Joe Gorga was just as shocked about his reconciliation with Teresa Giudice as The Real Housewives of New Jersey fans were. "I was like, 'Is this real? This is my sister.' I was very confused," Joe, 51, said during the Tuesday, March 31, episode of the "Casual Chaos" podcast. "Took me a minute. I'm like, 'Is this a joke?'" Podcast host Gia Giudice joked that her uncle thought he "saw a ghost" after receiving the text message from her mom. "It took me a little minute to make it comprehend and sink in," he recalled. "I answered her right away. That's exactly what I wanted, because it's not me.