Renee Graziano, 'Mob Wives' Star, Talks The Ultimate Betrayal

"The Real Housewives" look like pussycats compared to the "Mob Wives," but don't think it's all about cat fights and settling scores: the crime family bunch insists their reality show exits to help people.

"I remember the day I gave up drinking because that was the day that my father was arrested," Renee Graziano, star of VH1's "Mob Wives," told me. "Anthony Graziano is his name and he just came home [from prison]. My ex-husband got him arrested [again] -- trust me."

But the plot only thickens. Renee's ex-husband, Hector "Junior" Pagan, who Renee says was responsible for putting her dad in jail again, was an FBI informant who was secretly taping his conversations with Renee's father.

"The truth of the matter is, it is the ultimate betrayal," Renee told me on my talk show, "Naughty But Nice with Rob." "I don't think it could have gone any worse than that. It is very hard and heart-wrenching to watch my son go through this. For me, I am strong."

"What makes you so strong?" she continued. "I think it's the truth and I know that sounds silly to people, but I think God really put me on this earth to learn and teach so I think he is letting me go through everything I have asked for. I believe I am here to help someone else and I think that's the greatest gift."

It sounds like the third season will be full of "gifts" like this revelation.

"Naughty But Nice with Rob" airs every Thursday at 8:00 p.m. on HDNet.

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Comments

[Eddy333]

05:03 PM on 03/01/2012

If she's "all grown up" now, it would be nice to know when she is going to stop looking like she's 10 years old.

This is important for, uh, a couple of reasons that, uh, I won't go into here.

[evavrgs]

12:24 AM on 02/20/2012

Renee', cut him loose. That's it, take it from someone whose been there and now is out of it. You cannot get over someone you're with. Impossible! The only thing holding you back is either revenge or your PRIDE. Where will that get you? Admitting you've had it, doesn't make you weak it means you have surrendered to the fact that things are the way they and you've accepted that, then move on. Painful, but you will have to FEEL it now and it's OVER. Delay it, stay with him, and keep feeling it, over and over and over and . . . Well you get the picture. Good luck. I know this is TV, but for anyone else who's in same situation--same advice because I've lived it. Over it.

How do you expect to meet someone, if you haven't given up the old one and all HIS damn baggage. You want to meet a good man, be a good woman. I don't mean GOOD as in "goodie two shoes". I mean good as in a good decision maker, good about directing your life, see? Last relationship I was in, I still didn't get it right. I've taken time to get myself together, working on me. You know?

[Lisa1129]

08:34 PM on 02/19/2012

Someone found captain winkie.

[dmm1047]

08:04 PM on 02/19/2012

What these frauds are doing is trying to live through a family member, what they read in books or watch in the movies. Grown women, none with jobs, who want to "come for you?" How phony can you get?

[Lisa1129]

12:08 PM on 02/19/2012

Hey guys, how many of you want to wake up the next morning
laying next to that?

[Mr Nightlinger]

10:31 AM on 02/19/2012

Holy CRAP that lady looks like Richard Nixon with lipstick.

I hate this whole topic--the mob, mobsters, Italian-Americans, organized crime, greaseballs--what filthy, horrible people these are. Terrorists. That's all "the mafia" is. Terrorism.

So why not make a show about Al Queda wives next? I would just as soon watch what the bitches of the bitches who suicide bomb our country and our troops have to say. In fact, I respect Al Quaeda more than I do most Italian-Americans. At least they believe in something--their religion or their freedom from U.S. opression--whereas all these unibrow greasers care about is money, image and "business." Real "tough guys," living at home with their mothers and sisters cleaning and cooking for them until they are 45 years old. F the mafia.

[Tedison]

06:47 AM on 02/19/2012

Damn that is ugly

[Pearl Jam111]

02:59 AM on 02/19/2012

Jesus Christ what the hell is that?

[Tedison]

06:50 AM on 02/19/2012

How did yours get through? All I said was damn that's ugly.

[Rob Shuter]

04:32 PM on 02/18/2012

Renee is a strong lady

[hollace]

03:07 AM on 02/18/2012

Renee? What kind of Italian name is Renee? she must be Romanov..Romanian...

[hollace]

03:03 AM on 02/18/2012

she's from Jersey where all the Gypsies are right. She just CAN'T be Italian...no way. No one in Italy would say she's Italian I don't think.

[Capncuster]

08:46 PM on 02/17/2012

Is anyone else reminded of Rodney Dangerfield's line in Caddyshack, "The last time...it had a hook in it"?

[Tedison]

08:36 AM on 02/19/2012

Ha!!!

[Lisa1129]

08:31 PM on 02/20/2012

Big Ang lips are so big, i thought she was sucking the tail pipe of a bus,
or she wrapped her mouth around a hot curling iron.

[Brigette]

07:55 PM on 02/17/2012

It's shameful to admit, but loving this show is my dirty little secret. Most of it is staged of course, it's a TV show, but it's still hilarious. You gotta love lines like (in staten island accent) "You wanna keep talkin outta that mouth? You're gonna have your jaw wired." LOL Karen's book just came out and I would love to read it, but I can't justify buying criminals more diamond rings. I do feel bad for the kids, generation after generation, they learn this kind of behavior is normal, and turn around and do the same thing themselves. People like the show though, or it wouldn't be on.

[BadHaBritt]

07:44 PM on 02/17/2012

Oh! I get it. "God put me on this earth to help people". Namely HERSELF.

[hollace]

07:26 PM on 02/17/2012

she doesn't look Italian. She looks more Gypsy.