Interview With "Mob Wives" Cast Member
This year most of the drama on Mob Wives occurred off screen and after the season ended following a two-part reunion that got heated enough to make Vivica Fox weep. (It almost makes you forget she did a pretty good job kicking ass herself in Kill Bill. See pic--->.)
Since episode one, the major dynamic of the entire season was proclaimed loud and clear: this year it's all about the bitch called pay back that ultimately took the form of an implied major confrontation between Natalie Guercio and Natalie DiDonato.
But the big fistfight or shootout or whatever we all expected never happened. (Nor did we relish the thought of it. We don't like the idea of two women fighting.... we want women to act, well, womanly, not like dudes...And, yes, we did interview one of the cast members and we will get to her following some prefatory remarks.)
As OK Magazine put it, "the [final] episode fizzled into nothing more than another screaming match between the two ladies."
Furthermore, "Mob Wives vet Renee Graziano revealed that she purposely kept DiDonato from confronting Guercio in an attempt to keep the feuding pair from ruining the party she held to celebrate renewing her faith..."I kept telling her, ‘Don’t get up! This is my party. It’s a happy thing,'” Graziano recalled. “I tried to control it as much as I possibly could. I was trying to do the right thing in a situation that could have gone horribly wrong.”
Nice try, but we call bullshit.
Renee fanned the flames as aggressively as possible for the entire season, then used her phony baptism to distance herself from the monster she herself had created. We say this with no fear of contradiction.
Who staffs the show, sets the direction of the story lines and handles the editing? What is her last name? (Hint: Renee refers to this person as God.)
Why was the "baptism" juxtaposed à la The Godfather with the scene in which Natalie Guercio's fate was supposedly sealed?
We've been saying all along that the point of this season was to repair Renee's image by filling the show with as many Natalie Guercio-haters as possible. We're certain the "strategic" thinking went: destroy at all costs Natalie Guercio who somehow got so deeply under Renee's skin, Renee was forced to reveal her unflattering lunatic side during the infamous Las Vegas episode from season four.
Listen to the first reunion episode where Renee praises Karen Gravano for her loyalty, pegging it at 100 percent, when everyone else turned against her (meaning they were friendly with Natalie Guercio). Instead of trying to figure out why everyone turned against her, she got God to use an entire season of a reality show to get revenge.
So now, in true Renee fashion, Renee is actually trying to distance both herself and the show from ... the show, which makes sense to no one with a brain.
What happens when you base an entire season on petty vindictiveness, promise a payoff never delivered, and even leave a few tantalizing yet completely unnecessary loose ends? By loose ends we refer to whatever was going on between Drita D'Avanzo and Carla Facciolo, as an example. Something about talking to blogs? Of course it seemed Karen Gravano had her version of an answer -- the "elephant in the room" -- but the editor snipped it out.
"When did you make up with Renee?" Drita asks Carla, to which Renee answers, "We saw each other in the nail salon--I, honestly, I saw her and I was like--how are--"... Yes. Completely believable answer. But that is beside our larger point: Drita asked Carla, so why did Renee answer?
Drita's ice-cold, perfectly intoned retort, "Well then you made peace with everyone in your life Renee," is the one story line we'd truly like to hear more about.
We may be able to explain some of the unease between Drita and Carla (and Drita and Karen).
Longtime viewers of the show will recall that Ramona Rizzo, Carla and Karen left the show over money issues. Originally, Drita had joined with them. In other words, all four cast members had agreed to stand together and walk. No more money, no more cast.
But Drita changed her mind and broke the solidarity at the last moment, after the other three had walked... This is what we've heard.
Anyway, the bottom line of all this, the lack of an ending, etc., is that there is said to be some serious backstage concern about the fate of a sixth season for Mob Wives.
"Supposedly Jennifer Graziano knows she screwed up big time. They are worried if there will be a season six," one source told us.
So of course Renee is out there in full damage-control mode, blaming all the show's problems on the two girls from Philly. All that stuff between the two Natalies had gotten out of control! And it's not gonna happen again! Right, Renee... and the intertwining of the scenes of your baptism and Drita hearing a certain tape recording were just a chance of fate and not a deliberate nod to the Godfather....
Right about now we'd have said that in our opinion BOTH Natalies had been used by the producers of the VH1 reality show that is sort of about the mob, but not really at all about the mob. We would've said that -- but Natalie DiDonato wouldn't agree with us.
The editing process has long been the bane of reality stars and we've always wondered about storylines -- perhaps even entire people -- that we've heard were cut from the show.
We have now learned, following an exclusive interview with Natalie DiDonato, that viewers did indeed miss a key development that occurred during filming that would've helped to better define DiDonato's motive for the intense anger she displayed during season five's reunion against Natalie Guercio.
