Teresa Giudice shared an unexpected announcement about the state of her long-running feud with Joe and Melissa Gorga on Friday at BravoCon 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 53-year-old Real Housewives Of New Jersey star — who sported a nearly unrecognizable visage and striking new blond hair — revealed during the Housewife2Housewife panel at Caesars Palace that she has finally put aside her differences with her 51-year-old brother and 46-year-old sister-in-law.
‘We have all gotten together. I’m really grateful and I’m thankful,’ she said of the couple, who are also featured on RHONJ, according to People.
Joe even made the rapprochement official at the convention.
While Teresa and her husband Luis Ruelas were signing merchandise, Joe dropped by to show there were no hard feelings.
A clip of the encounter circulating on TikTok shows Joe pulling his sister and brother-in-law in for a cozy three-way hug in front of shocked fans, who rushed to capture the reunion on their phones.
Teresa Giudice, 53, shocked her fans when she announced on Friday at BravoCon 2023 in Las Vegas that she had ended her years-long feud with her brother Joe Gorga and sister-in-law Melissa Gorga; pictured Friday in Las Vegas
‘We have all gotten together. I’m really grateful and I’m thankful,’ she said of the couple, who are also featured on RHONJ, according to People; Joe and Melissa pictured in October in NYC
They got an extra treat when Luis returned the affectionate gesture by giving Joe a kiss on the cheek.
Melissa has also been seen at BravoCon with Joe and with other Bravo stars, though she didn’t appear to be part of the warm family display.
And during an interview with People at the event, Teresa revealed that she had been the one to reach out to her brother Joe in the first steps to end their feud.
‘I reached out to him and at first, we were gonna meet – the four of us,’ she explained, referencing to herself and husband Luis as well as brother Joe and his wife Melissa.
‘But then I was thinking about it, and I was like, you know, I wanted to talk to my brother first.’
The star added, ‘I wanted him to really see me, and I wanted him to feel it from me, and vice versa, I wanted to feel it from him. So I felt like the two of us should meet first.’
Teresa then shared that she first met with her brother one-on-one and then all four came together afterwards.
She later called their reunion ‘amazing’ and further expressed, ‘We talked about certain things, apologized, and that was it, moved forward, yeah, and I’m happy.’
And during an interview with People at the event, Teresa revealed that she had been the one to reach out to her brother Joe in the first steps to end their feud; seen on Friday in Las Vegas
She later called their reunion ‘amazing’ and further expressed, ‘We talked about certain things, apologized, and that was it, moved forward, yeah, and I’m happy; Teresa and Luis pictured on Friday
Though Melissa was at BravoCon and was pictured with Joe, she didn’t appear to have dropped by for the group hug; pictured on Friday
Teresa also offered her response to those speculating if the reconciliation is truly authentic.
‘Ask my brother, I’m the type that holds grudges. I’m very old school,’ she told Us Weekly on Saturday during BravoCon 2025.
‘For me to do this, it’s real. He said he was waiting for me because he knew how upset I was about things.’
Teresa further said about those questioning the reunion: ‘People who say that have a mean heart. I’m just saying, a mean soul. Everybody should want family to be together.
‘I want to show America what a real Italian family looks like. My ex’s family? They are all together, united. That’s what I always wanted.’
The Real Housewives star added that it is ‘important’ to her ‘to show America that we could be united, and I want to show our children that too.’
The feud between Teresa and the Gorgas grew to sweep up their family members, but her oldest daughter Gia Giudice, 24, revealed that she had also welcomed her aunt and uncle back into the fold.
‘It feels really good,’ she said of the return to warm relations while chatting with People on the red carpet.
Melissa and Joe have feuded for years with Teresa, her ex-husband Joe Giudice and her current husband Luis; pictured on Friday
‘For me to do this, it’s real. He said he was waiting for me because he knew how upset I was about things,’ Teresa expressed; seen on Saturday in Las Vegas
‘I’m looking forward to the path of rebuilding and just getting to a better place, which we already are in, so, yeah, it’s exciting,’ Gia continued. ‘I’m really happy about it.’
Teresa’s sniping with her brother and sister-in-law extends all the way back to Melissa debut on the Real Housewives Of New Jersey in the show’s third season.
Early on, Teresa accused Melissa of only being with Joe for his money, which Melissa denied.
‘Joe and I have been married for seven years and have three kids. We went through a time where we couldn’t even buy diapers. We had to sell every house we lived in…’ she told E! News in 2011. ‘Did I go anywhere? Would I ever? No.
‘It hurts me that she would even put that out there, to put that in someone’s head,’ Melissa continued. ‘And it doesn’t even hurt me as bad as it hurts her brother.’
The relations devolved to the point that all four were involved in a brawl in 2013, though Teresa and her then-husband Joe Giudice appeared to make up their RHONJ costars after they were both sentenced to prison time for fraud.
The Real Housewives star added that it is ‘important’ to her ‘to show America that we could be united, and I want to show our children that too’; Teresa and Joe seen on Saturday during BravoCon 2025
The TV personality was also seen with husband Luis during event on Saturday at Caesar’s Palace
Teresa paused for a photo as she crossed paths with Monique Samuels and Keiarna Stewart
Things stayed relatively calm after Teresa’s husband Joe was deported to Italy after he served his sentence, but she and Melissa had another public falling out in 2022, when Teresa said on Watch What Happens Live that she wasn’t going to have Melissa be in her bridal party.
Melissa later claimed she only found out that she had been left out of the wedding party by watching the interview on TV.
Melissa and Joe ended up skipping Teresa’s wedding to Luis altogether, and Teresa later said she was ‘totally fine with it.’
‘I’m all about good energy, and whoever wanted to be at my wedding was there,’ she said on her Namaste B$tches podcast.