The Actual Housewives of New Jersey alum Caroline Manzo’s daughter, Lauren Manzo, is weighing in on latest feedback made by her cousin Lexi Ioannou.
“I do love my cousin Lexi a lot and I’ve a delicate spot for her. She lived with me for a few years when she was a bit lady,” Lauren, 37, stated in one in every of two prolonged TikTok movies on Wednesday, Might 29. “We have been her siblings.”
Lauren instructed her followers that she “by no means needed to have to handle” the Manzo household drama publicly. She defined that they “don’t converse on the scenario” concerning former RHONJ star Dina Manzo and her ex-husband Tommy Manzo as a result of it impacts “each side” of the household.
Dina married Tommy — who’s brothers with Albert Manzo, her sister Caroline’s husband — in 2007. They separated in 2012 and divorced 4 years later. Tommy is at present incarcerated after being discovered responsible for “hiring, then helping, a soldier within the Lucchese Crime Household to assault” Dina’s now-husband, David Cantin, in 2015.
Teresa Giudice is weighing in on the aftermath of Caroline Manzo siding along with her brother-in-law over her sister Dina Manzo. “To me, that’s a no-no … it’s your sister. And I suppose that was her husband’s brother,” the Actual Housewives of New Jersey star, 52, stated in the course of the Tuesday, December 31, episode of the “All […]
Lexi, 29 claimed throughout an look on Gia Giudice’s podcast earlier this week that when her mother and Tommy cut up, he basically threw them out of the home and stored all of their stuff. When Tommy went to jail in October 2024, Lexi stated she reached out to Lauren for assist recovering her and Dina’s issues. In Lexi’s eyes, they didn’t do sufficient. (Lexi additionally claimed within the podcast that a few of her and Dina’s heirlooms have been discovered within the rubbish at The Brownstone, the New Jersey banquet corridor owned by the Manzo household.)
Caroline Manzo, Lauren Manzo, Lexi Manzo, and Dina Manzo. Getty Photographs (4)
The latest “backlash” on social media tearing down Lauren’s character after Lexi’s podcast look is what led her to lastly converse out within the TikTok movies.
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Lauren claimed on Wednesday that she referred to as Tommy “for Lexi” after he went to jail, explaining that her household “didn’t have a relationship with him.” Lauren claimed that she had a “very nice” dialog with Lexi and agreed to assist get well her and Dina’s issues.
Per Lauren, she was not allowed within the dwelling. As an alternative, the folks in management — who she referred to as “not good folks” — had a storage sale. Lauren stated she and Caroline went to the sale and made it clear that she was “combating for Lexi.” Caroline was apparently keen to “purchase the whole lot,” however Lauren was “met with plenty of resistance” when it got here to getting Lexi and Dina’s issues from the sale. Lauren claimed that she “felt a serious duty” to assist Lexi on this “mission.”
The Actual Housewives of New Jersey alum Caroline Manzo has grow to be the matriarch of one in every of Bravo’s most memorable households. The fact star was born in August 1961 to folks Nettie and Joseph Laurita and is among the couple’s 11 kids — the youngest of which is Caroline’s former costar Dina Manzo. The sisters […]
It grew to become “extraordinarily clear” to Lauren that they weren’t welcome in the home and stated that she and Caroline “burnt these bridges” with sure folks of their household by attempting to assist Lexi.
“I stand by burning these bridges. I’m nonetheless upset. I nonetheless give it some thought usually that we weren’t allowed in,” Lauren stated. “It kills me that she feels we let her down.”