John Stamos praised his former TV wife, Lori Loughlin, in a new podcast interview, as he called her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, a “narcissist” and an “asshole.”
Loughlin and Giannulli reportedly split earlier this month after 28 years of marriage.
“I’m heartbroken for her right now,” Stamos said on the Good Guys podcast Monday. Stamos blamed Giannulli for the college admissions scandal that landed the couple in prison. “I know for a fact it was all him,” he said, and “she’s going to fucking jail for that asshole.”
The Daily Beast has contacted Giannulli for comment.
Loughlin and Giannulli were indicted in 2019 for their participation in a college admissions bribery scheme, known as Operation Varsity Blues, aimed at getting their daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose into the University of Southern California. In addition to the prison sentence, Loughlin was also fined and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service for the couples’ efforts to secure a college spot for their daughter. She was on parole until December 2022. Giannulli also served five months in prison and was also fined and given probation.
“He’s a terrible narcissist,” he continued, and Loughlin “has put up with a lot over the years.” Stamos claimed that when he called Loughlin to check in when the scandal came to light, Loughlin told him, “Mossimo is taking care of all that.”
Stamos and Loughlin played Rebecca Donaldson and Jesse Katsopolis in Full house from 1987 to 1995. “You can see through people after a few years. This woman is a saint,” Stamos continued Monday. “She didn’t deserve to be dragged into this situation…And I just hate to see her go through this.”
Stamos has always had nothing but the most complimentary things to say about Loughlin, even going so far as to say in 2013 that he and Loughlin could have dated if things had gone differently. He told HuffPost Live that year: “No disrespect to her family and her husband now, I would say she might be the one that got away.” » Loughlin made similar comments to HuffPost Live that year. “We have chemistry. I was actually married at the time I was doing (Full house), then I got divorced. And then when I got divorced, he met Rebecca (Romijn) and got married, so our timing was really bad.
She added: “So I don’t think it ever really occurred to us that it would be something more.” The two remained friends, however, and Stamos said he called her after she got out of prison. “In typical Lori fashion, I said, ‘How was it?’ She said, “You know, I met a lot of nice women there. We have a book club. It’s her!'” he said. “She’s an angel.”