Jennifer Fessler Says Husband Was 'So Proud' of Her Revealing Her James Gandolfini Hookup
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00:00Hey everyone, it's Christina and I am here with Jen Fessler from The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
00:04Welcome to Happy Hour with us.
00:06So I'm going to ask you some questions.
00:08If you don't want to answer it, you can take a sip.
00:10Okay.
00:11But if you want to just spit it all out, you're more than welcome to.
00:14Okay, let's do it.
00:15All right.
00:15Let's do it.
00:16Easy one first. What's your favorite song to play on the guitar?
00:20How's that for you, Carly?
00:20You've heard me play Amazing Grace. Not my favorite.
00:24Well, I get it's funny because I'll really get somewhere and I'll be like, I'll play like a Beatles song.
00:28Okay.
00:29And then I'll stop playing for two years.
00:31And so I have to go back to Amazing Grace.
00:33I love that.
00:34And so right now I'm more sort of in the Amazing Grace songbook, unfortunately.
00:38I love that so much.
00:41I would love for you to be a full-time housewife.
00:43If you were, what would your tagline be? Have you thought about it?
00:47Oh my God.
00:48I've come up with so many nasty ones.
00:51I really have.
00:52Like ones that I just think will be like, and I just don't want to say them.
00:56Yeah, no, because all I can think in my head are ones that would really be like zingers.
01:02Okay.
01:02I don't want to start anything, but what would it be?
01:06It would be like, it would be, you thought you wanted to be a housewife.
01:09You didn't even know how good you had it.
01:12Love it.
01:12I love it.
01:13Friend up.
01:13Here's to the friends up, baby.
01:15Here's to the friends up.
01:16Best role ever.
01:18Is it the best role ever?
01:20Yeah.
01:20Not this season.
01:21Not this season.
01:22I mean, you're doing full-time housewife work though this season.
01:25Thank you for that.
01:25It feels like that a little bit.
01:27No, but like friend of is, I think friend of is not what it used to be.
01:32The last season, it's really nice to be able to kind of float in and float out.
01:35Sure, yeah.
01:35Right.
01:36And it doesn't, it's not as intense.
01:38Right.
01:39Your whole family is not in the middle of it and you're already, whatever you're going through,
01:43personally, you're sort of more, you know, on the outskirts, but not.
01:48Yeah.
01:49So I definitely enjoy that role.
01:51I enjoy the friend of role.
01:52Definitely.
01:53You do it well.
01:54Biggest regret?
01:56So far.
01:57Signing up for The Real Housewives of New Jersey?
01:59No.
02:01The biggest regret.
02:03I guess that I should have listened to Margaret and Rachel and just shut it down when their names
02:10came up.
02:10And I, again, I, in my mind and still to this day, I was defending my friends, but I shouldn't have
02:16tried.
02:16Yeah.
02:17I should have just said, you know what?
02:19Say whatever you want about them.
02:20I'm not going to respond.
02:23And, or just walked away.
02:24Right.
02:25No good deed, right?
02:25That's right.
02:27No good deed.
02:28Was, a lot of people on social media saying, was Margaret trying to control you this season?
02:32Did you ever get that?
02:33I mean, I know you said, you know, I'm not your soldier.
02:35You cannot tell me who and who not to talk to.
02:38Margaret tends to want to control.
02:40I mean, that's just to know Margaret is to know that.
02:42Sure.
02:43But I mean, I'm not a tool, you know?
02:45So I can't, I do what I think is the right thing to do for me in the end.
02:51I think Margaret knows that.
02:52So, I mean, she's not the only one.
02:55I think that a lot of women on the show, like, want to be in control, right?
02:59But did she actually control me?
03:00No, no.
03:02Is Danielle's clothing line basic?
03:04Like Teresa said.
03:08I got to get you to sip one time.
03:11Who is the most loyal and disloyal member of the group?
03:15I'm the most loyal.
03:16So easy.
03:17So easy.
03:19The most disloyal member of the group.
03:23Yeah, no.
03:25Will Teresa and Joe ever reconcile?
03:27I know you kind of talked about that a little bit before.
03:29I mean, I would never say no to that.
03:31Yeah.
03:32I just wouldn't.
03:33I don't, because I think that one day the show is going to go away.
03:36It goes away for everyone.
03:37And then, you know, we're left with our lives and our kids and aging.
03:42I'm here to tell you.
03:43And, you know, life going by.
03:45And I think they're going to be very sad.
03:48And they are, who knows what the future holds.
03:50But listen, I'm not that much older than them, but I'm older.
03:55But, you know, family and the people you love become increasingly important as you get older.
04:00So here's hoping.
04:01Yeah.
04:02How do you think fans will feel if there is a cast shakeup next season?
04:04How do you think fans will feel about that coming off of this finale?
04:07Since we're not going to have.
04:08Well, well, I mean, if you are on social media at all, the fans seem to really want it.
04:14In what form they want it.
04:15I mean, it depends what you're reading, right?
04:17So they have all kinds of ideas of what that should look like.
04:22I'm glad I'm not making those decisions.
04:24I think that from what I read, it feels like the viewers are ready for some change, right?
04:33So I don't know that anybody will be that.
04:34Well, it depends how it pans out, right?
04:36Like if it's the Teresa fans will lose their minds if it goes one way,
04:41the Melissa fans if it goes the other way.
04:45But you can't please everyone.
04:46No, you can't please everybody.
04:47How did your husband feel about you revealing your hookup with James Gandolfini?
04:51He's so proud.
04:52He's so proud.
04:52It's his proudest moment yet.
04:56He always was.
04:57He was like, I married a woman who slept with James.
05:01I'm afraid to say it.
05:02I got too much like crap about it.
05:04I'm sorry, with all due respect.
05:06Were you surprised that people had something to say about it?
05:09I wasn't.
05:09They were sort of like, you know, he's not there to defend himself.
05:12And I was like, I'm not really accusing him of anything.
05:15He wasn't married.
05:16I wasn't married.
05:16It was before The Sopranos.
05:18It was like we were kids in New York City.
05:21I was madly in love with him.
05:23He barely knew my last name.
05:25I mean, but I wasn't, I didn't think that I was disparaging him in any way.
05:30I was, again, just like I was, it was unrequited love.
05:33And, but yeah, people didn't like it.
05:36Not everyone loved that.
05:37Some people did.
05:38I did.
05:39I did not mean any disrespect.
05:40I think he's one of the greatest actors of all time.
05:43He really is.
05:44And the one that got away.
05:46Although again, he was the one that was never there.
05:50Well, cheers to you, Jen.
05:51Thank you so much.
05:52You are more than welcome to come on this couch.
05:54You promise?
05:54Yes.
05:55But I wasn't going to leave.
05:56That blanket is yours.
05:56I was actually going to stay tonight.
05:58I don't know what you mean.