Exclusive: Jersey Shore's Sammi: Why I Took Back Raging Ex Ronnie
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Jersey Shore's Sammi Giancola has forgiven -- but not forgotten -- her man.
After millions of the MTV reality hit's fans saw her crying and humiliated as she and her on-and-off beau Ronnie Ortiz-Magro got in a violent blowout, Giancola, 22, is opening up in the new Us Weekly (out now) about why she decided to take her raging ex back.
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"He's a good person," Giancola tells Us of Ortiz-Magro, 25, who stomped on her glasses and called her a "spoiled bitch" during the spat. "Nobody's perfect. I get out of hand, he gets out of hand."
While Giancola remains confident in her bond with Ortiz-Magro, friends of the couple are not convinced their recent reunion will stick.
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"Sam always has excuses," a Giancola pal says of the reality star, who started dating Ortiz-Magro in summer 2009. "She kept saying that wasn't the Ronnie she knew. Ronnie was verbally abusive for sure."
For more on the "tumultuous and passionate" couple -- including how "Single Ronnie" spent Valentine's Day and what the pair's six housemates think of their reunion -- pick up the new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.















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25And we all know how the last two episodes have been so boring without the two of them in it!
I could only imagine if any of YOUR relationships played out on television. Plenty of people ride the same relationship roller coaster that Sammi and Ronnie are on. Especially after what happen in Miami. They love each other, but Sam has a lot of penned up rage from what Ronnie did to her. Which I do not blame her for. Let them be...
i think that sammi and ronnie need to go to couples therapy,get some anger management and then perhaps with any luck begin to focus on why they cant seem to pull it together there has to be a reason why they are always fighting.if sammi cannot get over the unfaithfulness that ronnie deminstated in miami then maybe it is for the best that they move on and find other people to begin relationships with and then find there way back to one another and see how time apart and with another helps the relationship develope into something strong and meaningful..
Hey, I think they're both good people but some times you just don't belong together, and that's them. They need to stay apart and sort things out. Worst pairs have lasted but if they really want to make this situation any better, they need some serious therapy! Good luck to them.
It's funny, I can pinpoint the exact moment their relationship changed. The minute Sammi misjudged a situation and took that cop's number, then confessed to Mike. There was a situation. ;)It set in motion a series of tit for tat moments and trust issues. Disrespect provokes further disrespect. She's so stubborn she thinks that that situation didn't warrant what Ronnie did. Maybe it didn't, but when the people you love do effed up things, that hurt you, sometimes, you do effed up things back. So they broke up, in Miami they see each other again, obviously still have feelings, but, Ronnie missed out on so much in Jersey, he wants to enjoy it. He's still paying her back for what ultimately ruined the relationship, her insecurity. Without a doubt, Ronnie bent over backwards for Sammi. Pandered to her every need. Even *I* wanted to date Ronnie in season 1 he was such a sweet, good looking, funny guy. He even defended her slow a** getting ready to go out with his parents. I digress. Season 2, her insecurity is way out of control, he is way out of control still hurting from the disrespect of the last season, and bitter about missing out on a great experience. He wants to have a piece of every cake he can get his hands on, as he was starved before. In a way, I figured, she deserved some genuine pain, for the phantom pain she thought she felt in season 1, but Ronnie was out of control. He put everyone in an awkward situation, and treated her so badly. Jenni and Snooki tried to do the best with one of the worst situations, and it backfired. As per her insecurity, Sam lashed out at the people trying to help her AND Ronnie, but stayed with him even though he just made her look like a stupid, desperate female. She loves him so much, she's smothering him. He loves her so much, he can't get over the first issue in Miami, and how she treated him and the fact she doesnâ??t recognize her mistakes. Because of ALL these issues, and all the drama, down to ONE vital moment, coupled with her crippling insecurity (not that I'm blaming her entirely, I'm blaming her insecurity, it gets the best of us) what should have been a great happy relationship, turned 'toxic' as everyone likes to say. They can't get over their past. They feel so much for each other, one is desperately going over the past, hoping it will change through thorough analysis, and the other is trying to move forward and block it out. It doesn't work if they don't communicate. I think that's why they keep getting back together. Despite everything, there is a reason they got together in the first place. A genuine connection, otherwise it wouldn't hurt so much, and they wouldn't keep making allowances for their atrocious behaviour. It's insane what you accept when you're in love. Ask anyone. She doesn't admit when she's wrong. Everything is about what 'Ron did to me(her)' or things that have 'been done to me that are not okay'. She doesn't take responsibility for the way she's acted. He knows this, it pisses him off and deals with it incorrectly, abusively (thereâ??s no other word for it) He, on the other hand, expects her to just deal with it and move the eff on. Ideal, but not that simple. In season 3 when she went and danced with that random guy after they broke up the most recent time - Ronnie deserved a wake up call. Cheating behind someone's back, doesn't show respect. If you have done so, have the respect not to go and sleep in your partnersâ?? bed afterwards. That's respect. Have the respect to sleep in your own bed and reconsider your actions, rather than feel proud of yourself. That's why it hurts more, and she can't stop thinking about it. She has no closure on the situation because she still doesn't feel like she did anything to warrant his behaviour. Some people may agree that nothing she did, deserves how he's been treating her, but if you've seen two people with passionate feelings for each other, there will be fireworks. Humans are destructive. Humans are passionate. Humans are weak. Go figure.
wow she is just a stuipd girl to stick around or she gets turned on by it. Either way the worset role models I have ever seen. I really hope girls and guys dont take their explames on how to be treated and also to treat others that way.
Most dysfunctional, toxic relationship ever.
SAMMI WHY DID YOU TAKE BACK RONNI BACK,HE IS GOING TO HURT YOU AGAIN.
I'm sure they'll spin off and get a show of their own...a bad relationship can never turn good, you can't change anyone!
well she better start learning how to cook...lmao
these two are the worst couple in america besides heidi and spencer!!
SAMMIE SHOULD DATE MARK SANCHEZ, QB OF THE JETS. SHE'S CUTER THAN JAMIE LYYN SIGLER. PLUS, SAMMIE'S A HUGE JETS FAN.
They are both immature. He's a hot head and she's spoiled, but I think they really do love each other. They might get back together on the show, but that was months ago. They are not together now and haven't been for 6 months.
oh please! I have a feeling once MTV stops filming them, they'll be "off" again in no time. I don't think this show is scripted, but I'm sure producers have ways of pressuring these kids to stay together for ratings.
Typical response of a woman who is being abused mentally or physically..."he's a good person". So sad
Love is close to hate or so they say. At the end of the day, when the cameras are turned off, she's going to have to live with this guy. It won't be pretty.....
Stupid women make me cringe.
They act like they hate each other. I don't get it.
Ugh, I can't stand these two, they deserve eachother, both morons and he needs to get off the roids.
THE POOR GUY IS RAGING CAUSE ALL THAT DAM STEROID HES TAKING ,,AND SHE WELL SHES A DRAMA QUEEN AND LOVE THE ATTENTION HE GIVES HER .. THEY ARE PERFECT TOGETHER !!