John Stamos recalls hearing about Lori Loughlin’s involvement in the college admissions scandal — and the conversation he had with her when it started.
In his recently released memoir, “If You Would Have Tell Me,” Stamos, 60, described calling his former “Full House” co-star, 59, about the controversy before it became official, according to an excerpt from the “New York Post”. “.
Oddly enough, Stamos said that Lori struck a curiously casual tone as they discussed the big legal issue.
Lori also acted strangely “laissez-faire” when she suspected her phone had been tapped after Stamos noticed a “clicking” sound in the background of their conversation.
Eventually, Lori and her husband Mossimo Gianulli, 60, served prison terms for their involvement in the scandal. But despite her decline, Stamos still considers Lori a “cherished” friend.
“Do you watch the news?” John Stamos recalls the moment he learned his ‘Full House’ co-star Lori Loughlin was involved in the college admissions scandal; Loughlin pictured leaving a Boston courthouse in 2019 with husband Mossimo Giannulli (pictured behind her, right).
In his book, Stamos writes: “In March 2019, around 5:30 a.m., I received a strange text message from my good friend Roger Lodge.”
He asks if Lori is okay. I snapped back, ‘Why, what’s going on?’ Something about a university scandal,” he said. “I started Googling but couldn’t find much about it. I knew she was working in Canada, so I called to see how she was doing.”
Oddly enough, John says that Lori was pretty relaxed about the whole controversy when he found her.
“Oh, yeah, I’m not sure,” she replied as casually as if I had just asked her if Nicky and Alex had eaten all their vegetables,” he said, referring to the names of their fictional children on Full House.
Even when Lori suspected her phone line had been tapped, her tone remained.
“I’ve seen a few emails from lawyers to Moss lately, but I stay out of it.” Before I can process her answer, I hear a strange click on the phone line. When I asked her about it, she resumed her laissez-faire tone: “Oh, maybe they’re tapping my phone,” he said.
Shortly after Stamos rang, the controversy became the biggest headline in the news.
“I immediately texted Lori: ‘Are you watching the news?'” he recalls. “An FBI agent announces the biggest college admissions scandal the Justice Department has ever dealt with. It involves bribing prestigious colleges for fake student admissions. She asks: “Which channel?” I write back in capital letters: “EVERY CHANNEL!”
Out now! Stamos just released his memoir, If You Would Have Tell Me,
Not so elegant: Lori and her husband pleaded guilty in May 2020 to falsely identifying their daughters Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli as recruits for the University of Southern California team, even though neither had ever did not participate in the sport.
However, Stamos did not let the scandal destroy their relationship and he said she remains a “valued” friend.
“Lori Loughlin remains a dear friend to this day. We weathered storms together and stood by each other despite life’s obstacles. “We saw ourselves at our worst,” he said.
“I experienced moments where giving up would have been the easiest way out for Lori. She could shift the blame and let her family, her marriage and her life fall apart. But she didn’t,” he wrote.
“No matter how hard she was hit, how desperately everyone tried to dismiss her and throw her into the group of brutal criminals, she stood her ground and protected her daughters from the filth that was thrown at them day after day. .”
Still a fan! However, Stamos did not let the scandal destroy their relationship and he said she remains a “valued” friend
Stepping out: Stamos was pictured outside The View in New York on Tuesday
Available now: Stamos’ memoir hits shelves October 24
Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli were both arrested in March 2019 for their involvement in the college admissions scandal orchestrated by Rick Singer.
Both pleaded guilty in May 2020 to falsely identifying their daughters Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli as recruits for the University of Southern California team, even though neither had ever participated in the sport.
Ultimately, the actress served nearly two months in a low-security prison between October and December 2020, agreed to pay a $150,000 fine and perform 150 hours of community service, while Giannulli served nearly five months from November 2020 to 2020 bars, because she was fed up. April 2021.
Stamos has already defended Lori in the wake of the scandal, claiming last year that she was only a peripheral figure in the scandal.
On Dax Shepherd’s Armchair Expert podcast, he said: “I’ll say it, and she said I can.” She wasn’t really the architect of anything; She was in the background,” he claimed. “She didn’t know what was going on.”
Stamos also said that punishing criminals is reason enough for people to give her a break now.
“She paid a lot of money too. She started a college fund for kids and went to jail, man,” he added.
Source: Daily Mail
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