Guercio referenced a horrific episode from DiDonato's past: when she was a child her stepfather sexually assaulted her, she told us.
DiDonato's experience on "Mob Wives" was generally positive nevertheless and she said she is quite pleased with how things turned out.
"I accomplished everything I wanted to," she said.
DiDonato started talking with Jennifer Graziano about appearing on Mob Wives last May.
"They were looking for a new girl," she said. "New blood."
"None of the stuff with Natalie Guercio was brought up until we started filming."
Did they choose her specifically because they knew she'd put Guercio immediately on the defensive? Not really, she replied.
"They liked me for who I was. They knew I didn't like the girl and that I wouldn't get along with her but when we started filming in the beginning it was more about my life, what I did for a living, who I was.
"The other stuff gradually started working itself into the story line."
DiDonato expressed definite interest in appearing in season six if there is one.
The feud between the two Natalies doesn't appear to have ended yet, either.
"She keeps trying to humiliate me," DiDonato said of Natalie G. "She works with a bunch of trolls. They put my address on social media. I don't give them a reaction because it is beneath me."
Nat. D. says one of her reasons for getting on the show was to clear the name of a friend of 15 years. Well, two friends, actually, but only one was really the show's focus.
"Natalie ratted on two friends of mine. Her reaction to my comment - she blew her top. So then I proceeded to carry on the way I did."
But the fact of the matter is: we, the viewers, missed quite a lot of background that ended up on the cutting-room floor, as Nat D. informed us.
Natalie G. found out about something that happened to Natalie D. at a young age involving her stepfather -- and brought it up on the show, which made Natalie DiDonato furious -- and probably left viewers a bit befuddled regarding the intensity of her anger.
"When I was a little girl, I went through a sexual assault case and Natalie brought this up during filming," DiDonato says.
"Natalie harassed me about it on the show. They cut it out -- they thought it was too awful to air."
Nat D. offered a sketch of her history with her stepfather, now serving a 30-year prison sentence.
"My stepfather blew my car up. Literally. It exploded minutes after I got out. There was dynamite found under the car."
Her stepfather, while in prison for earlier crimes, even tried to put a contract out on her life, she said. There were no takers. In fact it appears some Philly mobsters who heard about this somehow got word to the police. Immediately.
In addition to his murder plot and the dynamite, the stepfather also tried to shoot her. He stuck a loaded gun in her face. "He pulled the trigger but the gun misfired," DiDonato said.
But the assault at age 12 -- it was not rape, but close to it, Natalie said -- was probably the most devastating experience of her life. In fact, she decided it would be easier to keep it all under wraps. Her stepfather encouraged that thinking. "He threatened to murder my mother," DiDonato recalled. "I just decided to forgive and forget."
Natalie said that she spent most of her life looking over her shoulder on the verge of a nervous breakdown, as a result. Then eventually, she was able to find the inner strength to pull herself together.
"You can be a victim or a survivor," Natalie said. "I am not bitter. I don't say: Why me? I roll with the punches."
This, she said, is the first time she has told her story, and it would seem she is doing so for cathartic reasons.
She talks about how she never let that episode destroy her. She established herself in the real estate business, started working at one of the big six firms in Philadelphia. When she reached the age 20, Natalie was earning a nearly six-figure income.
Then, she was promoted. "I made management when I was 21," she said.
But something else happened to her that same year that brought back that awful incident from her childhood.
One evening, returning home following after-work drinks with friends, Natalie fell asleep on the couch in her home. She was abruptly awakened by her stepfather, who was on top of her aggressively trying to pick up where he had left off some 10 years prior. He'd been living in a halfway house at the time, and would end up back in prison.
His efforts had been fueled by a prefatory injection of cocaine into his neck vein, Natalie recalled.
"I got him off of me. Now I was going to keep everything a secret since I was 14. I never thought it'd happen again."
Then, last year shortly before filming began for Mob Wives "I get a phone call from a lieutenant," Natalie said.
This is how she learned her stepfather been seeking to hire a contract killer to take care of her for $5,000.
"He's demented, he's sick."
So Natalie Guercio, whether she knows it or not, is ripping open an old painful wound, as DiDonato tells it.
"Now I have to deal with people telling me that I made this up because my mother and me wanted him out of the house and we couldn't think of a way to do it. I would not make up a horrific story like that."
"This girl is a monster. This girl is a sick person."
The subject came up during the reunion -- and was hacked off by editors, according to Natalie D.
"Karen said to me: You know what, Natalie, you're a better person than me. Then Karen went off on her."
"There are lines you should never cross. I just said, Fuck it."
"The stage was like ice - I was in heels for eight hours and my feet were so swollen. But if I took my shoes off the security guys would know I was gunning for her.
