- Nadine Macaluso, 55, was married to the monetary criminal from 1991 to 2005
- Their tumultuous relationship was portrayed within the film Wolf of Wall Road
- Nadine spoke about her preliminary response to the movie in a latest TikTok video
The previous spouse of the true life Wolf of Wall Road has opened up about what it was like for her to observe the film for the primary time alongside her monetary criminal ex and their teen son – who had a hilarious response to the raunchy intercourse scenes.
Nadine Macaluso, 55, who now works as a wedding counselor and household therapist in California, met Jordan Belfort, 61, when she was simply 22 years outdated and dealing as a mannequin.
The 2 quickly grew to become engulfed in a whirlwind romance, tying the knot in 1991 and welcoming two youngsters collectively, earlier than they in the end divorced in 2005 after 14 years of marriage.
And after they went their separate methods, Nadine accused the dealer of bodily and psychological abuse, which she mentioned was fueled by his rampant drug habit and a number of infidelities.
Nadine and Jordan’s tumultuous relationship – in addition to Jordan’s illicit inventory market scheme which noticed him steal almost $200 million from traders – was portrayed within the wildly standard 2013 flick Wolf of Wall Road, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan and Margot Robbie as Nadine, who was renamed Naomi for the film.
The model-turned-therapist has turn out to be a viral TikTok star in a latest months for spilling quite a few secrets and techniques about their marriage – and revealing which scenes of the Martin Scorsese movie had been correct and which had been exaggerated for the sake of views.
Most just lately, she reminisced in regards to the preliminary ideas that she had after she noticed the movie for the primary time, in addition to her then-teenaged son’s very awkward response to watching the celebrities who portrayed his dad and mom get intimate within the film.
Based on Nadine, the studio behind the flick, Paramount, reached out to ask her to a ‘non-public screening’ earlier than it premiered.
And whereas she was extraordinarily nervous to observe a movie ‘about her life,’ she recalled being relieved over how ‘humorous and superior’ the retelling was.
‘I keep in mind Paramount saying to me, “You and your husband can go to a personal screening at Paramount studios,”‘ she defined in a brand new TikTok video.
‘It was very surreal to sit down in a theater and anticipate a film to come back on the display screen that is about your life.
‘We watched the film, and it was tremendous humorous and superior. My husband and I checked out one another like, “Oh my God, it wasn’t that unhealthy.”‘
After that, she and Jordan determined to take their son, who was 17 years outdated on the time, to a different non-public displaying – in order that he may see it with them reasonably than hear about it within the media.
However when a few of the X-rated moments that Nadine and Jordan shared collectively began to play out on the display screen, a horrified Nadine tried to protect the then-teen from it.
‘We’re watching the film and naturally some loopy sexual scene comes on,’ she continued.
‘I push my son’s head down and he pushes it again up and goes, “Mother if it isn’t you I can watch it.”‘
Nadine beforehand admitted that she was ‘mortified’ when she first came upon they had been making the film about her and Jordan as a result of she was satisfied it might destroy her profession as a therapist.
‘Once I first came upon they had been going to make the film The Wolf Of Wall Road – I believe it was round 2011-2012 – evidently, I used to be mortified,’ she mentioned in one other video.
‘I had already lived this entire Greek tragedy after which it was going to be splashed all around the world. My trauma for the world to see.
‘And it was doubly traumatizing as a result of I used to be getting my doctorate in psychology, so I used to be like, “Who the hell goes to wish to see me as a therapist?”‘
Nadine added that she was offended in regards to the movie as a result of it wasn’t her ‘narrative’ and she or he would not be getting any cash for it – however that in the long run, it truly helped her profession.
‘I used to be irritated, it wasn’t my narrative, I made no cash, I had no artistic enter however then impulsively, I noticed it was going to occur and it was larger than me,’ she mentioned.
‘And, paradoxically what occurred was in my remedy observe, individuals mentioned to me, “Wait I wish to come see you as a therapist since you went by means of that and you bought over right here and that is the life that you just lead, you stroll your discuss. So in the long run, all of it labored out.’
Jordan spent 22 months in jail after it was delivered to gentle that he had scammed greater than 1,500 individuals by means of an elaborate stockbroker scheme in 1999 – all whereas he was married to Nadine.
Nadine has since remarried, and she or he has been together with her new husband, John Macaluso, who has three youngsters from a previous relationship, for 23 years now.
In one other latest TikTok, Nadine spoke intimately in regards to the harrowing ‘trauma’ that she confronted when she first tried to depart Jordan – revealing that he lit her garments and jewellery on hearth and ‘kicked her down the steps.’
Whereas discussing the ‘horrific’ a part of the film that confirmed Jordan beat Naomi earlier than making an attempt to steal their daughter whereas he was excessive on cocaine – Nadine admitted that whereas a few of it wasn’t true, he did get violent together with her and attempt to take their youngsters away when she informed him she needed to finish their marriage.
Within the scene, Naomi informed Jordan that she needed a divorce, that she’s going to request full custody of their two youngsters, and that she’ll solely permit him to go to if he agreed to the divorce then and there – which sparked a fierce response from the inventory dealer.
However based on Nadine, that is not the way it went down in actual life. She said in a TikTok video, ‘That scene begins with me telling Jordan that I will take his youngsters from him. That by no means occurred.
‘I by no means informed Jordan as soon as – when he was in jail, when he received indicted, or another time – that I might take his youngsters from him.’
Within the film, as Jordan grew to become increasingly enraged, he began to get bodily with Naomi – in the end punching her within the intestine, grabbing their daughter from her mattress, and making an attempt to drive away with the teenager earlier than crashing right into a wall.
‘What truly occurred was, as you see within the film, Jordan had a extreme drug habit and I used to be actually considering he was going to kill himself,’ Nadine mentioned.
‘What I mentioned to him was, “I am not going to sit down right here and watch you kill your self.” So I informed him I used to be going to depart him except he went to rehab.
‘He lit my clothes and jewellery on hearth, he threw them within the fire and he received actually, actually offended with me.
‘He informed me he was going to take my daughter to Florida, and I used to be like, “No, over my lifeless physique.”
‘At that second was when he received violent with me and he kicked me down the steps. That was truly how that scene occurred in actual life.’
Nadine has mentioned tons of different moments from the film on her TikTok account – the place she’s racked up greater than 314,000 followers – together with that X-rated scene between her and Jordan of their daughter’s nursery, which Margot later admitted she ‘dreaded’ filming.
It reveals Naomi and Jordan arguing after Naomi catches Jordan dishonest on her. She then makes an attempt to mess with him by spreading her legs and making him need her, earlier than telling him that he will not be allowed to the touch her for some time.
She even begins pleasuring herself – with their daughter simply inches away in her crib – earlier than he factors out that there is a secret digital camera hidden within the child’s teddy bear, which meant their safety crew had a full view of the motion.
Nadine said on TikTok that the interplay by no means truly occurred in actual life.
‘So lots of you’ve requested me, is that scene within the nursery actual? Effectively, I will break it down for you,’ she mentioned. ‘Did that ever occur? No method. I’m not that horny, I want I used to be.’
Nadine theorized that the nursery scene was possible Jordan’s ‘fantasy of what he needed her to be like,’ because the film was based mostly off of an autobiography he wrote of the identical title.
‘There have been cameras within the room,’ she continued. ‘However I didn’t carry out that sexual seductive act in the direction of him.’