On Wednesday night's episode of VH1's hit reality TV series "Mob Wives," Drita D'Avanzo washed her hands of all the drama with her former friends but forged a new bond with newcomer Brittany Fogarty, Renee Graziano confronted the ghosts in her closet (literally), and Angela "Big Ang" Raiola's past mistakes came back to haunt her.
Drita D'Avanzo
After returning from Carla Facciolo's girls' trip to the Hamptons, D'Avanzo's former friend Karen Gravano reached out to her so they could talk out their problems. Gravano heard that D'Avanzo was calling her a "fake" and a "phony" behind her back because Gravano mended her friendships with Graziano and Facciolo, so she decided to confront D'Avanzo about it face-to-face. The women met at a local park and the meeting quickly escalated and D'Avanzo threatened to fight Gravano, and Gravano told her that she didn't want to fight because she considered D'Avanzo a friend. "I don't fight with my friends, I don't threaten my friends. This is not friendship," D'Avanzo told Gravano before she walked away. "We can be civil and sit in each other's company and smile, but we're not friends," Gravano said.
Renee Graziano
Graziano's son A.J. Pagan has been with his girlfriend Andrea for quite some time, and Graziano advised her son to take the next step in their relationship because Graziano said Andrea is a "stand-up girl." Graziano talked about engagement and wedding plans for the two in the near future and asked them to move into her home with her. Andrea agreed to move in, but only if Graziano addressed the issue of a possible ghost in her home. Graziano invited psychic medium Joanne into her home, and Joanne told her that Graziano's grandmother's spirit is in her home, and so is the spirit of a little girl. Joanne said that the spirits mean no harm and left Graziano with one piece of advice. "Don't be afraid of the dead, be afraid of the living," Joanne told Graziano.
Angela "Big Ang" Raiola
Raiola plead guilty to a felony when she was caught selling drugs to a friend who turned out to be a "rat" 14 years ago. She received six months on house arrest and has since moved on from her criminal past, but it came back to haunt her when the government caught wind of her popular Staten Island bar, The Drunken Monkey. As a convicted felon, Raiola is not allowed to hold a liquor license, so she was forced to shut her bar down. Since Raiola depends on the bar business to make a living, she met with the lawyer who represented her in the case to discuss how she could get her constitutional rights back. Her lawyer told her the only way she would be allowed to have a liquor license again is if she has her federal conviction expunged, but he said the chances of that, "On a scale of one to 10 is one little notch above zero." "You're gonna have to live with this," he added.
Brittany Fogarty
Once she returned from Facciolo's girls' trip, Raiola invited newcomer Fogarty to her home and introduced her to D'Avanzo. The women hit it off and even hit the gym together, and Fogarty opened up to D'Avanzo about growing up without her father around. Fogarty's father, John Fogarty, worked in the mafia under Sammy "The Bull" Gravano (Karen Gravano's father), and he was sentenced to prison when she was just 8 months old. D'Avanzo sympathized with Fogarty because her daughters grew up the same way. "It makes me really upset cause that's how Aleeah and Giselle are gonna feel when they're her age, their first memory of seeing their dad was in a visiting room," D'Avanzo said in her on-camera interview, and Fogarty said she appreciated that D'Avanzo has welcomed her into her circle. "It's nice to be back in Staten Island around people who understand what me and my family have been through," Fogarty said in her on-camera interview.
Watch a clip from the episode below.