"She tried to get out any which way. She was adamant about keeping me off the reunion show."
Natalie G. also targeted that ex-boyfriend, the one she supposedly was talking to on the tape recording, Natalie D. told us.
"She called his PO -- again. She tried to get him locked up. She is mentally warped. He is a sensible guy who wants nothing to do with her. He never touched her, either.
"If that was a bruise on her face it was makeup. My friend didn't do that to her."
"He has a family, a child. He had to file a restraining order against her. He didn't even want me to play the tape recording when I got on Mob Wives, but I told him to knock it off," she laughed.
What's important to her now, she said, was getting her story out.
"I can finally talk about it and not have a nervous breakdown."
As for the whole escalating feud between the two of them, Natalie D. said: "I only asked her to tell the truth.
"She made it so much bigger than what it was. Who gives a shit if you ratted on the guy, just tell the truth. She has an excuse for anything she does."
DiDonato has a lot on her plate these days. She's been making appearances at parties/events at nightclubs as far away as Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
At the same time, she has managed to build a thriving business managing deejays. She has several in her stable and is always seeking to sign on some more. Her website is still under construction but we will post it when it debuts.
Charity work is a major part of her life. She spent last Thanksgiving and Christmas with her friends manning soup kitchens. On Thanksgiving Day alone, she and her friends fed more than 300 of South Philadelphia's indigent.
One upcoming event she's announced is the NatDGivesBack & Mercedes-Benz of Cherry Hill: Lisa Monterosso Charity Gala, which will take place on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 8:00 PM and Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 12:00 AM (EDT) in Cherry Hill, NJ.
According to the website: "Join NatDGivesBack & Mercedes-Benz of Cherry Hill as they help raise awareness, and funds for Lisa Monterosso. Lisa was originally diagnosed with Cervical Cancer in 2009. After under going the procedure of a hysterectomy, she was cancer free for 5 years. Unfortunately, upon a visit to the ER in March of 2014, she was presented with the devastating news, that the cancer came back. Now a year later, Lisa is still one up in the fight against Cancer, but now she needs more support, and help. As the costs are tallying up for treatments, medications, and day to day expenses, she is unable to work due to medical leave.
"So by the end of the night, we hope to raise enough money for the next 6 months of expenses (Treatments, Medications, & Living Expenses) for Lisa Fight Against Cancer.
"Award Winning Event Design and Production Company "EVENT FX" will be the reason you are taken back in astonishment, as soon as you come through the door. They will be transforming the dealership into a chic, upscale, and glamorous oasis lounge setting.
"Mercedes-Benz Smart Car & A Live Painting by @mspassionart will be AUCTIONED off."
As for members of Mob Wives, Natalie Said she's invited Renee and Karen, so far.
We wonder if Renee will make an appearance.
Since episode one, the major dynamic of the entire season was proclaimed loud and clear: this year it's all about the bitch called pay back that ultimately took the form of an implied major confrontation between Natalie Guercio and Natalie DiDonato.
But the big fistfight or shootout or whatever we all expected never happened. (Nor did we relish the thought of it. We don't like the idea of two women fighting.... we want women to act, well, womanly, not like dudes...And, yes, we did interview one of the cast members and we will get to her following some prefatory remarks.)
As OK Magazine put it, "the [final] episode fizzled into nothing more than another screaming match between the two ladies."
Furthermore, "Mob Wives vet Renee Graziano revealed that she purposely kept DiDonato from confronting Guercio in an attempt to keep the feuding pair from ruining the party she held to celebrate renewing her faith..."I kept telling her, ‘Don’t get up! This is my party. It’s a happy thing,'” Graziano recalled. “I tried to control it as much as I possibly could. I was trying to do the right thing in a situation that could have gone horribly wrong.”
Nice try, but we call bullshit.
Renee fanned the flames as aggressively as possible for the entire season, then used her phony baptism to distance herself from the monster she herself had created. We say this with no fear of contradiction.
Who staffs the show, sets the direction of the story lines and handles the editing? What is her last name? (Hint: Renee refers to this person as God.)
Why was the "baptism" juxtaposed à la The Godfather with the scene in which Natalie Guercio's fate was supposedly sealed?
We've been saying all along that the point of this season was to repair Renee's image by filling the show with as many Natalie Guercio-haters as possible. We're certain the "strategic" thinking went: destroy at all costs Natalie Guercio who somehow got so deeply under Renee's skin, Renee was forced to reveal her unflattering lunatic side during the infamous Las Vegas episode from season four.
Listen to the first reunion episode where Renee praises Karen Gravano for her loyalty, pegging it at 100 percent, when everyone else turned against her (meaning they were friendly with Natalie Guercio). Instead of trying to figure out why everyone turned against her, she got God to use an entire season of a reality show to get revenge.
