Dolores Catania and Paul “Paulie” Connell’s New Jersey townhouse was recently broken into.

The “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star and her boyfriend detailed the scary ordeal on “Jeff Lewis Live” Monday, saying the home invasion happened while they were up north filming a few scenes for the inaugural season of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Rhode Island.”

“Paul had his phone off, and he was performing for everyone there. He was drinking tequila. And my phone was going off, and I saw it was his son. I always answer for the kids, even if I’m in the middle of filming,” Catania, 54, recalled.

“He goes, ‘Is my dad there? The house just got broken into.'”

Connell admitted that his girlfriend’s “reaction scared the s–t out of” him because she gasped loudly when she typically doesn’t “get

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