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Dolores Catania is setting the file straight after her ex-husband, Frank Catania, urged their son, Frank “Frankie” Catania Jr., would not be returning to The Real Housewives of New Jersey for season 14 after being dragged into Luis Ruelas‘ drama on season 13.

Whereas attending a celebration for her cowl of Bella Magazine at Avenue in Lengthy Department, New Jersey, on Wednesday, Dolores revealed the place she stands together with her castmates, shared her present relationship with Frank, defined how she stays impartial amid forged feuds, and extra.

“My first occasion within the Hamptons as a housewife was the Bella white occasion, and I met my stylist there, The Type Duo, and so they’ve been dressing me for each reunion, each occasion I’ve ever been to, and so they’re wonderful. They’re a part of Bella,” Dolores informed Actuality Blurb on July 12 of her affiliation with Bella.

Dolores can be an enormous fan of the publication’s CEO, Vanessa Coppes, saying she loves Vanessa and “the whole lot [she] stands for.”

Though the previous few seasons of RHONJ have been suffering from the family drama between Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga, with a lot of the forged ending up on Staff Teresa or Staff Melissa, Dolores, who’s been featured since season seven in 2016, has efficiently remained impartial — a real feat.

“It’s the way in which I began, and it’s the way in which I’ll finish,” Dolores informed us of her stance. “I at all times stood my floor on my rules. I’ve by no means seen something so egregious the place I’d say, ‘I can’t be your buddy due to what you probably did to my different buddy.’ That may be actually dangerous. The issues that they fight about, I feel they’ll get by. So I type of let all of it fizz out.”

In response to Dolores, she discovered throughout a remedy session years in the past that feelings “don’t journey in rational channels.

“I went one time a very long time in the past after I was getting divorced… When individuals are emotional, they’re not rational. After they relax, we’ll speak,” she shared.

And whereas we needed to know all in regards to the upcoming 14th season of RHONJ, Dolores couldn’t say a lot as she and her castmates haven’t but formally begun.

“We’re not there but so we’re simply speaking about it,” she confirmed of the present’s standing.

That stated, she feels good about what the brand new season will entail — at the least for her.

“I’m okay. Pay attention, I at all times go into each season beginning over. All the pieces’s left behind me,” she clarified, earlier than including, “[But] I don’t know if everyone’s gonna be like that,” probably in reference to Teresa and Melissa’s ongoing beef.

Along with being on good phrases with all of her co-stars, saying, “I’ve a relationship with everybody exterior the present,“ Dolores stated she and Frank, who didn’t like how their dynamic shifted amid her relationship with Paul Connell, are in a very good place following their reunion spat.

“We’re good. Pay attention, nobody will get by way of issues like me and Frank. We get mad at one another for a second — not even,” she defined.

As for the upcoming season, Dolores stated she wasn’t positive if the season 13 newbies, together with Danielle Cabral, Rachel Fuda, and Jennifer Fessler, can be again.

“We don’t know something till we’re truly in entrance of the cameras,” she revealed.

Then, relating to Frankie’s potential exit from the present, which Frank spoke of on Tamra Judge and Teddi Mellencamp‘s podcast, claiming Frankie didn’t just like the adverse spin that was placed on his time working alongside Luis, Dolores stated we should always take what he says with a grain of salt.

“Oh don’t hearken to Frank. He talks too [much]. The present is a part of our household, and that’s the way in which it’ll keep,” she confirmed.

The Actual Housewives of New Jersey season 14 is predicted to go into production in mid-August.