John Stamos defends ex-con ‘Full House’ co-star Lori Loughlin: ‘She went to f–king jail, man’

Actor and musician John Stamos stands up for his former castmate Lori Loughlin on the "Armchair Professional" podcast.
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John Stamos minimized the function his “Full Home” co-star, Lori Loughlin, performed within the huge school admissions scandal in a brand new podcast interview.

“I'm going to say this, and he or she mentioned I might. She wasn’t actually the architect of any of it — she was in the best way background,” Stamos mentioned of his TV spouse’s involvement within the legal conspiracy that despatched her to jail for almost two months.

“She didn’t know what was happening.”

Stamos, 59, spoke extremely of his former castmate — who pleaded responsible to bribing her daughters’ method into the College of Southern California — on Monday’s episode of the “Armchair Professional” podcast, per Folks Journal.

“You mentioned some very nice stuff about her,” Stamos instructed host Dax Shepard. “We talked final evening about you. It was one thing that you just had been saying about the way you hate when individuals deliver her up as a result of for those who defend her then individuals get mad. For those who don’t defend her, you then really feel dangerous as a result of she’s an important individual.”

Stamos and Loughlin, who starred on “Full Home,” have remained good mates through the years.

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The “Large Shot” actor mentioned Loughlin has performed her finest to make amends.

“She additionally paid some huge cash. She arrange a school fund for youths, and he or she went to f—ing jail, man.”

Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, had been arrested in March 2019 for his or her participation within the rip-off.

Loughlin and her husband pretended their daughters had been athletes to achieve admission into the College of Southern California.

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The couple every pleaded responsible a yr later to at least one rely of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud for paying a $500,000 bribe to get their two daughters, Isabella and Olivia Jade, accepted into USC as bogus crew recruits.

Loughlin served almost two months in jail on the finish of 2020. Giannulli was sentenced to 5 months — however was launched early in April 2021, ending his time period in house confinement.

Since leaving jail in December 2020, Loughlin has resumed her TV profession.