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If you thought last night’s premiere episode of Real Housewives of New Jersey season three was shocking, you weren’t the only one! Even Teresa Giudice was shocked by watching her family fight on TV.

“I’m sorry I can’t start this blog with all kinds of excitement, because I don’t feel like there was much to celebrate in this first episode,” Teresa wrote on her Bravo blog. “It was beyond heartbreaking to watch.”

For Teresa, the first episode and the entire season have been difficult to film.

“My brother and I have always been close. Yes, when he got married things changed, but we were still close,” she explained. “The whole idea of a full-blown feud is crazy to me. I think you can tell by how shocked I was at the christening that this was an unexpected problem.”

And according to Teresa, everything was fine between them before that day.

“A month earlier, Joe and Melissa [Gorga] were at Audriana’s first birthday party with us. Gabriella, Milania, Antonia, and Gino go to preschool together. They see each other every day,” she said. “If we weren’t speaking, I would never have gone to their son’s christening.”

Watching the fight on tape was very upsetting to Teresa.

“To see what happened when I wasn’t in the room, to watch my brother run after my ailing father and insult my mother — it’s just too much. My family doesn’t deserve this,” she wrote. “I’m not going to trash anyone in my family or pick through every one of Melissa’s lies. I’ll let her speak for herself, and you can decide whatever you want to believe.”

“I know who I am. I love my family. I love my friends. And I love my fans,” she concludes. “I’m so proud of my wonderful husband, Joe. He always stands up for me and my family, and he kept his cool.”

While Teresa may not want to pick apart Melissa in her blog, Melissa doesn’t seem to feel the same way with her Bravo blog.

“She has never been happy for her brother or cared about anything good going on in his life or his children’s. She only wants to discuss her life and only cares about herself,” Melissa writes about Teresa. “She kept us as far away during Season 1 and Season 2, because I think she knew this would happen when they found us. Karma is a bitch. Family comes first for me, but unfortunately it does not for her, and it never will. It’s just not who she is, and that’s OK, but don’t think we are going to go on national TV and be fake with you. We are not fakers, sorry.”

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Teresa Giudice and hubby Joe Giudice attended the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" Season 3 viewing and "Fabulicious" Cookbook launch party at Tribeca Night Club on May 16, 2011 in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

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If you've just watched the Season 3 premiere of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey," you may still be in shock at the violent and emotional events that broke out at new cast member Melissa Gorga's christening party for her son.

"When it was going on," Melissa tells Zap2it. "I was screaming at the producers and I was saying, 'Put your cameras down! This is my son's christening! This is not funny.' I was freaking. I didn't sleep for a week after that christening."

In fact, Melissa tells us she has no regrets about joining the Bravo show... except for letting the cameras shoot at that event.

"It's very hard on me, very bittersweet," she says. "I love to see my son's christening day, but to see my husband in such pain was agonizing to me to me to watch. And to just see that be the memory of my son's christening day is devastating. But, it's the reality. I've learned to face it and realize it happened. And I'm moving past it now."

Melissa tells us she believes fellow cast mate and sister-in-law Teresa Giudice only came over to her and her husband, because the cameras were shooting. And while that may have launched the evening's tragic events, she says it goes much further back than that.

"It goes very deep and it runs deep," she says. "So, it's going to play out and you're going to see exactly why my husband did what he did and reacted the way he reacted and why we're so bitter with her. And we're done with the whole front she puts up and we're not going to do it for the cameras. So, I think it's going to play out and you're slowly going to see our stories unfold."

The scene quickly becomes a jumbled mess of tilted cameras, yelling and screaming, and it becomes difficult to figure out what's going on. So, we asked Melissa if there's anything she wanted to clear up about the events of the night.

"I do want to say after watching it that the way that you see my husband," she tells us. "You are going to see so many different sides of my husband and that was my husband in amazing pain, ridiculous amounts of pain and emotion. And I feel it comes through."

Caroline Manzo, Jacqueline Laurita, Melissa Gorga, Kathy Wakile, and Albie Manzo joined Simon van Kempen to kick off the new season of Real Housewives of New Jersey with a premiere party at the Brownstone.

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New York Housewife Ramona Singer threw a premiere party to beat all premiere parties Tuesday, to celebrate the kick off of the fourth season of her hit reality show, and Radar Online has the exclusive photos.

Ramona was joined by her hunky hubby, Mario and her beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter Avery - and in the words of Ramona, it was “truly an electrifying night!”

