Teresa Giudice Says Ex Joe Giudice 'Still Won't F---ing Admit' He Cheated: 'Do I Believe Him? No!'

Teresa Giudice is reflecting on how her past led her to her life today.

On the newest episode of the Reality with the King podcast, the Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 52, looked back at her relationship with ex-husband Joe Giudice. Throughout their marriage, rumors of infidelity swirled, and now, Teresa is admitting she believes they were true.

“I still ask him till today, I'm like, ‘Just tell me, f---er,’ and he doesn't tell me,” she said. “I'm like, dude, he still f---ing won't admit it.”

She added: “Do I believe him? No! I don't believe him.”

Teresa explained that she wants Joe to tell her the truth, especially now that she has moved on with somebody else. However, during their marriage, she didn’t let the allegations come between her and Joe, sharing that his financial crimes which resulted in her conviction of bankruptcy fraud alongside him in 2014 set them on a downward trajectory.

“I came home [from prison], Joe left three months later, and then my mom passed away, from when I came home, eight months later,” she said. “So after Joe left, my mom passed away five months after that. So that's when I knew it was over with Joe.”

The loss of her mother caused Teresa to resent Joe — with whom she shares daughters Audriana, Milania, Gabriella, and Gia — for separating her from her family during her mom's final years.

“I was so upset — I blamed him for losing time with my mom,” she said. “I lost out time with my mom. And, yeah, I know he didn't mean to do it. He adored my parents. He really did. I know he did. And, of course I forgave him.”

Now that she is with her current husband Luis "Louie" Ruelas, Teresa said she views her previous struggles as a pathway to meeting her “soulmate,” as she calls him on the hit Bravo show.

“I kept asking God, ‘Why did I have to go through this? Why did I have to go through this? Why did I have to go through this?’” she revealed. “But I had to go through all this to meet Louie, and I really do believe that.”

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Teresa then told a story of when she asked her deceased parents to bring her a “great guy” after her divorce from Joe. She said she was standing on Bay Boulevard in New Jersey when she spoke to them, and three weeks later, she met Luis in that same place.

“If you go through something bad and you don't understand why you're going through it, just don't give up,” she said. “You’ll finally get your answer. Look, I got my answer so many years later, and it was because to meet Luis, I had to have my kids with Joe, which I have 4 beautiful daughters with Joe.”

She added that Joe, who was deported after his release from prison and is now living in the Bahamas, was “a great husband” who “didn’t mean to hurt” her. She continued to say that she is grateful that he “tried to take the blame.”

“It's okay, I did what I had to do,” she said. “I worked out every day. I wrote my book, Turning the Tables. I did yoga ... and I did go to jail, but it's okay. I did it with a smile on my face ... because I knew in my heart, I didn't do anything.”

The Real Housewives of New Jersey airs Sundays at 8 p.m ET/PT on Bravo and can be streamed the following day on Peacock.