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Earlier this month, we learned that Full House actress Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli had separated after 28 years of marriage. At the time, all we knew was what Loughlin’s representative confirmed to multiple outlets — that the former couple were “living apart” and that there were “no legal proceedings underway.” But a few days later, Us Weekly claimed Loughlin is “devastated” by the split. Now, her friend and former co-star John Stamos appears to be backing her up and also suggesting that things did not end amicably.
On Monday, Stamos, who starred alongside Loughlin on the ’90s sitcom for eight years, sat down with the Good Guys podcast (which is randomly co-hosted by Josh Peck) to chat about his longtime friend, whom he called “a saint.” “I’m just heartbroken for her right now,” Stamos said of Loughlin’s separation. “She’s just devastated. For a girl who has lived her life really well, a good person, a good mother, a good wife — I know all this for a fact — to be thrown into this separation and exploding, blowing up her family this way … I just hate to see her go through this. I really do.”
Stamos also had some choice words for Loughlin’s ex, Giannulli, a “terrible narcissist” who he never plans to speak to again. “I said, ‘Look, all the negativity or hard hardships that you’ve been through in your life is connected to this guy,’” Stamos said. “Whatever he did to her, it busted her up to the core. She put up with a lot over the years with this guy … I mean, I know a lot, and I was by her side through a lot of it. She is an angel, and she always made things better. She cleaned everything up.”
One such “hardship,” of course, was the family’s involvement in the infamous Varsity Blues scandal of 2019. Loughlin and Giannulli were accused of paying $500,000 to get their daughters — now 27-year-old actress Isabella Rose and 26-year-old influencer Olivia Jade — admitted to the University of Southern California by pretending they were collegiate rowers (they were not). The couple both pleaded guilty to wire and mail fraud in 2020. Loughlin served two months in federal prison, while Giannulli served five.
Stamos suggested that the admissions scandal was largely Giannulli’s fault, declaring, “I’m not going to debate whether she had much to do with it or not … I know she didn’t,” and observing that Loughlin went “to fucking prison for this asshole.” “I pray for this guy,” he said of Giannulli. “I pray that he gets a hold of whatever hole that he’s trying to fill, however he’s trying to fill it, and I pray that he realizes that what he had was everything that anyone could ever hope for and that he gets some help.”
Meanwhile, I am praying that things start looking up for Loughlin. At least she has an ally with great hair in her corner?
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