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New Jersey Real House Wives aum DIN messengerA girl, Lexi Ioannou, really had her relationship with the former Tommy Manzo.
“He had this, this, as, a strange obsession with me,” claimed Lexi, 29, when he appeared on Monday’s episode, May 26, Judge already‘S. “Casual Chaos” podcast. “For years, people would tell me that he kept my room exactly the same because he thought I was going to come back. I can’t even start understanding why he would think I would ever come back there.”
He claimed that Tommy “had held my things for, you know, 10 years” after he and Dina split.
“He never had children himself and I was the closest thing he had to him. So he loved me very much,” Lexi continued. “He was never inappropriate, but definitely was very affectionate. And that was something I was very uncomfortable with him because neither of my parents is that way. Receiving it from a herd is a kind of, like, strangely extra when you don’t receive it from your real father.”
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He added, “I was told to pay that kind of affection for respect. So I felt that our relationship was very uncomfortable for me.”
Dina, 53, married Tommy in 2007 when Lexi was 6 years old. They separated in 2012 and divorced four years later. Pure married now-husband David cantine in 2017. (Tommy is all brother -gyn – Rhonj star Caroline Manzohusband, Albert Manzo.)
Tommy is currently imprisoned. In October 2024, the US Attorney Office in the New Jersey area announced that Tommy sentenced to 84 months in prison for “hiring, then aid, a soldier in Lucchese crime family to attack a cantine in 2015.
Lexi first spoke about her relationship with Tommy in a Subtack article called “Don’t Poke The Bear,” where she remembered unleashing her mother’s relationship. She claimed that in 2012 she had been shaken “violently” awake by Tommy, who told Lexi she had 30 minutes to “get the ***” out of her house. “
“In that chaotic moment, I lost not only my home but also irrevocable heirlooms collected over generations as well as my childhood keepers,” he wrote at the time. “I mourn not only for myself, but for my future children, as these tangible links with my family history have been brought from us.”
During Monday’s podcast chapter, Lexi claimed that After Tommy went to prisonHe reached out to Caroline’s daughter, Lauren manzoto try to get her stuff back – but she never did.
“I had an understanding that he kept everything of me all those years. So I wanted that back,” he continued. “It was very difficult for me to stretch myself and ask for help, but I was that desperate. I wanted those things back.”
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Lexi told Gia that what went down after Dina and Tommy’s divorce was still “shocked” to her family.
“I went to the case last year and sat there for a week, and listened to everyone witnessing,” said Lexi. “My mum and I are so different like that. She couldn’t even stomach be there for, like, 30 minutes. I went every day, all day, for seven days. I needed to know everything. The word that came up was a lot obsessive.
He added, “Some of the things he has done have been the most painful things I have ever had to face in my life. Seeing my mother go through, see Dave go through. It’s been absolutely unfair.”
