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Gia Giudice is getting candid about her family’s recent legal trouble. A month after mom Teresa Giudice and stepdad Luis Ruelas were hit with several million dollars in tax liens , the 24-year-old spoke with PEOPLE about how their family is doing. When she and her three sisters — Milania, 19, Gabriella, 20, and Audriana, 15 — learned about the news, Gia says they had an open line of communication.
“It was definitely a family discussion,” she explains. “My sisters were calling, just making sure — because they're at college, everyone definitely checks in — ‘Is everything under control?’ And [Teresa and Ruelas] obviously said, ‘Yes, everything is being handled.’ So certain things we obviously do talk about as a family, but if it's careless stories, then we just brush it off.
” Related: Gia Giudice Looks Back on Parents Teresa and Joe's Legal Troubles with New Appreciation: 'It Was Not Easy' (Exclusive) In March, PEOPLE reported that The Real Housewives of New Jersey star and her husband were each issued tax liens totaling $3 million , with Teresa owing $303,889.20 and Ruelas owing nearly $2.6 million, in addition to a still-open case for $163,523.
94 from December 2024. This comes a decade after Teresa and her then-husband Joe Giudice were criminally convicted of financial crimes, and both subsequently went to prison. Related: Gia Giudice Says Mom Teresa Giudice Has 'Everything Under Control' amid $3M Tax Debt: 'Nothing to Worry About' As Gia starts to branch out on her own with her new iHeartRadio podcast, Casual Chaos , and an upcoming reality series, Next Gen NYC , she says she hopes people can separate their perception of her from that of her family.
“It's definitely hard when you're a part of a public family,” she admits. “My whole family's in the public eye. So whatever goes on with my family, [I’m] associated with it.
It's just how it goes. So even though it might not be me, I will still get the wrath of it in the comments, my sisters will. So it kind of affects the whole family, which is unfortunate, but you just have to build tough skin.
” “People are going to love to hate you, hate to love you,” Gia adds. “And you go to the ‘filter comment section,’ you type in some words, you try to avoid the people from being able to comment those things. But also, your haters are your biggest supporters.
So at the end of the day, it is what it is.” Gia grew up with her life documented on RHONJ, and now, she is looking forward to being seen as “an individual” while also addressing her family’s past in a beneficial way. “I'm excited for people to get to know my fun lighthearted self,” she says.
“And I just want them to feel like they're in a conversation with me while listening to my podcast. I want them to feel how casual and easy I am, and I also want them to really feel like they can relate to me.” “So I'm super excited to talk about topics like divorce and talk about how I manage my parents' divorce and maybe see if that can help others, or how I dealt with my parents' incarceration if any of my viewers are dealing with their parents, family members or friends going through incarceration,” she continues.
“I would love to talk about that topic and see how I can help people in that way and really share my advice and try to make an impact in those ways. So I'm super excited to really dive deep.” Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Next Gen NYC premieres Tuesday, June 3, at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo, and new episodes of Gia's iHeartRadio podcast, Casual Chaos , are released weekly on Mondays.
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