Have mercy! That’s John Stamos’s message to anyone who disses Lori Loughlin, Aunt Becky to his Uncle Jesse back in their Full House days.
Loughlin was convicted for her part in a college admissions scandal back in 2019, and even did time for her crime. But “she didn’t deserve to be dragged through that,” Stamos told Josh Peck and Ben Soffer this week on their Good Guys podcast.
Instead, Stamos pointed the finger at Mossimo Giannulli, the man Loughlin recently divorced. When the Full House star called his TV wife during the early days of the scandal, she claimed ignorance about what was happening. “Mossimo handles all that stuff,” she told Stamos.
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That was all Stamos needed to hear. “She’s not a liar, you know,” he said. “She’s a saint.”
As for Mossimo, the former Target fashion magnate? “I know for a fact it was all him.”
According to Stamos, Loughlin was oblivious to most of the uproar around the admissions controversy. Of course, she realized things were serious when she got arrested.
“She goes to fucking prison for this asshole,” Stamos fumed, using language that would make Stephanie and DJ blush. But the experience didn’t seem to embitter her. When Stamos asked Loughlin about doing hard time in the pen, she replied in what Stamos called typical Lori fashion. “You know, I met a lot of nice ladies in there,” she said. “We have a book club.”
“That’s her,” Stamos marveled, wowed by Loughlin’s resilience.
It’s not the first time Stamos has applauded Loughlin for how she handled the scandal. “People make mistakes, some big, some small,” he told Howard Stern in 2023. “It’s how you deal with the accountability afterward, and the way she dealt with it was better than I could have done, for sure. She stood up, and she fiercely defended her family.”
Now Loughlin’s family is breaking apart, and Stamos is bummed. “I know she’s just devastated,” he told Peck and Soffer. “And for a girl who has lived her life really well, a good person, a good mother, a good wife — I know all this for a fact — to be thrown into this separation and exploding, blowing up her family this way. I just hate to see her go through this.”
Stamos admitted there was a brief moment in his history with Loughlin when they could have started a family of their own. The problem was that Loughlin reminded Stamos of the wholesome character Sandy in Grease. Eventual partner Rebecca Romijn was also like Sandy, but the leather-clad, transformed version who whispers, “Tell me about it, stud.”
“I was more into the rebellious,” Stamos admitted. “Lori was so sweet, and I loved working with her, but she was too nice for me.”
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