Mob Wives Hottie Natalie Sees the Frame; Gravano's "Breakdown"
We have written that Karen Gravano departed her Arizona home, hopped on a plane (leaving behind her husband and children, as she herself admitted during what we can only call a "dramatic breakdown" during the last episode of "Mob Wives") and flew cross country to New York so she could defend and/or support and/or whatever her good friend Renee in the face of a vicious tweet Natalie posted.
As I have learned this past week, Karen Gravano did not come to New York to defend Renee because Natalie posted a nasty Tweet. Natalie never even posted the nasty tweet in the first place. In fact, Karen had been bashing Natalie and others on Twitter long before anyone else, and Natalie was simply defending herself and friend Alicia DiMichele.
As noted on one of our new favorite blogs, Reality Ashhole: "I remember when Karen attacked them first. She was bitter about being fired and she went after the new girls. I don't know why Karen can't just be honest about starting this drama herself."
But then we have to wonder, since when were Karen and Renee best friends in the first place? Karen was indeed very bitter about getting fired and attacked a lot of people, including Renee.
A headline and a few tweets from another one of my favorite blogs: Karen Gravano Calls Renee Graziano A Coward - The Real Housewives | News. Dirt. Gossip.: "Yesterday, Renee tweeted “b clear my sis put it on the line 4 u girls!! SHE FED US ALL U were GREEDY n now unemployed be angry at urself NOT HER #bossbloodline.” She then oddly added how her love for Karen Gravano is unconditional. Karen Gravano has since responded to Renee via twitter insinuating that she is a coward "
Come to think of it, it was Gravano herself who started off the whole New Blood season, giving the show additional exposure (and us one of our top 10 most-read blog posts in the process; see previous link).
Reader, I once swore to myself that I would never write a story based on a tweet or any other form of social media whatsoever. But as shown in a previous story, I have since changed my tune. Some of these tweets are valuable from a journalistic viewpoint; therefore, we now view as indispensable the various blogs that have preserved these tweets. As we know, tweets can be deleted, especially when they offer what we can only call "inconvenient truths."
One tweet Natalie posted caught our attention:
Some other tweets we read about but couldn't find had to do with a "setup" and breaking confidentiality clauses, never a good idea, Natalie. The outfits behind some of these reality shows are worse than the mob...
But as we noted, it is pretty clear what is going on this season: punish Natalie Guercio because she helped make the novelist (Renee, I refer to) look foolish. (Yes, we know it is a reality show, but the fact is, reality show or not, nobody ever wants to look bad, except for fools who don't even know when they look bad....)
Renee certainly doesn't need much help on the making-oneself-look-foolish front.
Take Renee at her own words:
Piece of advice for Renee: it helps if you don't write on social media while drunk and stoned...
Natalie (we don't bother to make the distinction as to which Natalie we refer to; when we refer to the other one, you will know), we see the frame up happening....
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