So now, in true Renee fashion, Renee is actually trying to distance both herself and the show from ... the show, which makes sense to no one with a brain.
What happens when you base an entire season on petty vindictiveness, promise a payoff never delivered, and even leave a few tantalizing yet completely unnecessary loose ends? By loose ends we refer to whatever was going on between Drita D'Avanzo and Carla Facciolo, as an example. Something about talking to blogs? Of course it seemed Karen Gravano had her version of an answer -- the "elephant in the room" -- but the editor snipped it out.
"When did you make up with Renee?" Drita asks Carla, to which Renee answers, "We saw each other in the nail salon--I, honestly, I saw her and I was like--how are--"... Yes. Completely believable answer. But that is beside our larger point: Drita asked Carla, so why did Renee answer?
Drita's ice-cold, perfectly intoned retort, "Well then you made peace with everyone in your life Renee," is the one story line we'd truly like to hear more about.
We may be able to explain some of the unease between Drita and Carla (and Drita and Karen).
Longtime viewers of the show will recall that Ramona Rizzo, Carla and Karen left the show over money issues. Originally, Drita had joined with them. In other words, all four cast members had agreed to stand together and walk. No more money, no more cast.
But Drita changed her mind and broke the solidarity at the last moment, after the other three had walked... This is what we've heard.
Anyway, the bottom line of all this, the lack of an ending, etc., is that there is said to be some serious backstage concern about the fate of a sixth season for Mob Wives.
"Supposedly Jennifer Graziano knows she screwed up big time. They are worried if there will be a season six," one source told us.
So of course Renee is out there in full damage-control mode, blaming all the show's problems on the two girls from Philly. All that stuff between the two Natalies had gotten out of control! And it's not gonna happen again! Right, Renee... and the intertwining of the scenes of your baptism and Drita hearing a certain tape recording were just a chance of fate and not a deliberate nod to the Godfather....
Right about now we'd have said that in our opinion BOTH Natalies had been used by the producers of the VH1 reality show that is sort of about the mob, but not really at all about the mob. We would've said that -- but Natalie DiDonato wouldn't agree with us.
The editing process has long been the bane of reality stars and we've always wondered about storylines -- perhaps even entire people -- that we've heard were cut from the show.
We have now learned, following an exclusive interview with Natalie DiDonato, that viewers did indeed miss a key development that occurred during filming that would've helped to better define DiDonato's motive for the intense anger she displayed during season five's reunion against Natalie Guercio.
Natalie DiDonato |
Guercio referenced a horrific episode from DiDonato's past: when she was a child her stepfather sexually assaulted her, she told us.
DiDonato's experience on "Mob Wives" was generally positive nevertheless and she said she is quite pleased with how things turned out.
"I accomplished everything I wanted to," she said.
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DiDonato started talking with Jennifer Graziano about appearing on Mob Wives last May.
"They were looking for a new girl," she said. "New blood."
"None of the stuff with Natalie Guercio was brought up until we started filming."
Did they choose her specifically because they knew she'd put Guercio immediately on the defensive? Not really, she replied.
"They liked me for who I was. They knew I didn't like the girl and that I wouldn't get along with her but when we started filming in the beginning it was more about my life, what I did for a living, who I was.
"The other stuff gradually started working itself into the story line."
DiDonato expressed definite interest in appearing in season six if there is one.
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The feud between the two Natalies doesn't appear to have ended yet, either.
"She keeps trying to humiliate me," DiDonato said of Natalie G. "She works with a bunch of trolls. They put my address on social media. I don't give them a reaction because it is beneath me."
Nat. D. says one of her reasons for getting on the show was to clear the name of a friend of 15 years. Well, two friends, actually, but only one was really the show's focus.
"Natalie ratted on two friends of mine. Her reaction to my comment - she blew her top. So then I proceeded to carry on the way I did."
But the fact of the matter is: we, the viewers, missed quite a lot of background that ended up on the cutting-room floor, as Nat D. informed us.
Natalie G. found out about something that happened to Natalie D. at a young age involving her stepfather -- and brought it up on the show, which made Natalie DiDonato furious -- and probably left viewers a bit befuddled regarding the intensity of her anger.
"When I was a little girl, I went through a sexual assault case and Natalie brought this up during filming," DiDonato says.
"Natalie harassed me about it on the show. They cut it out -- they thought it was too awful to air."
Nat D. offered a sketch of her history with her stepfather, now serving a 30-year prison sentence.
"My stepfather blew my car up. Literally. It exploded minutes after I got out. There was dynamite found under the car."
Her stepfather, while in prison for earlier crimes, even tried to put a contract out on her life, she said. There were no takers. In fact it appears some Philly mobsters who heard about this somehow got word to the police. Immediately.
