Kim DePaola may not be the biggest fan of the Gorgas, but she doesn’t believe Melissa cheated on her husband Joe.
“This is hearsay,” the 61-year-old “Real Housewives of New Jersey” said on the podcast “Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef” over the weekend, claiming the allegation of infidelity is “not true” and just ” a bunch of bulls.”
The rumor – brought to the group via Laura Marasca Jensen, girlfriend of Margaret Josephs star Margaret Josephs, who became “RHONJ”‘s girlfriend – alleges that Melissa, 43, allegedly kissed actor Nick Barrotta after a night out in New York a few years ago.
Sources close to the married star of “Tyler Perry’s The Oval” “strongly denied” the allegation to the Daily Mail, while one of our insiders called the claim “ridiculous”.
“They laugh about it,” our source told us, adding that “[they’ve] all friends for years.”
Last week, Jensen admitted to us that she heard Josephs’ story, “who wasn’t even there” [to witness the alleged cheating] herself.”
After the couple broke up, Jensen reached out to “RHONJ” star Teresa Giudice, 50, to meet her and co-star Jennifer Aydin, who both have long butt heads with Melissa and Josephs, 55.
During the trio’s lengthy conversation about “life,” Jensen said she brought up the rumor.
An insider then told us that it was 45-year-old Aydin who brought the rumor on camera while filming season 13, but DePaola still thinks “Teresa is behind this.”
“Teresa uses all her soldiers to do her s–t,” she claimed. “She lets everyone do their dirty work.”
Though the Gorgas shrugged off the allegation, they chose to skip Giudice’s wedding to Luis “Louie” Ruelas.
“Sometimes when things are too toxic, and you try it over and over, and it just keeps coming back to the same thing… even if it’s family, you have to let it go,” Melissa said on her podcast last week. , referring to problems with her sister-in-law’s new husband.
DePaola warned fans likely won’t get Joe, 42, and Melissa’s full side of things until the upcoming season airs on Bravo.
“Nobody hears the whole story,” she claimed. “[Melissa] can’t reveal it because if you’re under contract you can’t.