John Stamos sides with Lori Loughlin, criticizes her ‘narcissist’ ex-husband
Teddy Grant
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 29: Lori Loughlin and John Stamos attend Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine Benefitting The Scleroderma Research Foundation at Fairmont Century Plaza on October 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
(NewsNation) — John Stamos is coming to the defense of his on-screen wife, Lori Loughlin, amid her divorce from Mossimo Giannulli.
Stamos was on Josh Peck and Ben Soffer’s “Good Guys” podcast, where he called Giannulli a “terrible narcissist” and blamed her ex for Loughlin for being the public face in the college admission scandal that landed the “Full House” actress behind bars.
“With the college scandal… I’m not going to debate whether she had much to do with it or not. I know she didn’t,” Stamos said. “He dragged her through that…and she goes to f—–g prison for this a—–e.”
Lori Loughin going to prison in college admissions scandal
Loughlin and Giannulli were both sentenced to federal prison in 2020 for paying $500,000 to have their children, Olivia Jade and Isabella Giannulli, falsely listed as crew recruits to get them into the University of Southern California, according to Cosmopolitan.
The “Guilty Until Proven Innocent” actress served two months in federal prison, while Giannulli was sentenced to five months.
FILE – In this April 3, 2019, file photo, actress Lori Loughlin, front, and her husband, clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli, left, depart federal court in Boston after a hearing in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. In a court filing on Monday, July 13, 2020, lawyers for the couple, who admitted to paying $500,000 to get their daughters into the University of Southern California as fake crew recruits, asked a judge to lower their bail from $1 million to $100,000, saying they will not flee ahead of their August sentencing in the college admissions bribery case. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
John Stamos attends the Hulu original series premiere of “UnPrisoned” Season 2 at the Midnight Theater on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
FILE – Lori Loughlin, right, poses with Olivia Jade Giannulli at the Women’s Cancer Research Fund’s An Unforgettable Evening in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 27, 2018. Giannulli, the daughter of Loughlin, the “Full House” actor and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, discussed on the Facebook Watch series “Red Table Talk” how she’s been affected by the college admissions scandal involving her parents. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
“All of a sudden (they) split up and I know she’s just devastated,” Stamos said. “For a girl who has lived her life really well, (is) a good person, a good mother, a good wife… to be thrown into this separation… I just hate to see her go through this.”
Loughlin and Giannulli announced they were separating earlier this month after 28 years of marriage.
