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Luis Ruelas was featured in a recently shared video online, in which he was seemingly seen going on a profanity-laced rant against an ex and declaring that he’d hit them “if it was legal.” But is the video real?
Following news of the dismissal of a court case, the 50-year-old Real Housewives of New Jersey star and husband of Teresa Giudice, 53, brought against his former fiancée, Vanessa Reiser, who he attempted to have thrown behind bars, a clip of Luis “going off and threatening an ex” was posted on Instagram, prompting him to speak out.
“They don’t have a woman out there that’s gonna tell me what to do the way you tell me. You deliver things with an iron fist, b*tch, and that’s why you get it back verbally to you,” Luis seemingly began in the recording, which was obtained by
He then appeared to grow irate.
“I don’t f*cking care. I’m pissed. I’m f*cking angry! Angry!” he yelled while wearing a black hoodie and sunglasses. “I watched my children bleed in anger and pain. I’ve watched them scream and cry. They go to school, and I go to their bed and grab their pillow. As I sat here alone, dealing with all that sh*t when you made yourself important or about you. F*ck you! F*ck you!”
As he continued against the unnamed ex, Luis appeared to admit to wanting to hit her.
“If it was legal, I swear to God I’d go over there right now with a nine-iron and I’d smack you right over the f*cking head, you f*cking c*nt,” he declared. “You have no idea what the f*ck you’ve done. You don’t know every step you’ve made that you’ve crossed my path, that you’ve insulted me, that you’ve degraded me. Degraded me. That’s why I would call you a c*nt. That’s why I would tell you you’re a dime a dozen. That’s why it’s easy to look away. That’s why I ignored you.”
“I didn’t go out with other women. I stayed home with my f*cking children every day. Every f*cking day. And it was worth it. It was better than being with you, you f*cking c*nt b*tch. B*tch!” he concluded.
WARNING: The video below contains profanity.
Unsurprisingly, following the sharing of the clip, fans had a lot to say.
“I wonder what his sons and Teresa’s daughters think about this one. May the real Louie finally stand up! So disturbing!!!” one person declared.
“Teresa, take note,” another advised, along with a red flag emoji.
Someone else suspected that Bravo was distancing itself from Teresa due to her husband‘s shocking antics, which have been leaking online since they began dating in late 2020.
“Is this why Bravo is taking a break from Teresa?” they wondered.
Another said, “This is so cringey, it pained me to watch. And his theatrical performance … everything was off-putting.”
Then, after someone else wrote, “This is scary,” another agreed, “This dude is unhinged.”
Meanwhile, in response to the shared clip, Luis reportedly reached out to Up and Adam‘s
Although there’s no real way of knowing for sure whether the video was AI or not, Adam did his due diligence and ran it through AI, which said that, based on the lighting, they didn’t feel like it was AI. However, they also said they couldn’t confirm that it wasn’t.
Following Adam’s post, some signaled a court appearance in which the clip was allegedly shown.
“That’s him. They showed that video 6 years ago in court,” one person alleged, claiming they asked
“Lol. AI, eh? From six years ago. Now, that’s funny,” another replied.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey is currently on hiatus ahead of its potential 15th season.
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay opens up about her exit from the Mormon church in the forthcoming three-part Bravo documentary Surviving Mormonism, in which she also sheds lights on divisive topics including conversion therapy.
The reality star, 51, departed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints when she joined the cast of the Bravo series in 2020.
The Carmel-by-the-Sea, California-born TV personality told People on Tuesday that she felt spiritually fulfilled by putting together the documentary about the church.
‘I never thought that being an antagonist to my faith and identity and family and community would feel this empowering and fulfilling, but it does,’ the Brigham Young University alum said.
Gay said she felt ‘compelled to do more’ to spread awareness toward issues she feels needs the public’s attention.
The Bravo docuseries also features interviews conducted with former members of the Mormon church.
‘I feel very, very precious about these survivors, about their willingness to share with me,’ Gay said. ‘They’re telling a Real Housewife their darkest secrets.
‘That takes a leap of faith, and I feel such a kinship to them.’
Gay credited the 2016 Leah Remini doc Scientology and the Aftermath as an inspiration in turning her own personal experience with the Mormon church into a documentary.
‘I thought what she did was so important and, in a legitimate way, giving visibility and a platform to voices that were silenced,’ Gay said. ‘That was very similar to my experience when I left the Mormon church.’
Gay said she ‘didn’t really realize how similar that experience was until [she] left.’
Gay said she especially appreciated Remini’s work in looking back on her own experiences with faith, and how she couldn’t necessarily see the entirety of the situation.
‘When I was in it, rainbows and unicorns, great,’ Gay said. ‘But when you leave and when you draw a line in the sand, I recognized and heard for the first time really just an onslaught of people’s experiences that were about surviving Mormonism.’
Gay continued: ‘If you’re in it, you don’t hear of those stories. You don’t speak of them. No one talks about them.
‘They are sidelined and silenced and made to disappear. The second you leave, you’re hearing it for the first time. I was hearing criticisms of the church for the first time.’
Gay said last month in an Instagram post that she was ‘deeply grateful to the brave participants who shared their stories of faith and survival for this docuseries. I know when you hear them you will feel the same.’
The reality star told People that she felt ostracized upon departing the religious institution.
She has past opened up about that experience in her books Bad Mormon (2023) and Good Time Girl (2024).
Gay, upon her departure from the church, said she ‘felt obligated’ and ‘a deep responsibility’ to share stories of experiences she had while an active member.
‘Leaving has taught me and exposed me to so many people that had stories to tell and wanted to share that with me,’ Gay said.
She added, ‘I suddenly had this opportunity to meet people from all over the world that wanted to share their stories with me, and that felt very powerful and inspiring.’
Gay stressed to People that she wasn’t trying to slam the institution, but just rather shed light on crucial things that have happened on their watch.
‘I don’t think this is a show about tearing down the church,’ Gay said. ‘I think this is a show about giving space to survivors that experience the shadow side of something that we all find fascinating, but no one ever talks about.
‘It’s not about the church. It’s about what people that survived the church have to say now.’
Said Gay: ‘I think the church should be worried about the show because the church says that they stand for truth and righteousness and love and humanity.’
Surviving Mormonism with Heather Gay is slated to debut Tuesday on Bravo at 9:45 p.m. ET.