Mamma Mia!
Melissa and Joe Gorga’s marital problems came to a head on Wednesday’s episode of ‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey’ when Joe declared that he and Melissa had ‘grown apart’.
“It’s just life, it’s good,” he added.
The couple’s quarrel over dinner exploded when Melissa walked out in front of Joe at the end of the night to get to their vehicle. (Yes, really.) Joe claims that Melissa was no longer the housewife he married, and at one point warned her, “Be careful what you say, because I’ll never talk to you again.”
Melissa, 42, started shouting back that he was ‘spoiled’ and that she had ‘kissed his ass’ for years.
The outburst was an about-face from earlier when she tried to reassure Joe by saying, ‘If I have a little success in my own life, it’s not against you. Let your wife have a little thing that is my own. That does not mean I do not love you. ‘
RHONY cast members Margaret Josephs and Jackie Goldschneider – and their respective husbands, Joe Benigno and Evan – tried to ease the situation in the car and offered the couple support when they returned to the Gorgas shoreline.
While the two buried the hatchet to celebrate the late Giacinto Gorga in Wednesday’s episode, the argument returned in the mid-season “RHONJ” preview, in which Joe told Melissa that he was “done” with their marriage
The jealous boutique owner Melissa and Joe married in 2004 and share three children: Antonia, 15; Gino, 13; and Joey, 10.
Melissa admitted to Page Six in February that the couple had a difficult time, such as a year and a half ‘which’ started just before the pandemic ‘.
“I feel like I’m becoming more and more independent in certain ways, it’s really a struggle for him,” she added. “I hate it. It should not be a struggle and it really is. We are really going through it and we are very raw and genuine and honest with it. So you will have to see how it all unfolds.”
“The Real Housewives of New Jersey” airs Wednesday night at 9pm ET on Bravo.