“I was so excited to host the event,” Ramona told Radar Online in an exclusive interview. “I picked a very chic place in Covet. The space was beautiful and everything came out even better than I thought! It was truly an electrifying night.

“The best part for me was that I was the wine sponsor for my own event! Everyone was drinking Ramona Pinot Grigio and the response was fabulous! My guests could not stop coming up to me and telling me how great the wine was.

“Even those who normally drink only one glass were drinking multiple! I was really proud and happy I was able to share that with the people closest to me.

“I was so honored that the President of Bravo, Frances Berwick, attended. It was so sweet of her to come and show her support.”

But, despite the high profile names milling around, Ramona says her biggest and most celebrated VIPs were her own family.

“Not only did my husband Mario come but my daughter Avery, now being sixteen years old, was able to come along as well. I was so thrilled to have her there next to me and she looked stunning!”

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If you thought last season's Real Housewives all-girls getaway to St. John -- later dubbed "Scary Island" -- was must-see TV, get ready for more catty drama when the Real Housewives of New York City returns for a fourth season Thursday.

Among the highlights on the much-anticipated new episodes? A trip to Morocco, new men for LuAnn de Lesseps and Sonja Morgan, and lots and lots of drama.

"It's our best season yet," cast member Alex McCord tells Us Magazine.

Read on for more Housewives dish ahead of Thursday's premiere:

1. The identity of the woman on the receiving end of McCord's "thug in a cocktail dress" insult will finally be revealed. How does the suddenly more vocal McCord characterize season 4? "It's not about one epic fight that turns into a Greek tragedy," she says. "It's a series of things. Positive, negative, dramatic, fun. It's our best season yet."

2. New Housewife on the block Cindy Barshop fits right in with the New York City six. And as Barshop tells Us, she felt no pressure to fill the void left by Bethenny Frankel, who exited the series to headline her own spin-off. "I didn't feel like I was filling someone's spot," Barshop says. "I felt like I was joining an eclectic group of girls and I was going to see what happened. The biggest challenge was that there was no handbook for how to join these girls. Usually with relationships it takes a while, but in this situation I had to do it quickly."

3. In the wake of her "Scary Island" experience, look for Kelly Bensimon to sit back and play peacekeeper as her fellow 'wives go wild. "I don't like to take sides," Bensimon tells Us. "There isn't really one [dramatic] moment [this season]. It's real relationships with people clashing over real things. It's like 'You hurt me, I'm mad at you, now fix it.'"

4. She's settling into a series regular gig on Season 4, but Morgan still isn't used to seeing herself on TV -- and insists appearances can be deceiving. "In real life I think I look fab and on camera I look chunky," Morgan says. "It's okay, because thin is not always in. Men like a little meat." One man who appreciates Morgan's curves? Her new artist boyfriend, Brian Farrell, who will make his Housewives debut on the premiere.

5. Move over Sex and the City gals! The Real Housewives are headed to Morocco. While we're not yet sure if the Housewives' trek will rival their trip to Scary Island, one thing is clear -- it'll be must-see TV. "We had a lot of fun," Bensimon says. "Apart from the last season, I really don't travel with seven women. It was like a school trip. This school trip [was] high school politics on steroids."

The Real Housewives of New York City airs Thursday at 10 p.m. (EST) on Bravo.

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Sonja Morgan, Alex McCord, Ramona Singer, Cindy Barshop and Kelly Bensimon attend the Real Housewives Of New York City Season 4 Premiere Party at Covet on April 5, 2011 in New York City. Also pictured, Simon van Kempen and Mario Singer.

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Get ready for more Big Apple drama, Housewives fans!

After a sudden schedule switcheroo in February that bumped the Real Housewives of New York City's fourth season premiere in favor of the Real Housewives of Miami's debut, the New York women finally have a premiere date.

Come April 7, Jill Zarin, Alex McCord, LuAnn de Lesseps, Ramona Singer, Kelly Bensimon, Sonja Morgan and newcomer Cindy Barshop will be back on the air, the network announced via their BravoTV.com The Dish blog Monday.

"From the gang's glamorous jaunt to Morocco, to our already-favorite dig "thug in a cocktail dress" (delivered by the ultimate messenger, Alex McCord), to the Countess finding love again, the new season will definitely be worth the wait," the Bravo blog post read.

Brooklyn-based cast member McCord agrees, and tells Us Magazine fans should clear their calendars for Thursday nights.

"I think this is definitely the best season so far," McCord tells Us. "[But] there was no way they were going to get [editing] done in time."

The Real Housewives of New York City premieres April 7 at 10 p.m. (EST) on Bravo.

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