Teresa made no secret of how she blamed Joe, 45, for all their tax fraud problems that also saw her spend just shy of a year in jail herself and losing out on time with her late mother Antonia Gorga. She still stunned her family when she admitted just how long she had gone without so much as visiting. Teresa and her girls were seen driving to the prison, with the road trip bringing back painful memories for her. 'The last time I was going to see Joe I had to turn around because my mom went to the hospital,' she recalled, with her mother Antonia dying soon after. 'I did lose time with her and I feel that it's his fault.' With tears down her face in a confessional she added: 'Sucks. Life sucks. 'Talking to Joe is not gonna be easy,' she admitted. 'I never wanna bring up serious stuff with the girls because I know the girls love spending every minute with him. 'You're talking seven-and-a-half to eight months,' her brother Joe Gorga said in obvious shock when Teresa confessed to her last visit. 'That's a long time not to see your husband.' 'I mean ... it's been busy,' Teresa replied, admitting: 'Yeah, it's been a long time.' 'Teresa may say it's because she's been so busy - but she's angry,' Joe's wife Melissa Gorga insisted later. Teresa admitted: 'I'm nervous to see Joe after all this time, and I want to hear him say he's sorry - and really mean it. Because it's festering my brain and it's something I can't stop.' Teresa's family let on to just how serious they feared it could prove. 'The way I've heard my sister talking, if he doesn't apologize, I don't know - she might walk,' Joe told his wife, who agreed saying: 'She sounds like she's gonna walk.' 'She wants him to accept that he's the reason that a lot of this has happened to her,' Melissa explained later. 'I just want our daughters to know that he's really sorry about letting them down. Because that's what he did - he let us down.' Viewers were not able to see the reunion, with a message saying cameras were not allowed in the prison - leading to confusion over exactly what happened. At first, Teresa insisted: 'The moment I saw Joe I got really choked up and all that courage I'd built up to ask him for an apology just went away.' But when Joe and Melissa asked her about the trip, she told a wildly different story. Admitting she was 'nervous' and 'emotional' she told them: 'I said, ''I lost 11-and-a-month with my mom,'' and I said 'You not only did it to me you did it to our daughters. Why weren't you on top of everything? I didn't sign up for this''.' Then, 'I wanna hear, I'm sorry.'
