In reclaiming her voice, The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jackie Goldschneider is no longer submitting to the “blind loyalty” she felt her former BFF Margaret Josephs expected of her. While Bravoholics have been privy to some sort of friendship-ending feud between the two women, most assumed it had everything to do with Goldschneider’s budding relationship with Josephs’ sworn enemy Teresa Giudice . However, tensions between the once-close pals appeared high from the very first episode of Season 14, meaning something deeper must be at play.
“I think that back almost a year ago, there was an incident that I won’t go into, where I felt like she showed me that I was not that important to her anymore,” Goldschneider told DECIDER when asked if something happened before filming started. “As time went by, other things would happen where I felt sort of like when my status on the show changed, my importance to her changed. And I was okay with that but I needed to take a step back from that relationship.
” Everything came to a head during the May 26 episode of RHONJ when Josephs defended Danielle Cabral for not inviting Goldschneider to her party. Their argument escalated when Josephs called Goldscheider a “disgrace” for failing to check in on the first anniversary of her ex-husband’s death and neglecting to give her an early copy of her book, which Goldschneider has since refuted, telling DECIDER that she gifted the entire cast an early copy once it was com.
