Teresa Giudice’s former podcast co-host Melissa Pfeister breaks her silence over ‘terrible LIES’ after pair abruptly ended their show amid bitter feud rumors
Teresa Guidice’s Namaste B$tches podcast ended abruptly in April, leaving fans completely in the dark about the status of the show.
Bravo bloggers have been speculating for months that Teresa has had a falling out with her co-host, Melissa Pfeister — and the rumors only increased after the pair unfollowed each other on Instagram.
Teresa, 52, all but confirmed that Namaste B$tches was kaput last week when she launched her own solo podcast, Turning The Tables, while Melissa, 42, also has her own podcast called Side Piece.
Now Melissa has spoken to DailyMail.com about the end of Namaste B$tches and how she moved on without Teresa.
“As for the podcast, people have made up some pretty horrible lies about him and me,” she said.
Teresa Guidice’s Namaste B$tches podcast co-host Melissa Pfeister (both pictured) has spoken out following the end of their podcast – and the end of their friendship
The pair previously hosted Namaste B$tches, one of the more successful Real Housewives-related podcasts
‘The truth is that I spent more than two years of my life, with two children under six, making a podcast [Side Piece] and as a nutritionist with my own business, creating and building Namaste B$tches,” she continued.
“I worked on it 24/7 and after all, there was no way I could ever do anything to screw it up or go after anyone. That’s not who I am or how I roll. You can ask any of the 150-plus people I’ve interviewed and have a great relationship with.
“Plus, I’m pregnant and the pregnancy has been really hard, so with all that, it was time for a break from Namaste.”
Melissa added cryptically, “I could say a lot more about the other reasons I left, but again, that’s not who I am or what I do.”
DailyMail.com has contacted Teresa and Hurrdat Media, the production company behind Namaste B$tches, for comment.
Both Melissa and Teresa have declined to publicly share details about their rumored feud, but several fans and Bravo bloggers have pointed out that the couple no longer follows each other on social media.
“I’ve been waiting for this break to happen. Sorry, not surprised at all,” one fan commented.
Another wrote: “I listened to two episodes. I’m surprised it took this long; it was horrible!’
“I’m pregnant and the pregnancy has been very difficult, so with all that it was time for a break from Namaste,” she told DailyMail.com
Teresa was known for wearing Namaste B$tches merchandise in episodes of The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Last December, Melissa tragically revealed that she suffered her third miscarriage last November while attending Bravocon with Teresa.
In a social media post at the time, Melissa wrote: “I kept the smile on my face. It was also extremely difficult because most of them had their partners or partners, friends or family… I was there alone.”
She added, “To go through this and not be able to talk to anyone about it, well, when I got home I just couldn’t stop talking about it or thinking about it.
“But then I realized that if I wasn’t open and honest, I’d be lying to everyone on the podcasts, which is the whole point of Side Piece & Namaste B$tches in the first place.”
Namaste B$tches was one of the more successful Real Housewives-related podcasts to emerge in recent years.
It spawned a merchandise line — which Teresa regularly wore on The Real Housewives of New Jersey — and a live show.
Teresa’s feud with Melissa is just the latest in a long line of broken relationships the reality star has left in her wake.
The skinny Italian author is currently feuding with half of the current RHONJ cast, including Rachel Fuda, Margaret Josephs and her sister-in-law, Melissa Gorga.
She’s also feuded with Danielle Cabral, who accused Teresa and Jennifer Aydin of “setting her up” to reveal a damaging rumor on camera last season.
The cast drama comes amid speculation that The Real Housewives of New Jersey could be coming to an end soon.
While the hit Bravo reality show has never been short of drama, this latest season has proven to be more turbulent than ever before. Things came to a shocking head earlier this month when host and executive producer Andy Cohen confirmed that the upcoming reunion has been canceled for the first time. time in the show’s history.
Last December, Melissa tragically revealed that she had suffered her third miscarriage while attending Bravocon with Teresa last November (pictured with Jennifer Aydin)
Teresa has now launched her own solo podcast called Turning The Tables
The announcement comes after Teresa and Melissa Gorga refused to speak to each other during filming of the current season — a dynamic Cohen has called “untenable.”
Viewers will get the chance to see the feuding sisters-in-law on screen one last time in this season’s final episode, which Dolores Catania described as so chaotic that it ended “a lot of relationships” on the show.
“It’s definitely closure for people, and you can’t come back from the things you’re going to see in the finale. There is no going back,” she told Us Weekly.
Meanwhile, Andy described it as ‘The Last Supper’ – possibly a dark prediction of what could happen for the current stars.
‘I think the most important thing is that this will all make sense when you see the final. It’s one of those classic Jersey finals that people will be talking about for a long time,” he revealed on Radio Andy’s Reality Checked.