Rachel Fuda made a conscious decision to keep her mouth shut about drama on The Real Housewives of New Jersey . When she exclusively sat down with Us Weekly , we had to ask whether she considered saying anything about costar Teresa Giudice ’s husband, Luis “Louie” Ruelas . Fuda, 33, replied, “No, because I have morals.
” “I’ve said that a million times but that is my biggest downfall, as a Housewife, is that I hold myself to a higher standard than some of the women that are on our show,” Fuda exclusively told Us after the season 14 special “Off the Rails” episode of the Bravo show, which aired Sunday, August 11. “I don’t feel like I need to ruin people’s reputations and livelihoods in order to make myself successful. I wasn’t raised that way.
” Fuda, however, did weigh in on whether she thinks Ruelas, 49, is the “downfall” of RHONJ . “I wasn’t here before he got here. And I think that’s an important thing to kind of realize is, like, it happened at the same time.
From what I recall, his involvement in the show happened simultaneously, increased when I became a housewife,” she explained. “So from what people are saying, it sounds like that.” Fuda noted that there’s been a “common denominator for 14 years,” which hasn’t been Ruelas.
(Fuda is seemingly referring to Giudice, 52, who is the only remaining original cast member of the Bravo series.) “So, I think that he kind of poured gasoline on the fire. He just kind of mic dro.