Her nose may be new, but she can still smell a jerk.
“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Jennifer Aydin revealed in a new interview that she is reconsidering her friendship with castmate Dolores Catania.
“She claims to defend me — and she does in real life, she really does defend me. And I love her. And I thought, ‘She loves me in real life, and sometimes is a jerk to me on the show,’” Aydin, 44, said of Catania on Access Hollywood’s “Housewives Nightcap.”
“But now I’m starting to realize she doesn’t like me and just appeases me for the show. So I don’t know where we stand. I just know some of the things I saw [this season] were really hurtful. Hopefully, we can try and work it out at the reunion.”
The Bravolebrity’s admission comes after Catania, 51, told her there is no need to cry over husband Dr. Bill Aydin’s 10-year-old affair coming to light on the reality series.
In response to Catania’s seemingly cold comment, Jackie Goldschneider stepped in to comfort her former nemesis — which later caused a major fight between Goldschneider, 45, and Catania (that played out on Tuesday night’s episode) over their loyalty to Jennifer.
“Jackie, you’re questioning my friendship with Jennifer?” Catania said, to which Goldscneider replied, “I’m saying that you are Margaret’s [Joseph] friend first.”
Catania then told Goldschneider that it’s “not [her] place to say” who she is friends with or not.
“It is my place because I’m looking out for Jennifer right now,” Goldschneider explained. “[I’m] making sure she’s surrounded by people who really have her back, and I don’t feel like you’ve had her back.”
Despite Catania’s objections, both Jennifer and Josephs, 54, agreed with Goldschneider.
“You’re more my friend. Dolores, you’re much closer with me,” Josephs said, while Jennifer confessed that she’d “love more” from Catania.
Earlier this month, Jennifer spoke exclusively with Page Six about her complicated dynamic with Catania.
“Dolores is friends with me and I know she loves me deep down. I love her, too,” she assured us. “But when I don’t feel her loyalty, and it happens this season, it hurts.”
“The Real Housewives of New Jersey” airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.