Credit: Instagram, Bravo
Andy Cohen called Luis Ruelas’ comment about Margaret Josephs’ son the “darkest moment” of the Real Housewives of New Jersey finale, and he shared why he now views ‘Housewives’ drama differently. The Bravo exec also shared more insight behind the network’s decision to scrap RHONJ’s traditional reunion.
In the finale, Luis – the husband of Teresa Giudice – addressed his feud with Margaret, who claimed he called her son at work to try and find dirt on her. After denying the accusation, he stated, “I hope Margaret and her family suffer. You know, I hope her f–king son suffers the way I suffered, the way other people in our family have suffered.”
But Luis later apologized for making the comment, and he said he was disappointed in his actions.
On the Garbage World podcast, Andy claimed Luis’ comment was the “darkest moment” on the finale. Andy said he would’ve gone “absolutely mental” if he were in Margaret’s position despite being usually “mellow yellow.”
“Possibly the darkest moment of the episode was Louie saying that he hopes that Margaret’s child suffers,” said Andy.
Andy shared that he views the Housewives drama “a little differently” now that he has a four-year-old son and two-year-old daughter.
“Let me tell you something,” he explained, via the BravoSnarkSide Instagram page. “If someone that I didn’t care for invoked either of my children’s name … that is what it would take for me to be Danielle [Cabral].”
He then quipped, “Danielle Cabral’s button is: ‘Don’t talk about my husband’s pecs.’ Mine would be if you mention my children in an unfavorable way.”
Speaking on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live, Andy then addressed the network’s decision to scrap the traditional reunion.
“We all came to the decision about the reunion separately after we saw it,” explained Andy. “Also, given the conversations we were having with all of the women who were so mired in, ‘This one’s doing that on social media and this one’s doing this,’ and it just, it was like, ‘Oh my god. This is the most unfixable group in every direction.'”
Before the season aired, an influencer claimed Teresa and Jennifer Aydin leaked plot lines about castmates.
Andy went on, “I was talking to [Chanel] Ayan last night about how reunions are meant to kind of move forward and move through issues in a way … You re-litigate them, but you want there to be resolution and there was never gonna be any resolution on any level about any of these issues, so we all just came to that separately when we saw the episode. It wasn’t like we shot it and it was like, ‘Oh my god.’ We just sat with it for a long time and then came to that.”
