OG Bravo fans may remember a classic scene from Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 that showed Teresa Giudice allegedly paying for over $100,000 of furniture in cash. But Giudice and her castmate Jacqueline Laurita claim that’s not exactly how it happened behind the scenes.

While this may have gone down in Bravo history as just another moment of iconic housewife behavior, Giudice claims it may have contributed to the government’s investigation into her family’s finances that ultimately landed both her and her husband in jail years later.

During an episode of her podcast Turning the Tables, Laurita made a major reveal about that scene.

“Oh, my God! They were handing you the money!” Laurita said when Giudice brought up that episode in particular, per Entertainment Weekly. “The producers were like, ‘We think it would be cool if you paid in cash,’ but we don’t have this much cash on us.”

Giudice said that she and Laurita only had about $500 in cash, but the Bravo producers allegedly gave her smaller bills to make it look like more.

“It showed how much my furniture was, like $140,000 or whatever it was. Then I’m giving out 100-dollar bills. Then they showed the calculator, and it looked like I had all of that money and cash on me,” Giudice explained. “I would have had to walk around with two briefcases [to have that much money].”  

The housewife claimed the cash was just for the show; she actually paid for the furniture with a check.

“I think that’s why the government came after us,” she told Laurita.

In 2014, Giudice and her ex-husband, Joe Giudice, pled guilty to bank, mail, wire, and bankruptcy fraud.

She was sentenced to 15 months in prison, though she only served 11 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., in 2015. Her early release was even captured on RHONJ Season 7, which showed her emotional reunion with her daughters.

Her husband, on the other hand, completed 41 months at the Federal Correctional Institution in New Jersey and an additional seven months in an ICE detention center before being deported to Italy. He now lives in the Bahamas.

Real Housewives of New Jersey is streaming now on Peacock.