Hello and welcome friends to trashy divorces. Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.

My name's Alicia and holy cat, Stacey. I've been hearing a lot of girl fight videos playing from

your office this week. Are we back to the housewives? We are. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about

Dina Manzo of the Real Housewives of New Jersey.

And today we're following up with the story of her friend, Teresa Judice, wife, mom, felon, reality TV staple.

It sounds like a whole lot of trashy. Before we begin our episode today, let's pull out our magic mirror and give some big thanks to our latest supporters over at patreon.com slash trashy divorces.

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let's go go go go Stacey, I'm super thrilled in this housewife journey that we are on that you have now learned how to pronounce Teresa's last name.

Absolutely. It's how she pronounces it.

I feel like she's the subject matter expert.

Alicia, a few weeks ago, we went through the travails of Real Housewives of New Jersey's Dina Manzo, who found herself kind of sort of married to the mob in her second marriage,

which meant that she and her future third husband were subjected to terrifying violence before

they fled New Jersey entirely. Dina was an original cast member alongside her sister,

her sister-in-law, and a friend they got a job for, Teresa Judice. Plus, there was a frequent

sparring partner for Teresa, a one-season cast member named Danielle Staub.

Teresa was a real pathbreaker for the franchise.

She was, after all, the first housewife to go to prison while appearing on the show.

What?

Something that has become more commonplace for cast members as the years have gone on.

In Teresa's case, it seems like the bulk of the

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