Teresa Guidice’s Namaste B$tches podcast abruptly ended in April, leaving fans completely in the dark about the status of the show.
Bravo bloggers have been speculating for months that Teresa had a falling out with her co-host, Melissa Pfeister – and the rumors only intensified after the pair unfollowed each other on Instagram.
Teresa, 52, all but confirmed that Namaste B$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$tches and how she was moving forward without Teresa.
‘Regarding the podcast, people have made up some pretty terrible lies about it and me,’ she said.
Teresa Guidice’s Namaste B$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$tches, which was one of the more successful Real Housewives-related podcasts
‘The truth is I spent over two years of my life, with two kids under six, having another podcast [Side Piece] and being a nutritionist with my own business, creating and building Namaste B$tches,’ she continued.
‘I worked on it 24/7 and after all that, there is no way I would ever do anything to ruin it or go after someone. That’s not who I am or how I roll. You can ask any of the 150-plus people I’ve interviewed and have an amazing relationship with.
‘On top of all that, I’m pregnant and the pregnancy has been very difficult so with all that, it was time for a break from Namaste.’
Melissa added cryptically: ‘I could say a lot more of the other reasons I stepped away, 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$tches, for comment.
Both Melissa and Teresa have refused to publicly share details about their rumored falling out, but various fans and Bravo bloggers have pointed out that the pair no longer follow each other on social media.
‘I’ve been waiting for this breakup to happen. Sorry I’m not at all surprised,’ one fan commented.
Another wrote, ‘I listened to two episodes. I’m surprised it lasted this long – it was awful!’
‘I’m pregnant and the pregnancy has been very difficult so with all that, it was time for a break from Namaste,’ she told DailyMail.com
Teresa was known for wearing Namaste B$tches merchandise on episodes of The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Last December, Melissa tragically revealed that she’d suffered her third miscarriage while attending Bravocon with Teresa last November.
In a social media post at the time, Melissa wrote, ‘I kept the smile on my face. It was extremely hard too as most had their spouse or significant other, friends or family… I was there by myself.’
She added, ‘To go through this and not being able to talk with anyone about it, well, once getting home I just continued not talking about it or trying to think about it.
‘But then realized I would be lying to everyone on the podcasts by not being open and honest, which is the whole point of doing 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 rumored falling out with Melissa is just the latest in a long line of fractured relationships that 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 on the outs 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 on drama, this latest season has proven more turbulent than ever before – coming to a shocking head earlier this month when host and executive producer Andy Cohen confirmed that the upcoming reunion has been scrapped for the first time in the show’s history.
Last December, Melissa tragically revealed that she’d 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 while filming the current season – a dynamic that Cohen has called ‘unsustainable.’
Viewers will have the opportunity to see the feuding sisters-in-law on-screen one last time in the final episode of this season, which Dolores Catania described as being 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 stuff that you’re going to see at the finale. No coming back,’ she told Us Weekly.
Meanwhile Andy described it as ‘The Last Supper’ – potentially a dark foretelling of what could be to come for the current stars.
‘I think that the main thing is this will all make sense once you see the finale. It is one of those classic Jersey finales that people will be talking about for a long time to come,’ he revealed on Radio Andy’s Reality Checked.
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