Now-former Real Housewives of New Jersey star Siggy Flicker was a guest of Kevin Undergaro on The Tomorrow Show this week and she let her opinions fly free. Siggy shared her thoughts on a number of topics ranging from her experiences working with Harvey Weinstein to her relationship with Margaret Josephs, exiting the show after two seasons and so much more! She also reveals that she will NOT be watching RHONJ next season and also doesnât believe the friendship between Teresa Giudice and Danielle Staub is genuine.
Siggy shared that doing reality TV is hard work and that it wasnât her choice to drag out the stupid cake story for so long. She is convinced that there wouldnât have been any material for season 8 if it wasnât for her.
âIâve watched the whole season and I was shocked and I was upset. It takes a toll on you.â Reality TV is not really reality TV. It is a lot of work and you constantly have to bring up the same thing over and over and over. Do you think I want to talk about cake and a I make up a storyline: âletâs talk about cake for five episodesâ â I was over the cake after it happened.â She adds, âWhat you see is what you get with me. If there wasnât a cake, and there wasnât the Soggy-Siggy, there would be no season 8. The whole season was Soggy, Siggy, cake, Hitlerâeverything that I didnât want stretched out to 13 episodes. I donât know what it was, but the whole season, I was the target all season.â She does give credit to the other cast members, though, saying everyone âbrought itâ this season.
She also admits âI really didnât know her!â when talking about her friendship with Margaret Josephs pre-show. She says âI knew her through a friend of mine.â This part of the interview is at the 44 minute mark, take a listen to her explain how she rolled out the red carpet for Margaret.
Siggy believes if Margaret had spoken about the KKK instead of Hitler, it would have made headlines. âLet me ask you a questionâŚAnd I know Iâm gonna get, people are gonna spin this. Housewives of Atlanta: if a white girlâs saying to somebody on Housewives of Atlanta âYou know, what the KKK wouldnât have killed me, does that make them a good group of people?â Oh, trust me, it would have made headlines! But because itâs Hitler and the JewsâŚpeople are like âoh my god you called somebody an antisemite!?â⌠people are offended by that!? Why was Hitler on her brain while looking at the only Jewish girl? And Iâm not backing down from this subject. Not backing down from how I feel. Hitlerâs name should never be trivialized.â
The real reason Siggy thinks she was targeted this season, âFor season 7 I was a fan favorite. Season 7, was such a.. it was just me wanting to have fun and bringing my friends together, and crying, and being me and coming on with a facelift and it was more what I am every single day. Season 8 they said âletâs take her off her high horse, and letâs give it to herâ and they gave it to me. Now, I donât mind that they gave it to me, but I really do feel like they went overboard.â
She also says some of the cast members are cool with being the dancing monkeys because they need the paycheck and the platform, but she wasnât signing up for that.
When asked if Danielle and Teresaâs relationship is not genuine and is more for TV, Siggy responded: âI would have to agree with that. Go on Teresaâs Instagram. Go on Danielleâs Instagram. I mean, I donât know; if, if someoneâs your friend, you hang out with them from time to time, right? I donât, I donât know because I donât, you know, check what theyâre doing and stuff like that, but I know that, authentic friendships on this show are, you know, Teresa and Dolores see each other, um, me and Dolores are constantly together, Margaret and Danielle have an authentic friendship; theyâre together a lot. Melissa is friends with Teresa. Thatâs an authentic, people donât want to believe, but it is authentic and theyâre sister-in-laws that used to not get along that are getting along now.â
Siggy believes Margaret was âcoercedâ into acting the way she did, âI have to say something in defense of Margaret, and I donât think it was all Margaret. I just think that she was coerced a little bit â my personal opinion. I think that when youâre new to the show, because Iâve been there, and people will ask you questions, âwell donât you think thatâ and you know, your mind gets rolling, and thereâs a lot of pressure to make a good show. I canât imagine that somebody who doesnât really know me that well, youâve never saw the inside of my kitchen, itâs not like we vacation together, you donât know my husband, we never really got a chance to really get to know each other, right off the bat, you come out with one after one.â
Siggy explains why she wonât be watching The Real Housewives of New Jersey next year, âI will not watch next year. Sometimes I say to myself, âwhy do I have to be so honest?â No, I wonât watch next year because of everything I went through this year.â
Siggy says that she only keeps in touch with Teresa Giudice and Dolores Catania and thatâs it.
When asked why business associate Harvey Weinstein didnât try anything with her: âI am a Sabra. I am a very strong person, but I make a conscious effort when Iâm around a man to talk about my husband a lot. I do it. I do it because I want to send a message out that um, sometimes Iâll see a man looking at me in a certain way and heâll say âI think youâre prettyâ or âI love your smileâ, and Iâll be like, âoh my God thatâs my husbands favorite thing is my beauty mark or my smileâ. I have a way of always taking it back to Michael Campanella, itâs just, I donât ever want to put myself in that situation so Iâm very aware of my surroundings. Trust me, Iâm aware of everything thatâs happening around me, so if Iâm feeling something, itâs legit. Iâm feeling it, but you have to be very very careful not to give the, ya know, the wrong, ya know, sign to somebody that you are interested, or, you know.â
Edited to add that Siggy shares in the interview that Harvey never made any advances on her and was nothing but nice to her.
The interview starts around the 32 minute mark and is worth a listen. Siggy discusses her great relationship with her ex-husband, she dishes on celebrity relationships and gives her two cents on the Kardashians, why Sammi Sweetheart is skipping the Jersey Shore reunion and much more.
TELL US â ARE YOU GOING TO MISS SIGGY? DO YOU THINK EDITING GOT IN THE WAY OF THIS SEASON?
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