The drama boiled over during last night's episode of VH1's "Mob Wives." Even though the women aren't getting along, Angela "Big Ang" Raiola still invited them all to her birthday party, where Marissa Jade confronted Drita D'Avanzo and Karen Gravano flew off the handle when one of Raiola's guests called Gravano's father a "rat."
Drita D'Avanzo
Even though she doesn't have the blessing of her husband Lee, D'Avanzo is still moving forward with her plans of writing a book about her life. She met with a literary agent and pitched her story, of a girl who grew up in the projects and was training to become a soccer star but fell in love with a "street guy" and chose the wrong path instead. Her agent agreed to take her on and asked to read some of the stories D'Avanzo has written so far.
Karen Gravano
After an unsuccessful attempt to patch things up with her boyfriend Storm, Gravano stopped by friend and cast member Renee Graziano's house to update her on her relationship problems. Storm's jealousy and aggressiveness sent Gravano over the edge when she arrived home one night from a dinner with her friends and found Storm waiting for her at her house. He accused her of cheating and asked to see her phone and broke it during a heated argument. "This is not healthy, you need to just break it off," Graziano advised her friend. But when Gravano met with Storm to return his things, they reconciled and promised to work on their communication to save their relationship.
Angela "Big Ang" Raiola
As a convicted felon, Raiola is not legally allowed to have a liquor license which led to the closing of her popular Staten Island bar, The Drunken Monkey. Raiola is struggling to make ends meet now that she's out of work, and even though her husband Neil picked up a second job in construction, they still argued over money and bills. But to take her mind off the stress, Raiola threw herself a 55th "cancer-free" birthday party and invited her friends and cast members, even though most of the ladies aren't getting along.
"Big Ang's" Birthday Party
Even though cast member Carla Facciolo isn't getting along with her former best friend D'Avanzo, newcomer Marissa Jade isn't fond of D'Avanzo, Jade is also not getting along with new cast member Brittany Fogarty and D'Avanzo distanced herself from the group, all the women decided to put their differences aside for one night and support Raiola at her birthday party. Jade confronted D'Avanzo for allegedly "snubbing" her at a previous event and the women were able to shake hands and move on, and Jade and Fogarty keep their distance from each other. But when one of Raiola's male friends called Gravano's father a "rat," Gravano exploded and Raiola had to ask her guest to leave. Once everything calmed down, D'Avanzo decided it wasn't the right time to approach Facciolo. After the party, Raiola realized she was tired of all the tension and set up a sit-down between herself, D'Avanzo, Gravano and Facciolo. "This sit down is gonna go down like the wise guys used to do it," Raiola said, "there's only one way in and one way out."
