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.

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