RHONJ’s star Margaret Josephs dubs Louie Ruelas “evil to the bone” and blames him for Teresa Giudice’s friendship woes with Dina Manzo. Plus, she compares Louie to Joe Giudice and more!
While appearing on the August 29 episode of Taste of Taylor, Margaret Josephs continued to trash talk Teresa Giudice and her husband, Louie Ruelas.
The RHONJ star started by comparing Louie Ruelas to Teresa Giudice’s first husband, Joe Giudice. This is odd since Margaret never appeared on the New Jersey Housewives franchise when Teresa and Joe were a couple. When Margaret joined RHONJ, Joe Giudice was already in the process of serving his four-year prison sentence.
According to Margaret, Joe Giudice and Louie Ruelas have asserted control over the RHONJ OG during their marriages and, as a result, have received her blind loyalty. Margaret accuses Louie of “programming” Teresa and suggests he’s not a “real man.”
“I wasn’t around for the Joe Giudice days. But he has kind eyes. Maybe he’s not always the sharpest. He made mistakes and all of these things, but with that being said, he’s not evil to the bone. There’s a big difference,” Margaret said of Louie and Joe.
She continued, “Joe Giudice, every time he FaceTimes, everything else, he loves his daughters, he made big mistakes, he’s paid for his mistakes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him say the horrible things that Luis has said.”
Margaret notes that Louie and Joe are “very different.” According to Marge, a prime example of this is that she believes Louie has caused fractures in several of Teresa’s closest relationships, including her longstanding friendship with Dina Manzo.
“When you’re going against every single person in your life, relationships have been fractured, all anybody said to her was just ‘Keep your eyes open.’ She’s not close with Dina anymore. I don’t know what happened there but when you’re losing relationships, you’re not close with your brother anymore, I did not do one thing to her. I just said, ‘Get ahead of things.’ I asked questions. I didn’t put anything out there,” Margaret shared.
“No one’s allowed to question her. No one’s allowed to say anything. She thinks no one wants her to be happy. Everybody only wished her happiness and wanted her to have a good life,” she continued.
“I think she hasn’t stayed humble and that’s really what happened. It’s okay to have one person and an ex in your life who’s crazy. Everybody’s not crazy. When it’s everybody else, it’s you. It can’t be everybody else,” Margaret added.
The RHONJ star also accused Louie of “programming” Teresa to hate her.
“Teresa has been programmed to hate me, and it was me, and she believed it all along. It was me, so she was like, ‘Margaret, Margaret, Margaret.’ She was programmed against me [by Luis] the whole time,” she alleged.
Real Housewives of New Jersey isn’t expected to return for season 15 until late 2025 or early 2026.