In addition to his murder plot and the dynamite, the stepfather also tried to shoot her. He stuck a loaded gun in her face. "He pulled the trigger but the gun misfired," DiDonato said.
But the assault at age 12 -- it was not rape, but close to it, Natalie said -- was probably the most devastating experience of her life. In fact, she decided it would be easier to keep it all under wraps. Her stepfather encouraged that thinking. "He threatened to murder my mother," DiDonato recalled. "I just decided to forgive and forget."
Natalie said that she spent most of her life looking over her shoulder on the verge of a nervous breakdown, as a result. Then eventually, she was able to find the inner strength to pull herself together.
"You can be a victim or a survivor," Natalie said. "I am not bitter. I don't say: Why me? I roll with the punches."
This, she said, is the first time she has told her story, and it would seem she is doing so for cathartic reasons.
She talks about how she never let that episode destroy her. She established herself in the real estate business, started working at one of the big six firms in Philadelphia. When she reached the age 20, Natalie was earning a nearly six-figure income.
Then, she was promoted. "I made management when I was 21," she said.
But something else happened to her that same year that brought back that awful incident from her childhood.
One evening, returning home following after-work drinks with friends, Natalie fell asleep on the couch in her home. She was abruptly awakened by her stepfather, who was on top of her aggressively trying to pick up where he had left off some 10 years prior. He'd been living in a halfway house at the time, and would end up back in prison.
His efforts had been fueled by a prefatory injection of cocaine into his neck vein, Natalie recalled.
"I got him off of me. Now I was going to keep everything a secret since I was 14. I never thought it'd happen again."
Then, last year shortly before filming began for Mob Wives "I get a phone call from a lieutenant," Natalie said.
This is how she learned her stepfather been seeking to hire a contract killer to take care of her for $5,000.
"He's demented, he's sick."
So Natalie Guercio, whether she knows it or not, is ripping open an old painful wound, as DiDonato tells it.
"Now I have to deal with people telling me that I made this up because my mother and me wanted him out of the house and we couldn't think of a way to do it. I would not make up a horrific story like that."
"This girl is a monster. This girl is a sick person."
The subject came up during the reunion -- and was hacked off by editors, according to Natalie D.
"Karen said to me: You know what, Natalie, you're a better person than me. Then Karen went off on her."
"There are lines you should never cross. I just said, Fuck it."
"The stage was like ice - I was in heels for eight hours and my feet were so swollen. But if I took my shoes off the security guys would know I was gunning for her.
"She tried to get out any which way. She was adamant about keeping me off the reunion show."
Natalie G. also targeted that ex-boyfriend, the one she supposedly was talking to on the tape recording, Natalie D. told us.
"She called his PO -- again. She tried to get him locked up. She is mentally warped. He is a sensible guy who wants nothing to do with her. He never touched her, either.
"If that was a bruise on her face it was makeup. My friend didn't do that to her."
"He has a family, a child. He had to file a restraining order against her. He didn't even want me to play the tape recording when I got on Mob Wives, but I told him to knock it off," she laughed.
What's important to her now, she said, was getting her story out.
"I can finally talk about it and not have a nervous breakdown."
As for the whole escalating feud between the two of them, Natalie D. said: "I only asked her to tell the truth.
"She made it so much bigger than what it was. Who gives a shit if you ratted on the guy, just tell the truth. She has an excuse for anything she does."
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DiDonato has a lot on her plate these days. She's been making appearances at parties/events at nightclubs as far away as Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
At the same time, she has managed to build a thriving business managing deejays. She has several in her stable and is always seeking to sign on some more. Her website is still under construction but we will post it when it debuts.
Charity work is a major part of her life. She spent last Thanksgiving and Christmas with her friends manning soup kitchens. On Thanksgiving Day alone, she and her friends fed more than 300 of South Philadelphia's indigent.
One upcoming event she's announced is the NatDGivesBack & Mercedes-Benz of Cherry Hill: Lisa Monterosso Charity Gala, which will take place on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 8:00 PM and Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 12:00 AM (EDT) in Cherry Hill, NJ.
According to the website: "Join NatDGivesBack & Mercedes-Benz of Cherry Hill as they help raise awareness, and funds for Lisa Monterosso. Lisa was originally diagnosed with Cervical Cancer in 2009. After under going the procedure of a hysterectomy, she was cancer free for 5 years. Unfortunately, upon a visit to the ER in March of 2014, she was presented with the devastating news, that the cancer came back. Now a year later, Lisa is still one up in the fight against Cancer, but now she needs more support, and help. As the costs are tallying up for treatments, medications, and day to day expenses, she is unable to work due to medical leave.
