John Stamos is making an effort to help clear fellow actor Lori Loughlin’s name five years after she served jail time for her involvement in a nationwide college admissions scandal.
Appearing on the “Good Guys” podcast Monday, Stamos defended his former “Full House” co-star and longtime friend as “a saint” while deeming her estranged husband, Mossimo Giannulli, a “terrible narcissist” and an “asshole.”
“Forty years I’ve known her, and you know, you can see through people after a few years … this woman’s a saint,” he said. “I’m just heartbroken for her right now. I really tried to be there for her at this time.”
Addressing the scandal directly, he added, “I’m not going to debate whether she had much to do with it or not ― I know she didn’t. He dragged her through that [and] she goes to fucking prison for this asshole for three months.”
Stamos and Loughlin are best known for their portrayals of Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky, respectively, on “Full House,” which aired on ABC from 1988 to 1995.
The pair reprised their roles on the Netflix revival series “Fuller House,” which ran from 2016 to 2020.
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The same year that “Fuller House” wrapped, Loughlin and Giannulli pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud for their roles in “securing the fraudulent admission” of their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose, to the University of Southern California.
At the time, prosecutors described Giannulli, a fashion designer, as “the more active participant in the scheme” and noted Loughlin “took a less active role, but was nonetheless fully complicit.” Giannulli was sentenced to five months in prison, while Loughlin received a two-month sentence.
Earlier this month, People reported that Giannulli and Loughlin had separated after 27 years of marriage.
Stamos has defended Loughlin on previous occasions. “She wasn’t really the architect of any of it,” he told Dax Shepard on a 2022 episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast. “She didn’t know what was going on.”
In his “Good Guys” appearance, Stamos said Loughlin is “devastated” by the demise of her marriage, noting: “I just hate to see her go through this, I really do.”
As for Giannulli, he added, “I pray that he realizes that what he had was everything anyone could ever hope for, and that he gets some help. He’s a terrible narcissist, and I don’t think you ever get out of that.”
Watch an “Entertainment Tonight” report on John Stamos’ “Good Guys” podcast appearance below.
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