Teresa's good friend Kim D. who's frequently featured on Real Housewives of New Jersey sat down with ET to talk about how Teresa's doing. Kim D. who talked to ET from her Posche Boutique, was in contact with Teresa yesterday, and shared that she's holding up.
"It's Teresa, she's very strong," she says. "Is she in good spirits? I mean, I don't think she's doing cartwheels outside her house, but I think she knows -- she knows that she's innocent of these things, and I think she's gonna count on the justice [system] to say that she's vindicated, and she believes in herself. She knows she's innocent, and she's gonna hope for the best."
She also strongly believes that Teresa will not be going to jail.
"I really do not feel Teresa's gonna to be going to jail," she says when asked what will happen to the couple's four daughters should their parents have to face jail time. "But God forbid if anything did happen, she has the most wonderful parents and wonderful in-laws. Those children will be very well taken care of. But I truly believe it will be Teresa taking care of them."
So is Joe to blame?
"She happens to love her husband." Kim stresses. "She's very loyal to Joe. I like Joe, so it's a very hard question for me to answer. We'll see what happens in the end. I hope that they come out of this vindicated, and it's going to be a fairytale, and everything's going to be OK."
The 42-year-old former Real Housewives of New York City star shared her thoughts on Teresa and Joe being indicted for fraud this week, while promoting her talk show, Bethenny, at the TCA tour panel at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, July 31.
"My first thought today was, 'Oh, if they weren't on reality TV, none of this would probably ever be exposed.' And it's just funny how certain people are [like a] moth to a flame. It's almost like -- not that you want to get caught -- but people who love to be in the spotlight often have a lot of skeletons in their closet. It's just an interesting thing."
On Monday, July 29, Teresa, 41, and Joe, 43, were charged in a 39-count indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statement on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud.
"I haven't paid that much attention," Frankel explained of the Giudice's legal woes. "Do I feel sorry for them? No, I don't. Not so much, because it broke the law. You broke the law and you went on television. That's not really that smart."
But Frankel, mom to 3-year-old daughter Bryn, who is going through a divorce from husband Jason Hoppy, does feel sorry for the Giudices' four daughters. "I feel badly for them because they have kids," she explained, "and their kids didn't sign up for this."
The Giudices -- parents to Gia, 12, Gabriella, 10, Milania, 7, and Audriana, 3.
Teresa isn’t going to let something like a federal indictment stop her from shilling her products and RadarOnline.com has exclusive photos from her first public appearance since her legal troubles began.
Teresa was at the Beauty Buster Awards in NYC Wednesday night where she posed for pictures and chatted with guests at the party, seeming to have put the stress of the indictment behind her.
Teresa was at the event promoting her Milania Hair Care line and she posed for pictures for photographer Lora Warnick who exclusively told RadarOnline.com that Teresa was candid when she talked to her about appearing at the event.
“You can’t stop living,” Teresa told Lora about showing up at the event.
Wearing a blue dress with her hair down, Teresa was “in good spirits,” Lora observed and said Teresa was talking with other guests and “didn’t seem depressed at all.”
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