'RHONJ's Rachel Fuda Calls Out 'Mean Girl' Antics in Jennifer Aydin and Margaret Josephs Drama (Exclusive)

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Rachel Fuda is learning the rules of playing the game that is . Last week's episode ended with Jennifer Aydin and Teresa Giudice offering a warning to Rachel and her fellow newbie, Danielle Cabral: beware of Margaret Josephs.

Both women feuded majorly with Margaret in season 12, after Marge asked questions about Teresa's new man, Louie Ruelas, and exposed Jennifer's husband's years-old affair. «I understand where they're coming from — and they're validated in their feelings — but it just felt a little mean girl,» Rachel says of the conversation. «It felt like a little aggressive in that moment ...

it just didn't feel appropriate at that point. I wasn't at that point in my friendship with Teresa or Jennifer yet, and I don't think it was for my benefit.

I think it was for theirs.»While Jennifer and Teresa were clear they wanted Rachel and Danielle to make their own judgments on Margaret, she couldn't help but feel as if she was being played as a pawn in a game of  chess. «I think it was more about them trying to bring us in that direction, trying to magnetize us there, instead of [Margaret] having another person on her 'team' -- and I hate that word,» she says. «I personally feel that Jennifer has ulterior motives in a lot of the things that she does.»The «keep your friends close, enemies closer» advice about Margaret followed a phone call from Jennifer that left Rachel on-guard; Jennifer called up her new castmate to apologize for making rude comments about her nose job, and after Rachel accepted her apology, started rattling off her thoughts and feelings about co-star Dolores Catania, with whom she found herself locked in a feud, carried over from the season prior.