Joe Giudiceis continuing to remain focused on his family as he continues to appeal hisdeportation orderabroad.
For the first time since he wasfreed from ICE custodyandflew to his native Italyon Oct. 11, theReal Housewives of New Jerseystarspoke outin a video on Monday for Bravo’s The Daily Dish.
“You just gotta look forward and never look back,” began Joe, 47.
“Life, it’s always better to look through the windshield and not through the rear view mirror,” he continued. “It’s a much bigger picture when you’re looking through the windshield. But at the end of the day, people make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect.”
Joe, who shares four daughters — Gia, 18, Gabriella, 15, Milania, 14, and Audriana, 10 — with wifeTeresa Giudice, said that he’s “learned a valuable lesson” amid his deportation appeal.
“I’ve learned a valuable lesson from all this and I know my family is the most important thing to me, but it’s better that I’m out here than in there,” said Joe, who concluded with a message to his family: “I just want to let you know that I love you and I’m always here for you. You know that.”
The touching message comes the same day Teresa announced that she and Joe will sit down withAndy Cohenfor a special Bravo episode airing this upcoming Sunday.
“Joe and I will be sitting down with @Andy to discuss everything that has been happening with us and our family the past few months,” tweeted Teresa, 47. “Tune in to a special ‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey Special Event: Joe and Teresa Unlocked’ airing Sunday at 8PM on @bravotv #RHONJ.”
Joe has been away from the home he shares with Teresa and their children since he began a 41-month prison sentence for mail, wire and bankruptcy fraud in March 2016.
He wasreleasedin March, after an immigration courtruled to deportJoe last October. (Though he has lived in the United States since he was a child,he never obtained American citizenship, and immigrants can be deported if they are convicted of “a crime of moral turpitude” or an “aggravated felony,” according to U.S. law.)
A petition to be released back to his home wasn’t granted, but arequest to go to Italy was. Earlier this month, he was released from ICE custody and flew to Rome, where he has been spending time with family and FaceTiming his children.
“We are still fighting and it is his desire to return home to the United States to be reunited with his family,” his lawyer James J. Leonard Jr. said in a statement to PEOPLE.
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They also stated that Joe is still hopeful his appeal will be granted, allowing him to come back to the United States. In the event that he does prevail in his case after he has been sent to Italy, Joe requests that ICE facilitate his return home.
A final ruling is expected in November.
On Wednesday, a clip for the upcoming season ofRHONJappeared to show Teresa admitting she“hooked up” with someoneamid Joe’s deportation battle. Her lawyerlater told PEOPLEthat the full context of the clip shows that she was talking about someone she had kissed “more than 30 years ago when they were in high school together.”
The Real Housewives of New Jersey Special Event: Joe and Teresa Unlockedairs Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
source: people.com
