'Real Housewives of New Jersey' Star Kim DePaola: What You Didn't See on the Season Finale

By:OK! Staff

Oct. 6 2012, Published 5:00 a.m. ET

On the season finale of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, cast members Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga almost came to blows over the reveal of Melissa’s stripper past.

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RHONJ cast member Kim DePaola spills all the juicy details exclusively to Star and says that she — not Teresa — was behind Melissa’s confrontation. “Did I know what I was getting us into? Yes. Did Teresa? Not at all,” Kim states.

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“I know for a fact Melissa worked at Lookers and was a dancer. Not only have eyewitnesses told me, random people have come into my store, Posche Boutique, saying she was a dancer — not a bartender. Melissa doesn’t like the word ‘stripper,’ so we’ll call her a dancer.”

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