Teresa Giudice looks back on her famous table flip controversy in The Real Housewives
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What began as a fiery argument with cast member Danielle Staub escalated into a pop culture phenomenon—and the moment that launched Teresa into Housewife legend territory.
The drama played out in RHONJ season 1's season finale, where a stressful dinner turned out-of-control. Danielle had called out the cast for gossip circulating about a tell-all book that claimed dirty chapters from her own life. "Pay attention, puh-lease!" she challenged the table, addressing them.
Teresa, already hot from passive-aggressive remarks, lost it.
"Prostitution whore! You were f—— engaged 19 times," Teresa notoriously exclaimed, banging her hands on the table before overturning the dinner table in anger as profanities rained down and pandemonium broke loose.
Now, years after the fact, the OG Housewife is looking back at the moment with fresh eyes. On the May 12, 2025 edition of her daughter Gia Giudice's Casual Chaos podcast, Teresa spoke candidly about the days leading up to the attack—and her unexpected admiration for her former rival.
"Danielle was… let me tell you, Danielle was made for it. She was TV gold. She really was. She was awesome. She just put it all out there, literally," Teresa explained. "She was fun and very easygoing, just so much fun—even though in the first place, she was like insulting me a little bit. That's what made me flip the table on her, you know?"
Teresa described how Staub's sarcastic comments added up over the years. "She would just toss these little barbs at me," she said, remembering one especially sarcastic remark tossed her then-husband Joe: "Don't talk to me like you talk to your wife."
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Teresa conceded, "I take it, I take it, I take it—and then when I don't take it anymore, I blow up."
Despite the two having a tumultuous relationship on-camera during the ensuing years, Teresa said that she and Danielle ultimately came to an understanding. "I ended up getting to know her, and then look, we ended up making up later on."
In spite of the night's infamous place in Bravo lore, Teresa revealed the rush of adrenaline from the table flip didn't take.
Discussing at BravoCon 2023 during the Housewife2Housewife: Day One Diva panel, she discussed the longer emotional resonance of her first seasons and how far she's come since.
While the table flip might have set the stage for her emergence into the world, Teresa Giudice is currently more concerned with her peace, family, and transformation—showing that even the most dramatic of reality TV legends can heal outside of the turmoil.
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