John Stamos is making an effort to assist clear fellow actor Lori Loughlin’s title 5 years after she served jail time for her involvement in a nationwide school admissions scandal.
Showing on the “Good Guys” podcast Monday, Stamos defended his former “Full House” co-star and longtime pal as “a saint” whereas deeming her estranged husband, Mossimo Giannulli, a “terrible narcissist” and an “asshole.”
“Forty years I’ve known her, and you know, you can see through people after a few years … this woman’s a saint,” he mentioned. “I’m just heartbroken for her right now. I really tried to be there for her at this time.”
Addressing the scandal immediately, he added, “I’m not going to debate whether she had much to do with it or not ― I know she didn’t. He dragged her through that [and] she goes to fucking prison for this asshole for three months.”
Stamos and Loughlin are greatest recognized for his or her portrayals of Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky, respectively, on “Full House,” which aired on ABC from 1988 to 1995.
The pair reprised their roles on the Netflix revival collection “Fuller House,” which ran from 2016 to 2020.
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The same year that “Fuller House” wrapped, Loughlin and Giannulli pleaded responsible to costs of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud for his or her roles in “securing the fraudulent admission” of their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose, to the College of Southern California.
On the time, prosecutors described Giannulli, a clothier, as “the more active participant in the scheme” and famous Loughlin “took a less active role, but was nonetheless fully complicit.” Giannulli was sentenced to 5 months in jail, whereas Loughlin acquired a two-month sentence.
Earlier this month, Individuals reported that Giannulli and Loughlin had separated after 27 years of marriage.
Stamos has defended Loughlin on earlier events. “She wasn’t really the architect of any of it,” he advised Dax Shepard on a 2022 episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast. “She didn’t know what was going on.”
In his “Good Guys” appearance, Stamos said Loughlin is “devastated” by the demise of her marriage, noting: “I just hate to see her go through this, I really do.”
As for Giannulli, he added, “I pray that he realizes that what he had was everything anyone could ever hope for, and that he gets some help. He’s a terrible narcissist, and I don’t think you ever get out of that.”
Watch an “Entertainment Tonight” report on John Stamos’ “Good Guys” podcast appearance below.
