Gia Giudice won’t forget when her reality TV life had an impact on her sorority life.
During the Saturday, September 20, episode of iHeartRadio’s “Dirty Rush: The Truth About Sorority Life” podcast, Gia, 24, recalled the moment she was summoned into a sorority standards meeting after mom Teresa Giudice and Jackie Goldschneider had a massive fight on The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
“My mom and Jackie were arguing. My mom heard a cheating rumor and Jackie goes, ‘That’s like me hearing that Gia snorts coke in the bathroom at parties.’ My mother flipped out,” Gia explained. “It was obviously an insane statement to make, regardless if it was an analogy.”
Ultimately, the fight went viral and spread online quickly. As a result, Gia was called into standards her junior year of college to make sure she didn’t use drugs.
“I’m sitting on this Zoom call with a straight face, and they go, ‘Gia, we saw what has been on the tabloids and what just aired on Bravo. Do you participate in doing the drug cocaine?’” Gia remembered being asked. “I was like, ‘No, I do not do coke.’ And they saw just how unfazed I was and how pissed I was, and it kind of ended there.”
Although it was a “very quick” phone call, Gia admitted she found the whole thing annoying and avoidable.
“The girls in my sorority knew that I didn’t engage in cocaine. They knew that I didn’t do the drug,” she said. “It was just such a crazy statement and such a crazy question to ask me. You didn’t have to bring me to standards for that.”
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On the “Dirty Rush” podcast, Gia joins Bachelor Nation’s Daisy Kent and The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jen Fessler every week to peel back the layers of sorority life.
According to Gia, standards are like a “government that runs sorority life and keeps everything in check.”
Although the reality star has graduated from college and has moved on to other things — including a stint on the upcoming season of Special Forces — Gia still thinks the incident with her sorority’s standards team was “a very immature move.”
“They probably just were on their high horse for a minute and got off on it, but it definitely annoyed me,” she said. “That was the only time I got called to standards, and I was so upset that I texted Jackie about it afterwards.”
According to Gia, Jackie, 48, apologized and never intended for the televised argument to affect anyone’s college experience.
“She never wished for that to happen to me,” she added. “Now me and Jackie are fine and all is good.”
