Gia Giudice Says Chapter With Joe & Melissa Gorga is “Closed” & Expresses Regret Over WWHL Comment, Plus Reveals Her Off-Camera Convo With Andy Cohen

Gia Giudice said she wishes she hadn’t named her aunt Melissa Gorga in the shady Watch What Happens Live question about the “least iconic [Housewife]” of Real Housewives of New Jersey. She also shared her off-camera convo with Andy Cohen during a commercial break, and she revealed what it was like filming Special Forces.

Gia, who stars on Bravo’s Next Gen NYC, was asked on WWHL to rank Melissa, Dolores Catania, Dina Manzo, and Jennifer Aydin from most iconic to least iconic. She said Dolores was #1, Jennifer #2, Dina #3, and Melissa was last. Though critics slammed Gia for shading her aunt, the answer seemed obvious, given her mom Teresa Giudice’s feud with Melissa and her husband, Joe Gorga, Teresa’s brother.

Speaking on My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast, Gia was asked if she gets tired of being asked about her aunt and uncle.

“Yeah,” she answered. “I think we all know the chapter’s closed. You know, I don’t even think the fans really want to hear it at this point.”

As for her answer about the ‘most to least iconic’ Housewives, Gia said, “You know what? I should have just drank. I was so frazzled because I was like, okay, what do I do? Also, Dina is an OG. So she also has had such iconic moments … I don’t want to like say that she should have been first. People still say Dina’s iconic lines. Like, ‘She wanted to skin me and wear me like last year’s Versace.’ You know, she really should have been first, and then [Dolores] and then Jen and then obviously the last one [Melissa].”

“I even said it to Andy when we went on a commercial break,” Gia added. “I was like, ‘I should have put Dina first, right?'” According to Gia, Andy agreed with her.

At one point in the podcast, Gia addressed her time on Special Forces.

“No insult to Next Gen — like, I obviously love Next Gen and love that I’m a part of it — but I’m really, really proud of Special Forces,” she said. “I have so much more appreciation now for our military forces and [the] sacrifice and training that they [go through] … I saw it firsthand. You know, I did some of the challenges [and] tasks firsthand. The [directing staff] were amazing, and they were my biggest motivators.”

But Gia admitted that the staff was “screaming in my face the whole time,” and she “cried almost every day.”

“As I’m crying, they’re like, ‘Get up the hill!’ And I’m like, oh my god … I’m gonna die,” she recalled. “But I am way more excited for Special Forces to air than Next Gen.”