"So by the end of the night, we hope to raise enough money for the next 6 months of expenses (Treatments, Medications, & Living Expenses) for Lisa Fight Against Cancer.
"Award Winning Event Design and Production Company "EVENT FX" will be the reason you are taken back in astonishment, as soon as you come through the door. They will be transforming the dealership into a chic, upscale, and glamorous oasis lounge setting.
"Mercedes-Benz Smart Car & A Live Painting by @mspassionart will be AUCTIONED off."
As for members of Mob Wives, Natalie Said she's invited Renee and Karen, so far.
We wonder if Renee will make an appearance.
IDK what to think! IDK whether or not it is true. But why would she want someone to believe her story but says Natalie Guercio is lying about hers? Her's really sounds far fetch. Not saying she's lying but, "IM TELLING THE TRUTH BUT NATALIE GUERCIO IS A LIAR!" REALLY,
ReplyDeleteconsidering she lied her way on the show by saying shes related to frankie flowers which proved false, Id say take with a grain of salt...
ReplyDeleteIronically I started talking to Natalie about the Frankie Flowers story. I got her side while waiting for a source to call me. The source never called for some reason so I never wrote another word about it. But I probably know a lot more about this story than most people.
ReplyDeleteYou've got to remember what Natalie said in the story was brought up on the show during filming. She mentions the reunion specifically....
ReplyDeleteThis Didinato has only lied all season! Right down to being relayed to Frankie Flowers. Of course she's lying again. The best way to deflect is to blame others. And that's just what she did. Your an intelligent man Ed. Hope you don't believe her crap.
ReplyDeleteEd come on! Lol
ReplyDeleteEd what? Am I too cryptic for you? Or is that your response to what I'm implying?
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you in part. I'm intelligent.
ReplyDeleteI.v watched the show to see how low they could go safe to say the writers are lost here and the show has ran its course. There a disgrace with this democrat loving bullshit if u think this shits excepted in either race your kidding your selves my parents would never except that you were told stau with ur own period hard enough to deal with ur own let alone a racial relationship unless ur a athlete then its all good till the money runs out. Sorry but true. Philly
ReplyDeleteNat D, Nat G. They sound like a bunch of pests, maybe they need to be "Raided".....
ReplyDeleteNatalie DiDonato's step-father was proven innocent when he was tried in court for allegations of sexual abuse committed against her. If you lived in Philadelphia, you would know how Natalie DiDonato works. She doesn't behave ethically towards others because she simply doesn't care. The fact that she deceives people for her own benefit is a major red flag. You're a professional journalist and care immensely about presenting work that is honest and dignified. Natalie DiDonato is hated by South Philly because she all she does is wreak chaos in other people's lives. I wish you had known the truth about her. The people she victimizes is an ongoing aspect of her life. Ask her victims what she does to them. The question is, do you believe in everything she says? FYI: Nobody in Philly believes her because they've witnessed firsthand how she behaves towards others.
ReplyDeleteDo you communicate with his family?
ReplyDeleteyeah it was even on the news here, the family saying they aint related to her lol, cant get more clearer, and funny she calls people rats but a few weeks ago shes taking pics with hugging john alite
ReplyDeleteThat's true. She doesn't know what she's talking about.
ReplyDeleteHere's the article providing proof that Nat D. is not related to Frank D'Alfonso's family. http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/28133271/claims
ReplyDeleteListen to the audio recordings of a South Philly radio station, Vascom Media Group. The co-hosts know more about Nat D. than you do because they live in South Philly. Click on "videos" to listen to the show recordings: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vascom-web-radio. You're much better off writing about mob wives from Staten Island than mob wives from Philly.
ReplyDeleteAre you pro Nat. G?
ReplyDeleteEd, I usually enjoy reading your Blog but I have to say this one takes the cake.. I don't know how u conducted this interview but She took you for a ride into her Delusional spin of a life. If you came to Philly to do this interview and spoke to some of her neighbors u would have learned that this Family is a pimple in the area of 11th and Durfor, constant calls to the police and harassment to anyone who speaks out against her. She will even goto your place of employment to complain and threaten to ruin business if u speak out against her, even go as far as sending her cronies to start a fight, as seen on twitter where one threatens a family member of the D'Alfonso's life by setting home on fire killing all in household. As for the Rape allegations towards her step father he was proven innocent and took them to civil court where he won a judgement against her and her mother. This individual will be released soon and will be coming back to clear this his name HENCE the recent placing of HOUSE FOR SALE they want to get out of DODGE. She has alot of claims 1- she is a boxer lmao she couldnt fight her way out of a paper bag. 2-Real estate agent their is no licence on record for this 3-Model she has only 2 shoots both from Mobwives affliation 4- Related to Mr. Frank "Frankie Flowers" D'Alfonso to which the family publicly came out and DENIED and the Name was removed from the show. I feel sorry that u even wasted your time doing this Interview since NOTHING YOU WERE TOLD IS TRUE. Natalie G was not the one who first brought up the alleged rape it was a viewer/S.Philly resident who know of the story and called her out on her lie. This Family is a joke in S.Philly and MANY in the AREA can not wait for them to remove themselves from the area. with that I will end and sign off as Anonymous since I do not want any of her CRONIES OR HERSELF coming to me and starting trouble...I DO NOT LOOK GOOD IN ORANGE NOR STRIPES
ReplyDeleteThe family chose not to speak with me. I didn't do a story on Natalie's claims. I am aware of the Fox story. I don't mention it here.
