Dolores Catania shared a new perspective on her RHONJ finale sit-down with Margaret Josephs: “For me…”
Those who tuned in to the jaw-dropping Season 14 finale of The Real Housewives of New Jersey saw Dolores Catania, who is famously neutral in the group’s drama, getting upset at her longtime pal, Margaret Josephs.
The ladies’ tense exchange took place at Margaret’s home, before the now-infamous final feast at Rails Steakhouse.
During their chat, Margaret claimed that she had invited Dolores to the Season 13 pre-reunion meeting at her house (which also featured guests Melissa and Joe Gorga, Jackie Goldschneider, Rachel and John Fuda, and Jennifer and Jeff Fessler).
Dolores denied ever getting invited, and she opened up about why the moment made her so mad when she appeared on the August 4 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
“For me, it’s like my integrity there, you know?” Dolores explained to host Andy Cohen. “Because she was saying something that didn’t happen, and it was blatantly making me so furious.”
What’s more, Dolores wasn’t worried about looking disloyal. Instead, she was concerned that her friend was telling lies about her.
“It wasn’t so much about, ‘Oh, it makes me look like a bad friend,'” she said. “But, it just wasn’t true.”
Margaret Josephs and Dolores Catania’s RHONJ Season 14 finale drama, explained
Once Dolores arrived to Margaret’s house on RHONJ Season 14, Episode 13, the two began to discuss the meeting Teresa Giudice held at her house with her lawyer, James Leonard.
When Dolores compared the gathering to the one that Margaret had at her home prior to the Season 13 reunion, Margaret got upset.
“There wasn’t a summit. That’s called doing a reunion review,” she said. “Is that called a summit?”
“Well, thanks for not inviting me to that one,” Dolores responded.
Margaret then claimed that she had invited Dolores.
“I did,” she said. “I told you to come.”
“You f-cking never said that to me!” Dolores said, and Margaret claimed that she called her “two days before the reunion” to ask her to come over.
“You f-cking never had that conversation with me…. Never had it,” Dolores continued, before swearing “on [her] kids” that it didn’t happen.
Watch The Real Housewives of New Jersey Off the Rails post-finale special on Sunday, August 11 at 8/7c on Bravo. Stream the next day on Peacock.
