The Actual Housewives of Miami star Alexia Nepola is opening up about her relationship along with her estranged sister.
“So, the standing with my sister is nice,” Alexia, 58, completely advised Us Weekly earlier this month whereas attending the Web page Six Digital Reali-Tea “VRT Awards” at Metropolis Vineyard in Chicago.
“I really had dinner along with her Monday night time,” she continued. “We had an attractive, great time. You understand, when you might have that sister bond — which I at all times have had along with her — we see one another and it’s like nothing occurred, you understand? Simply, like, typically you might have a great good friend like that.”
She continued, “You understand, it’s actually unlucky as a result of I really did want her, and I felt like, after she noticed the struggling that I had, she’s gonna settle for me for, like, who I’m. That’s all I needed. I simply didn’t need her to, like, decide me. I really feel like I’m at all times being judged and it hurts, like, when it’s out of your sister. However yeah, we’re nice. We’re doing nice.”
Navigating the ups and downs of her relationship along with her sister gave Alexia a chance to raised join with and perceive her fellow castmate, Stephanie Shojaee, who’s coping with her family turmoil.
“I felt like Stephanie and I did have a connection, as a result of we each had one thing in widespread,” she defined to us. “We’re two totally different folks, you understand?

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Stephanie, 40, is famously estranged from her two twin sisters, and has overtly mentioned their fractured relationship.
She continued, “I’ve my very own mind. I’m totally different from [my sister] in some ways. I can nonetheless love her, and I can nonetheless be nice along with her, however we’re totally different folks and I really like that individuality. I’ve my very own ideas. So with Stephanie — similar factor. I simply hope that she will reconcile along with her sisters, as a result of I do know that she’s hurting and all of us want our sisters in our life.”
In the course of the RHOM After Present following the season 7 finale, Stephanie revealed that certainly one of her two an identical twin sisters had reached out after the pair had been estranged for a while.
“There’s communication,” she stated on the time, particularly whereas she was caring for her daughter’s black schnauzer. “So, I do report again possibly as soon as per week, and I ship photos, and she or he writes again, like, ‘He seems to be so joyful; You’re such an important mother.’”
Her different sister, nonetheless, has been “fully M.I.A. from her life.”
“I don’t have her phone quantity, I don’t have her handle. I don’t have any of her contact info,” she defined on the time. “Her emails all bounced, so she’s off the map.”