Christmas came a couple days early for Teresa Giudice and her family.
Early Wednesday morning, the detestable reality star was released from a prison in Connecticut after spending nearly a year there due to her admitted role in a bankruptcy and mortgage fraud scheme.
Bravo cameras were not permitted to film Teresa’s actual departure from the correctional facility in Danbury, but we’ve learned they are already inside her home, gathering up footage for an upcoming special.
We can’t wait.
(NOTE: If that sarcasm failed to successfully come through your computer screen, allow us to emphasize: we totally can wait.)
According to various outlets, meanwhile, Teresa was driven from the jail by her lawyer and reunited inside her mansion with husband Joe Giudice and the couple’s four daughters:
Gia, 14, Gabriella, 11, Milania, 10, and Audriana, 6.
For the sake of those poor children, we actually are very happy that their mother is back home.
“It was very emotional,” attorney James J. Leonard Jr. told reporters about his wife’s reunion with her children. “It was a private moment but it was very emotional, very powerful and it was something to see.”
How many people out there want to wager that this “private moment” will be featured on Bravo some time in the near future?
Leonard added that his client had a message she wanted him to pass along.
“Merry Christmas. Happy New Year….all of you should go be with your families and your loved ones,"” he quoted her as saying.
Giudice has already been welcomed home by friends and random Twitter users, though her release does come with certain conditions.
She must remain on home confinement, wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, until February 5. which was her original early release date.
However, Giudice will be allowed to work, meaning shooting on a new season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey can now begin at any time.
For his role in the same set of financial frauds and schemes, Joe Giudice will begin serving a 41-month prison sentence in March