Teresa Giudice is staying strong.
As we reported earlier this month, an immigration court ruled that Joe Giudice will be deported back to Italy following his 41-month jail sentence for mail, wire, and bankruptcy fraud.
In an interview with People published on Thursday, the RHONJ starlet says her main priority amid the drama is her four daughters: Gia, 17, Gabriella, 14, Milania, 12, and Audriana, 9.
The Bravolebrity told the publication:
“My four daughters, they’re my main priority. So if I crumble up, it’s not going to be good for them, you know? I have… to keep everything going as normal as possible for my four daughters… They have school, they have their activities. Everything is going on, so that’s how I deal with it. I try to keep everything as normal as possible and I’m not going to be in a corner like crying or not attending to my kids. What good would that be for them?”
In regards to her husband never applying for citizenship, the 46-year-old remarked:
“When I married him, I didn’t know. I remember I tried to make him, I tried to fill out the paperwork… It was never on my radar. It’s not like I married an immigrant and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I have to make him an American citizen.’ Never thought of that at all… I mean, I guess that that was his parent’s responsibility. I mean they came here when he was a year old. I mean his brother and sister, they were born here. And they’re American.”’
Not surprisingly, the Giudice patriarch is “very upset” about the judge’s ruling.
“He’s a strong guy and he’s just — again, we’re just doing the best we can…You just gotta just deal with it, you know?”
Despite what happened in court, Teresa told her kids they’re “gonna fight it,” as they have 30 days since the ruling to appeal the decision. She adds:
“They know mommy is doing everything she can… They know I’m doing everything I can. So that’s it. That’s all I can do.”
Ever since he began his jail sentence in March 2016, Joe has missed out on precious family time that he will never get back. Teresa confessed:
“Of course I’m very angry… I’m just angry like a lot of things. I wish my husband would have crossed every T, dotted every I. There was also another person involved and nothing happened to that person, which is very sad. There’s a lot of scenarios. I lost my mom. I’m angry about that. You know? I lost time with my mom, because I was away. There’s a lot. I lost time with my daughters while I was away. Children need their mom… He left when Adriana was 6. She’s 9 now. Yeah. It’s two and a half years. I mean it’s going to be three years… He’s lost three years with his children.”
Out of everything, Teresa is concerned with how the legal drama will affect her children.
“The adults can handle anything. Adults can handle it because they’re big. That’s why we’re adults. We can handle it. But who would it affect the most? It’s the children… And that’s what’s sad about it, because the children are affected by it. It’s very sad, because they’re going through all this heartache, meanwhile it’s not even their fault. You know? They’re the ones that hurt the most.”
For now, the Housewife is “taking it day by day” and doing “whatever we have to do.”
“Whatever the attorneys tell me. Whatever they tell me, that’s what I do… You know, we’re going to fight this… I have my four daughters, I have my dad who lives with me. I gotta keep it together.”
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