{"id":290368,"date":"2020-04-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1136959"},"modified":"2020-04-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:00:00","slug":"teresa-giudice-says-her-father-is-struggling-and-asks-fans-for-any-extra-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/teresa-giudice-says-her-father-is-struggling-and-asks-fans-for-any-extra-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Teresa Giudice Says Her Father Is &#8220;Struggling&#8221; and Asks Fans for &#8220;Any Extra Prayers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202032\/rs_600x600-200402101418-600-teresa-gj-4-2-20.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"48.103690685413\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"39.054481546573\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/teresa_giudice\">Teresa Giudice<\/a><\/strong> took to Instagram on Thursday to ask fans to pray for her father <strong>Giacinto Gorga<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this trying time, I&#8217;m graciously asking for any extra prayers, good vibes, love&#8230;.Please send my father&#8217;s way,&#8221; <em>The Real Housewives of New Jersey<\/em> star wrote via the social network. &#8220;My father is struggling and my girls and I need him, we need his love, his presence &amp; his strength.&nbsp;#ThePowerofPrayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also shared a photo of her dad celebrating his birthday alongside the Bravolebrity and her four daughters: <strong>Gia<\/strong>, <strong>Milania<\/strong>, <strong>Gabriella<\/strong> and <strong>Audriana<\/strong>. In addition, she played <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/celine_dion\">C\u00e9line Dion<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s song &#8220;Because You Loved Me&#8221; via her Instagram Stories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Teresa did not specify how her father is &#8220;struggling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After she shared the news, the 47-year-old celebrity received several messages of support from her friends and co-stars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sending so many prayers and love,&#8221; fellow cast member <strong>Margaret Josephs<\/strong> wrote in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prayers,&#8221; added <em>The Real Housewives of Orange County<\/em> alumna <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/vicki_gunvalson\">Vicki Gunvalson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Teresa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1033932\/joe-and-teresa-giudice-split-after-20-years-of-marriage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ex<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/joe_giudice\">Joe Giudice<\/a><\/strong>, shared some kind words, as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love you all,&#8221; he commented. &#8220;God help my father-in-law and family. Prayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"52.972826086957\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.7173913043478\">\n<p>The post came less than two weeks after Teresa&#8217;s sister-in-law and co-star <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/melissa_gorga\">Melissa Gorga<\/a><\/strong> asked her followers for a &#8220;couple extra prayers&#8221; for Giacinto, whom she called &#8220;the best soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"55.655589123867\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10.948640483384\">\n<p>Fans have watched Giacinto experience challenges over the years. Back in November, for instance, Teresa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1094338\/teresa-giudice-leaves-bravocon-early-to-take-her-father-to-the-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had to leave BravoCon<\/a> early to take her father to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has pneumonia,&#8221;&nbsp;her brother, <strong>Joe Gorga<\/strong>,&nbsp;told <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/11\/18\/teresa-giudices-father-hospitalized-with-pneumonia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Page Six<\/em><\/a> at the time. &#8220;He&#8217;s all right. He&#8217;s not that bad, hopefully. He&#8217;ll be okay. So let&#8217;s see what happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.457142857143\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.628571428571\">\n<p>Teresa also opened up about how her family looks after Giacinto during a 2018 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/the-daily-dish\/teresa-giudice-father-giacinto-gorga-hospital-update-real-housewives-of-new-jersey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Daily Dish<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of us can be sick around him because he catches it right away,&#8221; she said at the time. &#8220;We&#8217;re constantly always washing our hands. Like when you have a baby and you make sure everything&#8217;s clean, that&#8217;s how you have to be with him because he gets sick easily.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>E! News reached out to Teresa&#8217;s team but did not receive further details.<\/p>\n<p>(E! and Bravo are both part of NBCUniversal).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1136959\/teresa-giudice-says-her-father-is-struggling-and-asks-fans-for-any-extra-prayers?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>Teresa Giudice took to Instagram on Thursday to ask fans to pray for her father Giacinto Gorga. &#8220;At this trying time, I&#8217;m graciously asking for any extra prayers, good vibes, love&#8230;.Please send my father&#8217;s way,&#8221; The Real Housewives of New Jersey star wrote via the social network. &#8220;My father is struggling and my girls and [&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-290368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-24 04:13:46","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\/290368","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=290368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}