John Stamos minimized the role his “Full House” co-star, Lori Loughlin, played in the huge college admissions scandal in a latest podcast interview.
“I’m going to say this, and she or he said I could. She wasn’t really the architect of any of it — she was in the way in which background,” Stamos said of his TV wife’s involvement within the criminal conspiracy that sent her to prison for nearly two months.
“She didn’t know what was occurring.”
Stamos, 59, spoke highly of his former castmate — who pleaded guilty to bribing her daughters’ way into the University of Southern California — on Monday’s episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast, per People Magazine.
“You said some very nice stuff about her,” Stamos told host Dax Shepard. “We talked last night about you. It was something that you just were saying about the way you hate when people bring her up because should you defend her then people get mad. In case you don’t defend her, you then feel bad because she’s a fantastic person.”
The “Big Shot” actor said Loughlin has done her best to make amends.
“She also paid a variety of money. She arrange a university fund for youths, and she or he went to f—ing jail, man.”
Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were arrested in March 2019 for his or her participation within the scam.
The couple each pleaded guilty a 12 months later to at least one count 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 nearly two months in prison at the tip of 2020. Giannulli was sentenced to 5 months — but was released early in April 2021, ending his term in home confinement.
Since leaving prison in December 2020, Loughlin has resumed her TV profession.