ReplyDeleteWhat is your source for this?
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ReplyDeleteWhat does that have to do with anything?
ReplyDeleteEd, why was my first post deleted?
ReplyDeleteEd, I usually enjoy reading your Blog but I have to say this one takes the cake.. I don't know how u conducted this interview but She took you for a ride into her Delusional spin of a life. If you came to Philly to do this interview and spoke to some of her neighbors u would have learned that this Family is a pimple in the area of 11th and Durfor, constant calls to the police and harassment to anyone who speaks out against her. She will even goto your place of employment to complain and threaten to ruin business if u speak out against her, even go as far as sending her cronies to start a fight, as seen on twitter where one threatens a family member of the D'Alfonso's life by setting home on fire killing all in household. As for the Rape allegations towards her step father he was proven innocent and took them to civil court where he won a judgement against her and her mother. This individual will be released soon and will be coming back to clear this his name HENCE the recent placing of HOUSE FOR SALE they want to get out of DODGE. She has alot of claims 1- she is a boxer lmao she couldnt fight her way out of a paper bag. 2-Real estate agent their is no licence on record for this 3-Model she has only 2 shoots both from Mobwives affliation 4- Related to Mr. Frank "Frankie Flowers" D'Alfonso to which the family publicly came out and DENIED and the Name was removed from the show. I feel sorry that u even wasted your time doing this Interview since NOTHING YOU WERE TOLD IS TRUE. Natalie G was not the one who first brought up the alleged rape it was a viewer/S.Philly resident who know of the story and called her out on her lie. This Family is a joke in S.Philly and MANY in the AREA can not wait for them to remove themselves from the area. with that I will end and sign off as Anonymous since I do not want any of her CRONIES OR HERSELF coming to me and starting trouble...I DO NOT LOOK GOOD IN ORANGE NOR STRIPES
But you've indicated in a past post that you are a fan of hers. So you never liked her?
ReplyDeleteIs Natalie on the show? Or is it people talking about her? No, I don't believe geography necessarily means anything. Talking to the actual people who tell you far more than you actually use in the story is quite informative. I have made it no secret that Natalie Guercio was one of my favorites. I wrote a big story about Frankie Flowers, focusing on the fact that he was hit by the man who inherited the position of acting boss of all of Philadelphia.
ReplyDeleteNatalie Guercio should be very happy that I am the one Nat D came to with her story. Because believe me she said FAR MORE than I actually used. I kept a tight focus and didn't think it necessary or proper to go into what "all of Philly" knows about Nat G. And London too......
She constantly said she was a cousin of Frankie Flowers which made no sense because she would have to be really old to be a cousin of his. There is no relation. The fact that she fed you a bunch of lies and doesn't have proof to back it up makes me feel sorry for you. No journalist deserves to be treated like a gossip columnist. If you talk to people who live in Philly (like I do) you would learn the truth about Nat. D. The D'Alfonso family only followed the advice of their attorney. That's why you didn't get a response from them. Nat. D. gave you information about herself because she is merely ambitious. Didn't you sense that about her? It's clear as the blue sky!
ReplyDeleteLOL! You noticed I deleted your comment, but you didn't acknowledge, or provide an answer, to what I wrote:
ReplyDelete"Natalie DiDonato's step-father was proven innocent when he was tried in court for allegations of sexual abuse committed against her."
What is your source for this? Don't tell me "all of Philly knows this." Also don't tell me to ask her neighbors. WTF do they know goes on inside a private residence.
I think it is pretty sick and twisted to think she invented this story -- about being sexually assaulted by her stepfather who you say is getting out soon -- I was told he's serving 30 years.... Maybe you're him.....
I don't think I have hidden my position... LOL!!!!! Just read one of the half-million stories I wrote and what I wrote..... I asked Nat G for an interview several times.....
ReplyDeleteIf you want the source, then look into the court documents or talk to her stepfather. Ask for her stepfather's name. If you haven't done that already, then you should have done so.
