Real Housewives star Teresa Giudice abruptly ends live TV interview when asked personal question

An infamous reality star has abruptly ended a live TV interview after being asked a personal question about her family.

Teresa Giudice unceremoniously cut off an interview when asked about tax liens totalling over $US3 million ($4.6 million).

In a clip shared via X Friday, the Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 53, fielded questions from local anchor Larry Potash at WGN9 in Chicago during a remote interview.

“How is it that a family doesn’t pay their taxes for years?” Potash asked. “Is that what the fraud charges were?”

“Um, who’s – what family are you talking about?” the Bravo star asked, to which he replied, “Your family.”

Teresa Giudice abruptly ended a TV interview after she was asked a tax fraud question.

“OK,” Giudice said before attempting to end the video stream. “Let’s just hang up. That’s it,” she said.

Text reading “Teresa’s iPhone” could then be seen on the screen as the call ended.

“She didn’t like that question,” marvelled Potash. “Yeah. Well,” responded his co-anchor in the awkward clip.

In an X re-post of the video, Potash quipped, “In the words of one of our viewers, she evaded that question like …taxes.”

Teresa, who was jailed for fraud charges in 2015, was not impressed with the question and immediately hung up.

A black screen soon appeared, much to the shock of the hosts.

Giudice owes $US303,889.20 ($470,000) in tax liens, according to documents obtained by Page Six back in March. Her husband, Louis “Luis” Ruelas, whom she married in 2022, owes upwards of $US2.6 million ($4 million).

The former Dancing With the Stars star was married to Joe Giudice for 20 years before their 2020 split. And prior to that, both served time in prison for mail, wire and bankruptcy fraud.

Teresa was behind bars for 11 months in 2015. Joe, meanwhile, spent two years in prison before being released in 2019 and subsequently deported to his birthplace of Italy.

Teresa served 11 months behind bars for mail, wire and bankruptcy fraud. Picture: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images/AFP

Her now ex -husband husband Joe Giudice served two years in prison in the US before being deported to Italy in 2019. Picture: Getty Images

Teresa (centre) has been a mainstay cast member on The Real Housewives of New Jersey since Season 1 in 2009. Picture: Tommy Garcia/Bravo

The former couple shares daughters Gia, Gabriella, Milania and Audriana.

Teresa’s lookalike daughter Gia, 24, downplayed the family debt during a March episode of her Casual Chaos iHeart podcast.

“Let’s start from the beginning,” she said.

“My mum has been the sole provider for my sisters and I since the minute my father [Joe] left for prison. The second my mum got home from jail, she has been working her arse off to make sure that my sisters and I live a stable life and that my family is financially stable.”

Gia continued, saying she “can’t stress enough” how hard her “mum has worked” and assured her listeners that “everything will be resolved.”

“My mum has everything under control, and there’s nothing to worry about,” she explained.

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission

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