![]() ![]() “I feel like people look for scapegoats too, ‘Oh no, it wasn’t us – we’re not the weak-minded people, it was the reality show, it was those guys, it was everybody else but us,'” Victoria states. And every decision I make, even now, while they’re much older, I ask myself, ‘How will this affect my kids?’ and then, ‘How will this affect me?'” So, every decision I make in my life, I try to weigh out very cautiously. “We are all responsible for our own choices in life, good or bad, and no one forces anyone to do anything for any other purpose, whether it be money, whether it be fame, whether it be some sort of gain. “I don’t believe in that whole thing ‘reality cameras ruined my life.’ Hey – somebody made that decision,” Victoria adds. We did it because I, at the time, decided to do it.” “We’ll never be that family – I’ll never be that person – that will come out, and I know a buncha people that have done it who I can name off the top of my head, ‘Oh my God, the reality show ruined my life.’ or ‘Oh my God – we went here and we did this and we were broke and my kids went amok…’ We never looked at this as some sort of future or financial gain. Victoria feels that one reason her family was able to be successful with reality TV is that they never let the show define them. Having said that, having done that – looking at them now: No regrets.” That’s not the way my children were raised and that’s not the way they were going to be raised. My biggest concern was if I saw any one kid where he was kinda floating off the ground, even an inch, I would be there to pull him right back down. “It was a complete revamping from what I had signed on for – I had a little bit of reservation in the beginning. “And Boom! It’s the birth of a whole new show,” Victoria recalls. Per the show’s original goals, Carmine, Frank, and John were to be “background noise in my crazy, busy life, as the network phrased it, ‘as a socialite’ – they felt that was a glamorous enough life, and then coupled that with who I am, my father’s persona, they thought was exciting enough,” recounts Victoria.Ī “cameo” from the boys during the first episode took off with viewers. Initially Victoria’s sons weren’t to be a focus on Growing Up Gotti, which was planned to be about her work in the entertainment industry as a correspondent and columnist, combined with her being infamous mobster John Gotti‘s daughter. I’m proud of them for that, but I do worry – there’s a lot more to life.” “It worries me,” Victoria does admit, “because I think all they do is work. They don’t always see eye-to-eye, but they generally get along, they know what it takes to make it work.” The business works – it’s a very successful business. They aren’t “out there partying,” Victoria says.”They’re very hard working kids. For me, I have what a lot of people don’t have, I have not photo albums of my children growing up, I have a series.”Īs for what Carmine, Frank, and Joey are up to now they currently own their own steel plant business. Reflecting on why reality TV has been such positive experience for her, Victoria reveals that it all comes down to working with her family.”I love, love, loved traveling and working with the boys. It not only gives me the excitement that I love in my life, to do what I wanna do – write, be in the entertainment industry on the other side – it gives you kind of a bird’s eye view and then to be able to do it with my children, it’s incredible!” “It’s a real big gift for me a special gift. “We could do what we love with a purpose,” Victoria explains. ![]() They also decided doing the show made sense from a professional standpoint. They were happy with what they did, they were happy with the end result, and I think overall they were really glad they did it.” And afterward, I spoke with each one of them – everybody loved it. “As much as they won’t admit it, they missed it,” Victoria shares. “We sat down as a family, we decided as a family, and then did it. Victoria says at first her sons were “ambivalent” about participating in the update, but ultimately decided to sign on. “We all have grown, the boys astoundingly so, but myself as well, and I think everyone’s going to be pleasantly surprised,” says Victoria of the show’s premise. Growing Up Gotti: 10 Years Later will also feature Victoria’s larger-than-life sons Carmine, Frank, and John. ![]()
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