The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Rachel Fuda drummed up some buzz on social media when she cropped her co-star and archenemy Teresa Giudice out of the official cast photo she posted on her Instagram page. Ahead of the Season 14 premiere, DECIDER caught up with Fuda, who revealed her castmates’ reactions to the shady move.

“They were proud of me. And I’m proud of myself,” Fuda told us. “Because we shouldn’t pretend to like people we don’t like.”

Fuda posted a series of photos promoting her sophomore season on RHONJ on Friday, April 5. Eagle-eyed Bravo fans, however, quickly noticed that Giudice was carefully cropped out of the photo that otherwise included all of the other cast members.

While many of the Tre-huggers came out in droves to slam Fuda for cutting Giudice out of the photo, others cheered the reality star on from the comments section.

“LMAOOOOOOOO MY FAVORITE CROP ????????????????????????????,” one fan wrote, while another added, “Love you and your hubby! Wonderful crop job????✌️”

Even Giudice’s estranged sister-in-law and RHONJ co-star Melissa Gorga commented, “☠️ ✔️.”

Fuda and Giudice’s feud stems back to Season 13, with the former claiming the OG Housewife immediately wrote her off for being friends with Gorga.

“So, coming on the show as Melissa’s friend … I personally felt like I was immediately polarized — even without polarizing myself,” Fuda told Page Six‘s Virtual Real-Tea podcast in February 2023. “Just put Melissa next to me and I’m, like, written off automatically which sucks for me because I would have liked a fair chance to have gotten to know Teresa and maybe flourish our own friendship.”

However, any chance at friendship immediately vanished when Fuda’s husband accused Giudice’s husband, Louie Ruelas, of hiring a private investigator to contact his incarcerated ex-wife while Fuda was in the process of adopting their son at the Season 13 reunion.

Ruelas denied the allegations. But the drama between the two women only seems to continue in Season 14, as the show’s cold open shows Fuda telling Giudice to shut her “fat fucking hot dog-lipped mouth” at a tense cast sit-down.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 14 premieres on Sunday, May 5 at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.