{"id":282195,"date":"2019-10-22T05:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1085076"},"modified":"2019-10-22T05:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:19:24","slug":"joe-giudice-speaks-out-for-the-first-time-since-leaving-for-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/joe-giudice-speaks-out-for-the-first-time-since-leaving-for-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Giudice Speaks Out For the First Time Since Leaving For Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019912\/rs_600x600-191012082925-600-joe-giudice-facetime-gia-instagram-cjh-101219.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.678386763185\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"25.886246122027\">\n<p>Joe Giudice&nbsp;is a changed man.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Real Housewives of New Jersey<\/em>&nbsp;star spoke out for the first time since he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1079548\/joe-giudice-granted-request-to-be-released-to-italy-amid-deportation-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released from U.S. ICE custody<\/a> and flown to his native Italy on October 11. &#8220;You just gotta look forward,&#8221; he began a video message posted on Bravo&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/the-daily-dish\/joe-giudice-speaks-release-from-custody-italy-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Daily Dish<\/em><\/a>, &#8220;And never look back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life, it&#8217;s always better to through the windshield and not through the rearview mirror, you know?&#8221; the 47-year-old continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s a much bigger picture when you&#8217;re looking through the windshield. But, at the end of the day, people make mistakes. Nobody&#8217;s perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, following his 41-month&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1021737\/joe-giudice-released-from-prison-to-ice-custody-as-he-awaits-possible-deportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prison sentence<\/a>&nbsp;and 7 months in ICE custody, Joe knows he has grown. &#8220;I&#8217;ve learned a valuable lesson from all this,&#8221; he admitted. &#8220;I know my family is the most important thing to me. But it&#8217;s better that I&#8217;m out here than in there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He concluded the short clip with a&nbsp;shout out&nbsp;to his wife <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/teresa_giudice\">Teresa Giudice<\/a><\/strong> and their four daughters <strong>Gia<\/strong>, <strong>Gabriella<\/strong>, <strong>Milania<\/strong> and <strong>Audriana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.013605442177\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.316326530612\">\n<p>&#8220;I just want to let you know that I love you,&#8221;&nbsp;the proud dad said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m always here for you. You know that.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As E! previously reported,&nbsp;the family is looking forward to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1082708\/teresa-giudice-s-family-looking-forward-to-visiting-joe-giudice-in-italy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visiting Joe in Italy<\/a>&nbsp;as he awaits the result of his deportation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1033660\/joe-giudice-s-deportation-appeal-denied-by-ice-as-final-decision-still-looms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">case appeal<\/a>. Until then,&nbsp;they are&nbsp;relying on FaceTime to chat with one another.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, following his release, 18-year-old Gia shared a snap of her call with Joe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1082315\/joe-giudice-facetimes-with-daughter-after-ice-release-in-first-photo-in-3-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marking the first photo<\/a> of him since he entered prison in 2016.&nbsp;&#8220;One of the happiest moments of my life!&#8221; Gia wrote. &#8220;Love you so much daddy, so happy your free! See you so soon.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"html-external-3\" data-type=\"async\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32.41124260355\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-html-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.2603550295858\">\n<p>He&#8217;s certainly felt the love since touching down in Italy, where he was also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1082391\/joe-giudice-is-all-smiles-as-he-reunites-with-his-brother-in-italy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reunited with his brother<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>Pete Giudice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A day we&#8217;ve all been patiently waiting for,&#8221; Pete&#8217;s wife&nbsp;<strong>Sheila<\/strong>&nbsp;shared on Instagram, alongside a photo of the siblings. &#8220;Pete and Joe reunited at last. Smiles bigger and brighter than the sky. Our hearts are so full.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>(E! and Bravo are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1085076\/joe-giudice-speaks-out-for-the-first-time-since-leaving-for-italy?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Giudice&nbsp;is a changed man. The&nbsp;Real Housewives of New Jersey&nbsp;star spoke out for the first time since he was released from U.S. ICE custody and flown to his native Italy on October 11. &#8220;You just gotta look forward,&#8221; he began a video message posted on Bravo&#8217;s&nbsp;The Daily Dish, &#8220;And never look back.&#8221; &#8220;Life, it&#8217;s always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-16 02:56:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}