Dolores Catania Explains ‘Miscommunication’ With Jennifer Aydin in ‘RHONJ’ Premiere

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It didn’t take long for the drama to start on season 13 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, but the most intense moment in the premiere didn’t come from Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga. Dolores Catania and Jennifer Aydin got into a screaming match at the end of the Tuesday, February 7, episode.“I really wasn’t looking for that,” Dolores, 52, exclusively told Us Weekly about not approaching Jennifer, 45, at the second cast event of the season. “It had been so long since we were in New York [at the season 12 reunion] I thought, maybe, when I saw her at the roller skating party, that we would just at least say hello to each other, but she kept, like, running away from me.

I didn’t expect to speak to her at the next [event], but I didn’t want them left out either, so it just wasn’t the time or place when I wanna speak to somebody about what’s going on.

I’m not gonna speak to 50 people before I speak to you. That’s just not how I am. I don’t even respond well to that. So that’s where a lot of our miscommunication came.”Things escalated when Dolores overheard Jennifer talking about her to Melissa, 43, at a party that marked Dolores’ boyfriend Paul “Paulie” Connell’s first event on the show.

While disagreeing about whether Dolores was a “good friend” to Jennifer when Margaret Josephs brought up Bill’s past affair on camera during season 12, Jennifer declared her castmate “wasn’t f—king nice.”“She’s never been my friend.