ReplyDeleteSo you don't really care about the show or sympathize with any of the cast members? You just like to watch people destroy eachother for your own amusement? If so, then you are like most most of the fans of the show. Nothing unhealthy about that.
ReplyDeleteShe never gave it to you?
ReplyDeleteAll the broads on this show are rats. They sold out their heritage for a couple of dollars. They should have some dignity and get real jobs instead of acting like tramps.
ReplyDeletePennsylvania unified judicial system website docket number CP-51-CR-12062612001, COUNTY Philadelphia DOCKET Criminal page 16 labeled D24 D25 D 26 DISMISSED EXONERATED
ReplyDeletehttps://ujsportal.pacourts.us/ Docket sheets, hit criminal courts, search docket# CP-51-CR-1206264-2001 if that don't work than do it by name- Richard Disco , county- Philadelphia, docket type- criminal case status-closed hit search you will find many cases it should be 3rd one down.
ReplyDeleteCould.nt agree more and young ladies growing up watch this show not realizing its rehearsed drama and think thats the way to act in real life get drunk and scew anything that comes along agree old school total disgrace ( yet here we are talking about it giving it more life at least they got paid. Lol Philly
ReplyDeleteVery interesting and a side that we weren't shown giving more insight into the goings
ReplyDeleteon. As interesting as the show is, and the back stories, some of these thick headed people that follow it take this shit too far. From what I've seen here, you'd this this Nat G pays these "women" to attack and defame. Honestly, the shows been over for a week now, and these broads with no lives (or conscience) are still going hot and heavy being Guercios attack dogs. Pathetic, and I'm a fan of Nag G, but hot damn, these people make me want to rethink it. None of these "ladies" are innocent, and they all have had lives off screen. I feel bad for Nat DiDonato, and the shot shes had to endure from these Twitter warriors. They've done digging and these couch potatoes think they have the legalese to know what's what. None of these "people" have had the opportunity to speak to her. I do believe she used the D'Alfonso name to help pad her creditals for the show, for I'm seen tweets, interviews before and after the beginning of the show stating she was "Frankie Flowers" cousin. Her varying account how she's related blood or marriage are very suspect. Regardless, there has been no relation named for Ms. Guercio, and honestly, at this point in the fame, it's moot. There is a clan of cattiness on Twitter that has made it some weird and disturbing mission to tear Ms. Didonato down, at whatever cost. I've seen them post the address where she lives, nudes that were taken and posted, harassed her ex-boyfriend. They've posted Karen Gravano's phone number, harassed a girl who they believe is Karen's boyfriend, "real" girlfriend. taunt and harass Love Majewski, call Renee a junkie, a lesbian. Dug up a blog with supposed court transcripts of Jenn Graziano saying no one could take care of her child while she served time because they're all racist, and her son is biracial. Harass Carla after she attended a charity event for Wounded Warriors for having an affair with Mikey "Scars". They have no boundaries or lives from what I've seen. I'd hope at some point Ms. Guercio would address this craziness from these loony toons, because it's out of control and they're a laughing stock. Great job with the article and look forward to your posts. I'd love to know more about Ms. Didonato (and not from these Twitter clowns), I hope you do a follow up piece or two.
Ed, your really going back n forth with the women posting comments on here? You must be bored buddy lol, listen to me, these young girls don't know what it's really about, just to be on the show tells you that, look at the graziano's, didn't the father get shelved because of this non sense? It's all BS!! what I can tell u is this, the one girl who said she's related to Frankie flowers is defnitley lying, she's not related in any way, blood, marriage ect, I know the family, if meeting someone for the first time starts off with a lie like she did by saying that to get on the show they could never be believable after that, from that time forward it's about picking n choosing what might be true n what might not, who has time to even want to listen to them? On another note, when are you posting part two of that mob doc?
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't me who posted that comment, someone else did. In case you didn't notice, I don't shout or scream to get a point across. The commentator got bits of information mixed up. Natalie DiDonato's step father is not in prison. Her biological father is a drug addict and is incarcerated, soon to be released. She and her family are trying to leave the neighborhood because they had him incarcerated based on false charges. He's not a violent person, just a drug addict. You have to provide credible, indisputable and authentic sources in the form of citations for your blog posts if you want people's respect. I detest hearsay. It's partly because I have a BS in Criminology and Criminal Justice, worked in the Criminal Justice System as a Research Analyst and now work as a paralegal in Family Law where some clients are survivors of abuse or have children who are survivors of abuse. Evidence is really important to me. That's why I suggested you look into court records or speak to neighbors who have a long history with Natalie DiDonato. There was one neighbor of Natalie DiDonato who called the radio show I mentioned in a previous comment last weekend. She said the truth about about her family and it wasn't pretty. There's a such thing as caller ID, so co-hosts know where the callers are from.
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