Renee’s dad tells her, ‘You made your bed. Now sleep in it’ — and cut off contact!
How do Cosa Nostra members feel about their daughters and wives participating in VH1′s new hit show, Mob Wives? For star Renee Graziano — the fact that she let a TV crew film her life didn’t settle too well with her father Anthony Graziano, onetime consigliere of the Bonanno crime family, who’s behind bars at a federal penitentiary.
“He has no reaction because we don’t speak, not now, not after I made the decision to do the show,” Renee tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively. “He said to me, ‘You made your bed. Now sleep in it.’ My father doesn’t agree with anyone putting their life on [TV].”
For Renee, going on the show wasn’t about her father — or the fact that he didn’t approve of her choice.
“I think I needed to develop my own identity outside of my family life — out of the lifestyle,” Renee explains to us. “I was also pretty tired of people judging me upon a lifestyle — not realizing that I’m a woman, I’m a mom, I go through hardships. No sympathy — that’s not something that I want from anyone. It was my way of really planting my feet and making a change in my life.”
For the rest of Renee’s friends and family — “My family supports me,” says Renee. And, “more than three-quarters of the people are supporting me fully. For the most part, friends … they are very proud of me.”
“My father doesn’t agree with my decision,” adds Renee. But, “my father will always love me. He will always protect me. He’s my dad.”
- Lindsey DiMattina
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Erv
Posted at 2:18 AM on March 28, 2012
All these ladies are some of the toughest women. I know cause they remind me of my mother when i was a young boy from Detroit in the 60′s and 70′s. i remember my mother breaking down after my father was busted. I remember seeing her toughing it out while he was in prison. I remember the only thing that got her thought it was her children and her girlfriends. Ladies hang on to each other and your children. Renee hang on sister let the strength of god and your heart help pull you through this.
laura
Posted at 4:20 PM on March 26, 2012
Renay. You have to be strong for you and your son. Don’t cry for a man ,there are better fish in the sea.
Olivia
Posted at 3:39 PM on March 26, 2012
So fake this show! Anyone else notice Renee had two different colors of nailpolish on while allegedly making repeated calls as soon as she read Jr’s letter???
ruth
Posted at 12:50 AM on March 29, 2012
I noticed it because when she first came downstairs to the kitchen and picked up the letter and the phone her nails were black and a few minutes later they were red!!! Makes you wonder do they think we are that stupid not to notice that!!
chris
Posted at 12:45 PM on April 16, 2012
i thought i was going senile. thanks :)
Annamay Gambino
Posted at 12:28 PM on March 26, 2012
These women need to take care of themselves and their families while the fathers, husbands, cousins, uncles, whatever are incarcerated. If doing Mob Wives allows that, more power to them. The old life is done. All things change.
john
Posted at 3:56 AM on March 26, 2012
how is renee a mob wife if if her man is puerto rican?
Mr Green
Posted at 11:57 AM on March 26, 2012
Exactly!That show is the phoniest crap,her father is a real good fella,she’s a mob daughter.Crap TV!
Curt
Posted at 9:51 PM on March 27, 2012
Uh, she is married to a mob guy, did you miss something
Tbrumley
Posted at 10:38 PM on April 24, 2012
Karen also should be called mob women or mob daughters. How about raising your kids to be in the mob.
joe
Posted at 1:19 AM on March 27, 2012
Mob doesnt just mean puerto rican its an institution to which you have to be accepted in. A snitch can come from the inside no matter what you are Italian, Greek, Irish, if your in the mob your in the mob.
Curt
Posted at 9:49 PM on March 27, 2012
What’s your point the mob is full people that are not white. it was only that way in the 50 years ago.
Tbrumley
Posted at 10:40 PM on April 24, 2012
They just can’t be made which means they take no oath which means they can not be trusted.
Shery Shay
Posted at 1:26 AM on March 26, 2012
sedale, It’s Big ANG! and NO guys Renee is done with the RAT EX of hers. he went straight to Witness Protection. so now he has to look over his shoulder the rest of his life. if he wouldn’t have been screwing up he wouldn’t have to rat on an old man. i feel sorry for A.J. no father,worse yet now grandpa will probably be locked up for the rest of his life. cuz of his RAT DAD!