was already obvious to everyone,’ she clarified of a diss she made on their reality show back in 2016. ‘Who cares that she did procedures? Everyone on the cast does stuff’ (pictured in 2022)

‘I felt used by her. She planted seeds that I was being paranoid, when she was the one paranoid and also making me feel paranoid with the things she would tell me,’ she continued. 

Despite some viewers feeling that Gorga was simply trying to remain loyal to sister-in-law, Teresa Giudice, Laurita insisted that was not what motivated her rival.

‘It was for how the fans would view her and to also keep a wedge between us. That’s when I realized who she really is and I had no interest in ever talking to her again from that day on,’ Laurita concluded. 

Fiery: The mother-of-two went on to marvel at just ‘how easy it is for’ Gorga ‘to lie with a straight face’

Two-faced: Laurita then admitted to feeling ‘upset and confused about the way Melissa turned her back on’ her on the show despite always feeling she was a ‘good and supportive friend’ to her

‘I believe Melissa twisted the narrative on camera into steering the viewers into believing that I was the one jealous of their relationship,’ she stated. ‘The truth is…I was never jealous of their relationship. I knew how they really felt about each other and I always told Melissa (and Teresa as well) to fake it until they make it work.’

‘I had to accept that ‘reality’ wasn’t really ‘reality’ on our show anymore,’ she said, after saying she has no intention of returning to the series. 

After leaving the show, she says she has come to ‘love’ her ‘quiet, private life.’