Teresa Giudiceis staying positive amidJoe Giudice‘songoing deportation battle.
TheReal Housewives of New Jerseystar — who shares daughters Gia, 18, Gabriella, 14, Milania, 13, and Audriana, 10, with her husband Joe — toldEntertainment Tonighton Thursday that she and her family are “hanging in there.”
“I am doing good,” she told the outlet. “My daughters are doing well. We’re hanging in there.”
“They are doing good, thank god,” Teresa, 47, continued, referencing her daughters. “They are pretty amazing, strong, young women. I guess they get it from their mommy.”
“It’s a tough time right now, so just being with my daughters [helps],” she added.
Joe, 49, has been away from the New Jersey home he shares with Teresa and their four kids since he began serving his 41-month sentence for mail, wire and bankruptcy fraud in March 2016. (Joe and Teresa wereindicted in 2013when they were accused of hiding their fortune in a bankruptcy filing; Teresa wasreleased from federal prisonin 2015 after serving 11 months of a 15-month sentence for fraud.)
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He wasreleased from prisonthis past March but has been held in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Clinton County Correctional Center in Pennsylvania, awaiting a decision on his deportation ruling.
In October, an immigration court ruled todeport Joeto hisnative Italyafter his prison sentence. (Even though he has lived in the United States since he was a child, henever obtained American citizenship, and immigrants can be deported if they are convicted of “a crime of moral turpitude” or an “aggravated felony,” according to U.S. law.) His requests to appeal the deportation ruling have thus farbeen denied. A final decision is pending.
On Tuesday, Joe’s legal teamfiled a petition requesting that he be allowed to move to Italyas he awaits the court’s final decision. A request toawait the results back in his New Jersey homewas previously denied.
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During a heated phone call, Joe claimed he never wanted to walk down the aisle when he and Teresa wed 20 years ago, saying, “Alright, like I even wanted to get married? No.”
His comment left Teresa frustrated. “See what I get?” she told her eldest daughter, Gia, who was listening in on the phone conversation.
“Teresa was in Miami for a charity event with a large group of friends, both men and women,” said Teresa’s attorney, James Leonard Jr. “The photos show one of those friends helping Teresa out of the venue and to her car. She had some wine and she was wearing heels.”
Leonard insisted the interaction was brief and completely amicable.
“That’s the real story. There is no cheating, no divorce,” he said. “End of story.”
The trailer also referenced Joe’s ongoing deportation battle.
“I’m getting deported and that’s all there is to it,” the father of four said in the clip, as Gia sobbed and said, “I don’t know if I’m ready to let him go.”
Season 10 ofThe Real Housewives of New Jerseypremieres Nov. 6 at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
source: people.com
