{"id":2518909,"date":"2026-07-27T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2518909"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:57:30","slug":"milania-giudices-family-mourns-death-of-her-childhood-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/milania-giudices-family-mourns-death-of-her-childhood-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Milania Giudice&#8217;s Family Mourns Death of Her Childhood Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Milania Giudice<\/strong> and her family are <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/celebrity-deaths-of-2026-grateful-deads-bob-weir-and-more-stars-we-lost\/\">mourning the loss<\/a> of her childhood friend <strong>Victoria Zardoya<\/strong> after a fatal accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no words for this kind of pain,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/joe-giudice\/\"><strong>Joe Giudice<\/strong><\/a> wrote via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbRXpqYSZLR\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a> on Sunday, July 26, sharing a photo of himself with Milania, 20, and her friends. \u201cVictoria, you were like a daughter to me. I watched you grow up with my daughter Milania. We were neighbors for years, and you became part of our family. I can\u2019t believe you\u2019re gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe, 54, continued: \u201cTo think that a simple fall while just being young and having fun could take such a beautiful life is heartbreaking. You were only 20 years old, with your whole future ahead of you. Life is so fragile. In one moment, everything can change. Please don\u2019t take a single day or the people you love for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former reality star added that he would \u201cnever forget\u201d Victoria, who would \u201calways have a place in our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/teresa-giudices-daughter-milania-tearfully-leaves-for-college-in-florida\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/teresa-giudices-daughter-milania-tearfully-leaves-for-college-in-florida\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Teresa Giudice\u2019s Daughter Milania Tearfully Leaves for College in Florida<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTeresa Giudice\u2019s 18-year-old daughter, Milania, is college-bound. Milania\u2019s sister Gia, 23, documented her departure for the University of Tampa in a Thursday, August 22, TikTok video. \u201cI\u2019m a little bit sad right now, leaving,\u201d Milania said to the camera before hugging Gia and thanking her for helping her pack. The sisters then shared a long [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMy heart is with your family. Rest in peace, beautiful girl. Until we meet again. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f\ud83d\udc94,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/teresa-giudice\/\"><strong>Teresa Giudice<\/strong><\/a> added a heart emoji and praying hands in the comments section. She also shared her own tribute via her Instagram Story on Sunday, writing, \u201cWe love Victoria.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:177.7%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium credit-added wp-image-4388133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Milania Giudice Family Mourns Death of Her Childhood Friend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIlania-Giudice-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Gia Giudice\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Milania, for her part, uploaded a series of throwback photos from her childhood via her Instagram Story. Milania later included a quote which read, \u201cLowkey hate nostalgia because what do you mean I can never go back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An official <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/influencer-deaths-of-2026-all-of-the-stars-weve-lost-this-year\/\">cause of death<\/a> has not yet been revealed for Victoria, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/rhonjs-teresa-giudice-shows-off-daughter-milanias-luxe-dorm-room\/\">attended the University of Tampa<\/a> with Milania.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gia<\/strong> and <strong>Audriana Giudice<\/strong> also joined in honoring their sister\u2019s late friend with heartfelt tributes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeaven gained a beautiful angel today,\u201d Gia, 25, wrote via her Instagram Story on Sunday. \u201cWe love you Victoria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate upload, she noted that Milania and Victoria shared \u201ca bond that was never broken,\u201d adding, \u201c20 years too young my sweet angel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Audriana, 16, wrote her own thoughtful message, stating that Victoria would \u201calways be in our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere are no words that can make sense of this,\u201d she continued. \u201cYou were truly one of the most beautiful souls inside and out. You weren\u2019t just a close friend but you were a part of our family and I\u2019ll always be grateful that I got to grow up with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Audriana added that losing Victoria \u201cdoesn\u2019t feel real and I don\u2019t think it ever will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou had so much life left to live. Thank you for every laugh and every memory. Rest in peace beautiful girl,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYou will be loved and missed forever \ud83e\udd0d\ud83e\udebd.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milania Giudice and her family are mourning the loss of her childhood friend Victoria Zardoya after a fatal accident. \u201cThere are no words for this kind of pain,\u201d Joe Giudice wrote via Instagram on Sunday, July 26, sharing a photo of himself with Milania, 20, and her friends. \u201cVictoria, you were like a daughter to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2518910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003],"class_list":["post-2518909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Milania-Giudices-Family-Mourns-Death-of-Her-Childhood-Friend.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518911,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518909\/revisions\/2518911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2518910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}