--- title: "Joe Gorga Defends ‘Tough’ Talk With Gia About Joe Giudice; Admits Antonia’s Relationship With Her Cousins Has Been Strained Over the Drama" url: https://allabouttrh.com/2022/03/03/joe-gorga-defends-tough-talk-with-gia-about-joe-giudice-admits-antonias-relationship-with-her-cousins-has-been-strained-over-the-drama/ type: post date: 2022-03-03 modified: 2022-03-03 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2022/03/03/joe-gorga-defends-tough-talk-with-gia-about-joe-giudice-admits-antonias-relationship-with-her-cousins-has-been-strained-over-the-drama.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # Joe Gorga Defends ‘Tough’ Talk With Gia About Joe Giudice; Admits Antonia’s Relationship With Her Cousins Has Been Strained Over the Drama Joe Gorga isn’t sorry for having *“tough conversations”* with his niece Gia Giudice about her dad, Joe Giudice. The house-husband opened up about the drama with his niece while appearing Wednesday’s *Watch What Happens Live* episode alongside his wife, Melissa Gorga. On a recent episode of the* Real Housewives of New Jersey*, Gia and Joe went at it over comments her uncle made about her dad in the press. Gia called her uncle *“disrespectful”* for claiming her father didn’t know how to be a *“man.”* She also took issue with her uncle blaming her dad for the death of his mother. Andy Cohen asked Joe about this all during Wednesday’s episode of WWHL. *“It’s one of those things where you’re watching at home, and you’re both right,”* Andy noted. *“You can understand she doesn’t want to hear it anymore about her dad, and you’re in this position of trying to stand up for your family.”* Joe claims he *“never really speak[s] about Joe Giudice ever”* and insists that Giudice is the one that can’t stop talking about him and Melissa in the press. *“I wonder if they [Joe Giudice’s daughters] ever yell at him for anything,”* Joe quipped. *“If you go out and look, there’s 11 articles [Giudice has spoken to]. I’ve never said anything.”* He adds that before his blowout with Gia, his sister Teresa Giudice had been venting to him about her ex-husband. *“Before that day, my sister’s telling me they’re going through a divorce, and she’s telling me all these things that he was saying to her,”* Joe said. *“So I’m sitting there, and I’m thinking about all this, and then we had that episode a couple [of] days later, so I explode, and it’s my sister — I’m trying to protect her.”* Meanwhile, Joe and Melissa also revealed that their daughter Antonia’s relationship with her cousins had been strained amid Joe’s drama with his nieces Gia and Milania. Check out the clip below! >   > > > > > > > > > > > View this post on Instagram > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >   > [A post shared by All About The Real Housewives? (@allabouttrh)](https://www.instagram.com/tv/CanE5qyrE0F/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) *The Real Housewives of New Jersey* airs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT. ## Thoughts on this all?? Sound off below! **[Follow](https://www.instagram.com/allabouttrh) **AllAboutTRH On **[Instagram.](https://www.instagram.com/AllAboutTRH)** **[Follow](https://www.twitter.com/allabouttrh) **AllAboutTRH On **[Twitter.](https://www.twitter.com/allabouttrh)****[Like](https://www.facebook.com/allabouttrh)** AllAboutTRH On **[Facebook.](https://www.facebook.com/allabouttrh)**