The Real Housewives of New Jersey season 12 premiere ended with a bang – and not a good one!

At Teresa Giudice’s pool party Margaret Josephs and Jennifer Aydin got into a heated fight that lead to a MAJOR revelation.

Jennifer was gushing about how great Bill is because he makes all this money which allows her to live a wonderful life and stay home to raise her kids. She calls Marge jealous and insists she’s still pissed about the snake comment.

Marge on the other hand kept trying to tell her it wasn’t about the money – it was about Jen acting as if her life is sooo perfect when everyone knows that it’s not. According to Marge, Jennifer is unhappy and not being honest about her life.

She adds that Bill is spending his life making up for mistakes he’s made in the past.

The fight continues to intensify with Marge finally blurting out that Bill cheated on Jennifer over ten years ago.

“Bill had that affair with the office manager for two years,” Marge blurts out to which Jen fires back, “She’s not an office manager, she was a pharmaceutical rep, you f–k. If you could get the facts straight.”

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Meanwhile, Jennifer reveals to Page Six that her daughter Olivia Aydin found out about Bill’s past infidelity on TikTok.

“We had a blogger leak this awful storyline and somebody made a TikTok on it,” she recounts. “My sweet little Olivia — who threw a beautiful anniversary party for us [on ‘RHONJ’ Season 11] to show how her parents are still in love — saw a TikTok that said ‘the big secret.’”

Jennifer says Olivia started defending her parents in the comments of the post, writing, “This is my mommy and daddy and this is not true!”

“She came to me to show me her comment and said, ‘Look mommy, I’m defending you from all of these lies,’” Jennifer says, noting that she asked Olivia to delete her comment since sadly the accusations about Bill were true.

While Jennifer was pregnant with their fourth child, Christian, 10, Bill had an affair with a pharmaceutical rep.

“I said, ‘It’s for the show and it’s not good if we release things, so maybe we shouldn’t draw attention.’ I had her take it down that way,” Jennifer recalled.

“I sat her down and I kept my composure because I realized [my kids] will react to however Mommy’s acting,” she says. “I put on a brave face and said, ‘Listen, Daddy did a bad thing. But that doesn’t mean that he’s a bad person. And when we love people, we forgive them when they make mistakes. And I’ve forgiven him and I’m OK.’ She wasn’t upset because I wasn’t upset.”

Since then Bill and Jennifer have discussed the accusations with all of their children including son Justin, 17, daughter Gabriella, 14, and son Jacob, 12.

“My husband told Justin. I was in the room, and Justin kind of was almost irritated, like, ‘I don’t ever want to talk about this ever again.’ He’s not watching this season. My Gabriella, she was more crushed. She felt very betrayed and was angry for a bit but we got through that. And my two [younger] boys, they’re neither here or there,” the RHONJ star says.

“And Olivia, now that she sees that Mommy’s OK with it, she’ll be like, ‘Mommy, do they know about “the secret,” too?’ And I’ll say, ‘Yeah, but it’s not a secret anymore and we’re OK with talking about it. And she’ll say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s right,’” she elaborates. “So remember, children will learn by example. As long as I’m cool and not breaking down, I think they’ll be OK.”

Jennifer admits she NEVER intended for this skeleton to come out of her closet. She notes that she STILL doesn’t know how Margaret came to know the long-held secret.

“You do not want Margaret to be your enemy. She is a digger and she could find out things. She’s got a big Rolodex of people in her friend group. I wouldn’t put anything past her. She’s very focused when she wants to find out something about somebody,” says Jennifer.

According to Jennifer, she “never once” told ANYONE about Bill’s affair let alone her RHONJ costars.

“I never told a soul. I didn’t tell my parents, I didn’t tell my cousins, I didn’t tell my sister, I didn’t tell my best friend,” she explains. “I put it in the vault and threw away the key. I pretended it never happened. I have never brought it up as a dig. Because when you decide to forgive somebody, you really have to forgive it and never bring it up. Otherwise, your relationship is not going to work.”

While Bill was “embarrassed” by his infidelity and was “uncomfortable” talking about it onscreen but agreed to do so for his wife.

“He supported me in the sense of letting me share our story, which I think is very brave of him,” she says. “And I told him if we were able to get through it when it happened 10 years ago, we’ll be able to get through it now.”

Today, the RHONJ couple is in “a great space”

“I didn’t want to be the one to bring it up and ever talk about it because that would be at the expense of my children and it wasn’t worth it for me. But since [Margaret] did bring it up and since I do have to talk about it, I’m going to use it as therapy and find it cathartic and therapeutic,” she admits. “Signing up for this show, that’s what I agreed to do — to show the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s not easy.”

The Real Housewives of New Jersey airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey season 12 premiere shocked fans in multiple ways, but NOTHING was more shocking than Jennifer Aydin’s new look. I mean Louie Ruelas’ video is a close second, am I right?

The Bravoblebrity went under the knife in Turkey for a rhinoplasty, chin implant, and facial lipo just weeks before filming for season 12 began.

Naturally, when the cameras started rolling, Jen wasn’t completely healed and looked a bit scary, TBH. She’s such a pretty woman, so it was genuinely SHOCKING to see her looking so unlike herself.

Jennifer Aydin Opens Up

Jen knew she would receive criticism and backlash for her transformation, so she got ahead of the gossip just hours before the season 12 premiere.

On Instagram, Jen opened up about going under the knife and hinted about some of the drama to come on RHONJ.

In the post, Jen admits that she’s already had her chin implant removed because she was unhappy with how it looked.

I’ve always been very open about my plastic surgery. The day this picture was taken was June 19th(Teresa’s pool party) , 4 weeks after my surgery. I went to Turkey for my nephew’s Christening and while there, I got a rhinoplasty with chin implant and facial lipo with @drmustafaaliyanik. I’m totally aware of the criticism some of you may have after you see my face tonight. I had them too! Keep in mind that it was exactly 4 weeks after the date of my surgery. My face was still swollen and numb and it was hard to move, speak or smile. My surgery was already planned from way before I got the news of when filming was to start. And even though I was nervous on some of the backlash that may happen and I had no idea how whack I would look on camera, I remembered that I signed up to show my life. All aspects of it. So instead of healing before I filmed, I healed while I filmed( in more ways than 1), and let you all watch. I wasn’t totally happy with my chin from day one, And I was irritated that I listened to the recommendation of the doctor. Bill told me to give it time. Time is your best friend with any type of plastic surgery. I am happy to say that my nose has settled in nicely and is looking better every day. I wasn’t that happy with my chin so I have recently had it removed with @drkassir . My nose surgery in Turkey was May 18th. When part 2 of Season 11 Reunion aired, it was Wed, May 19th, day 2 from my surgery. These dates are relevant to this new season, so pay attention. Within the next 48 hours, I’m going to post some personal video diaries in my stories that I took on these dates. I am warning you, it looks bad. On the dates that I was recuperating across the Atlantic, some things were happening on social media back here in the states- which I ended up participating in, which I now regret. I hope you all enjoy the season premiere. That’s the main bright side of all of this for me…. That even though this season is painful for me in so many different ways, I’m happy the fans are going to finally get the killer season they’ve been waiting for? Tune in tonight at 8 pm only on @bravotv.

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The Real Housewives of New Jersey airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT.