Summary
- Rachel Fuda admits Luis Ruelas may be RHONJ's "downfall" after his controversial comments.
- Rachel highlights Ruelas' negative effect on Teresa Giudice and the show, implying he amplifies toxicity.
- Rachel says she holds herself to a "higher standard" than her castmates and refuses to ruin their reputations.
Rachel Fuda doesn’t like to speak ill of her castmates, but amid the Luis Ruelas scandal, she had to be honest about her opinion of him. Teresa Giudice’s husband recently made headlines for his inappropriate comments about Margaret Josephs’ son, and everyone, including Bravo host Andy Cohen, agreed that he went too far.
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Real Housewives of New Jersey has been suffering from the tension among the cast, and even those who want to stay out of it, like Rachel, have been affected. When asked about Luis, she replied honestly and admitted he might not be a good influence on the show.
Rachel Fuda Gets Candid About Luis Ruelas
During a heated conversation with Teresa Giudice, Luis Ruelas snapped and said that he hoped “Margaret and her family suffer.”
"I hope her f****** son suffers the way I suffer, the way other people in our family have suffered dealing with a woman like that. She’s a disgusting, vile human being."
He later apologized for his comments, saying he shouldn’t have brought up Margaret’s son, but Teresa defended him for his outburst and asked the rest of the Housewives not to stick up for Margaret.
When Rachel was asked during an interview with Us Weekly about Luis, she tried to be polite, but when pressed, she admitted that he might be the show’s “downfall.”
“I wasn’t here before he got here. And I think that’s an important thing to kind of realize is, like, it happened at the same time. From what I recall, his involvement in the show happened simultaneously, increased when I became a housewife,” she explained. “So from what people are saying, it sounds like that.”
While she didn’t outright say that he’s to blame for the toxicity that has been plaguing RHONJ lately, she did say that he made things worse for the Housewives. Including his own wife.
“I think that he kind of poured gasoline on the fire. He just kind of mic-dropped it, you know what I mean? He just put the bookend on it,” she said.
“Unfortunately, I feel like Teresa does have to clean up a lot of the things that he says. I mean, I feel like her podcast solely exists to clean up Louie’s mess.”
About Teresa, she said that it looks like she's constantly “justifying his actions or something like that.”
“So it does seem like there’s quite a bit of toxicity around him.”
Rachel Fuda Says Her Kindness Is Her 'Downfall'
Fans will have noticed that Rachel Fuda refused to outright accuse Luis Ruelas of damaging the show, and she said that it's because she has "morals." She respects her castmates and hates having to criticize them publicly, which she admits is her "downfall" in RHONJ.
"I've said that a million times but that is my biggest downfall, as a Housewife, is that I hold myself to a higher standard than some of the women that are on our show,” she explained.
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Fans expect people on reality TV to have no problem backstabbing their castmates, but Rachel can't bring herself to do that.
“I don’t feel like I need to ruin people’s reputations and livelihoods in order to make myself successful. I wasn’t raised that way.”
It speaks volumes, then, that she felt compelled to point out Luis' negative effect on the show.
