Luis Ruelas officially lost his temper and insulted his brother-in-law, Joe Gorga, on Tuesday’s episode of “Real Housewives of New Jersey.”
“[Do] Do you know what it’s like for me to be calm in the last three months around an animal like that? Ruelas asked his then-fiancée, Teresa Giudice, about his brother.
Ruelas told Giudice that he does it because “I’m not going to stoop to the fucking trash that does that.”
Giudice gave more details about Ruelas’s feelings in a confessional.
“Poor guy,” she said. “She’s been taking it and taking it, and I feel horrible because it’s my family like I’m ashamed. I’m ashamed.”
The 50-year-old mother of four explained to her future husband, 48, that she “always wanted” a relationship with her younger brother, but is “over” and “tired of being hurt.”
“We’re getting married and after that, I’m not going to let anyone else do something like that to you,” the co-founder of Digital Media Solutions told him firmly.
Ruelas’s disdain for the 43-year-old Gorga only seems to increase later in the episode when Giudice claims that his brother has not returned his phone calls.
“It’s happening right now on purpose, because we’re getting married, and it’s silly, it’s a shame that I feel so bad for you,” Ruelas said before preparing for a group party.
The father-of-two added that, more than anything, he “was insulted” when Joe and his wife, Melissa Gorga, told Giudice that he looked “miserable” at a group event earlier in the season.
“Meanwhile, you see her [Giudice’s] happiness, you see her vulnerability, you see her living her best life right now, and you’re going to say you look miserable? Ruelas said as he tensed up.
He came to the conclusion that Joe would rather see his sister “broken down” and needing him or “projecting her own silliness onto you”.
“Your brother is devilishly calculated by everything he does that he’s actually thinking about how to hurt you. It’s disgusting,” he continued.
Giudice asked her fiancé if he plans to talk to Joe at the group party later that night, to which Ruelas quipped, “I’d like to talk to your brother as much as I want to talk to a rat in the street.”
“I find him boring, like I wouldn’t even share a glass of water with him, it’s disgusting,” Ruelas continued.
“I have shown your brother nothing but sincerity, love. I verbally handed him over saying, ‘You are the patriarch of this family, not me.’
Ruelas theorized that Joe is “threatened” by him and accused him of “manipulating” and “misleading” his older sister.
“I can’t stand being around that anymore,” he continued. “I don’t even want your brother to come to our wedding, because I don’t want that energy in a beautiful setting.”
The intense conversation ended with Ruelas telling Giudice that he is “removing” her from Gorgas’ “snake pit.”
“I’ve never heard Luis talk like that before, but I don’t blame him at all,” Giudice said in a confessional. “If things were to change, I would be very upset if his sisters treated me this way.”
In another part of the intense conversation, Ruelas said that he is “praying[ing] God” that there are no “fights” at the party later because Giudice “is not going to recognize me”.
“I’m done, man. It’s scary what can happen tonight,” Ruelas said.
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Despite hoping they won’t have to confront Joe before their wedding, the preview for next week’s final episode shows the two men locked in an explosive argument.
“I don’t give a shit, because I’m a winner. I’m winning,” Ruelas yells as he stares into the camera.
Meanwhile, one of the other husbands holds Joe back as he yells at Ruelas, “Get back!”
The confrontation, in addition to months of other disputes, eventually led Gorga to walk out on Ruelas and Giudice’s wedding last August.
The “Real Housewives of New Jersey” airs Tuesdays at 9 pm ET on Bravo.