Teresa Giudice is standing by her Italian and New Jersey roots – family is sacred and you don’t cross them.

During an appearance on Kelly Ripa‘s Sirius XM podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera, the Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 52, espoused the philosophy laid out in The Godfather.

Kelly said ‘You and Melissa, like, will we never see the two of you on camera together ever again?’

‘Yeah. Never again. Never Again. First of all, to me, family is so sacred. I’m all about, you’re Italian Kelly,’ Teresa – who keeps badly photoshopping her bikini photos – said passionately.

‘I’m all about The Godfather movie. You never go against the family. I live by that. I stand by that. I’m a loyal person.’

Kelly concurred saying you can forgive someone and get past it, but in the back of your head you always know they could betray you again.

‘Yeah, exactly. I mean, I did forgive ’em ’cause again, my parents were around and I didn’t want to hurt my parents. My parents were so, after the christening, the first scene, my father-,’ Teresa said, getting choked up.

She continued: ‘My parents were so upset. They’re like, “What?” Me and my brother were best friends. We always got along. We never fought. We were really best friends until this happened. Until the show.’

The Live with Kelly and Mark host asked if it was RHONJ that started the feud between Teresa and her brother and sister-in-law.

‘Well, it was like a little jealousy about that I was on the show and they weren’t, and it’s like, “This is my thing.”

‘You know, it’s like it would’ve been so beautiful for us to be a united front and to show America, and to show the world that instead of fighting, like to me, this is like disgraceful.

‘I tell my daughters, I beg my daughters. I’m like, “Please always get along. That’s the only thing I only ask for is I want you four to always love each other and if somebody has something more than the other, you know, you guys enjoy it.”’

Teresa added: ‘You should all be happy for each other and lift each other up, you know?

Meanwhile, there may be big changes in store for the cast of the Real Housewives of New Jersey.

During a segment on his Andy Cohen Live radio show for SiriusXM, Cohen indicated that the cast might be completely swapped out for ‘fresh faces’ while chatting with a caller who was angry about the current show’s cast and direction.

The woman, who complained that RHONJ is ‘so boring now’ and said she wanted to see longtime star Melissa and newcomer Margaret Josephs jettisoned in favor of keeping Teresa, wasn’t initially mollified after Andy said there would be ‘big new changes to the show.’

After the caller continued to voice  a stream of complaints about the current season, Andy interjected, ‘We are rebooting the show.’

‘We’re gonna reboot it,’ Cohen continued. ‘We’re gonna do something different.’

The caller continued as she talked up Teresa’s presence on the series, before Andy seemed to try to wrap up the rant.

‘OK, all right. OK, we’re gonna see what we do. We’ll see,’ the seemingly annoyed Watch What Happens Live host said as he ended the conversation.

‘I don’t know. Maybe just all fresh faces. We’ll see,’ he added.