Lori Loughlin’s daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli breaking her silence on Jada Pinkett Smith’s ‘Red Table Talk’: ‘I can understand how wrong it is’
Lori Loughlin’s daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli is breaking her silence after being caught up in the college admissions bribery scandal that landed her parents in prison.
The YouTube star is due to appear on Jada Pinkett Smith’s online chat show “Red Table Talk” Tuesday, Pinkett Smith revealed Monday.
“Olivia Jade felt it was time to speak. Join us at the Red Table,” Pinkett Smith tweeted.
“I can understand how wrong it is. We had the means to do something, and we completely took it and ran with it,” Olivia Jade, 21, said in a promotional clip of Tuesday’s show obtained Monday by TMZ.com.
Olivia Jade felt it was time to speak. Join us at the Red Table TOMORROW ❣️
— Jada Pinkett Smith (@jadapsmith) December 7, 2020
The daughter of Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli was a top beauty vlogger with 1.9 million YouTube subscribers when her “Full House” star mom and fashion designer dad were arrested in March 2019 along with other parents caught in the national sting dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues.”
Federal prosecutors said Loughlin and Giannulli paid $500,000 to get Olivia Jade and her older sister Isabella, 22, into the University of Southern California as fake rowing recruits.
In the wake of the arrests, cosmetics retailer Sephora and hair care brand TRESemmé dropped Olivia Jade from lucrative endorsement deals.
She stepped away from the public eye for months, stopped attending USC and slowly started posting again on social media leading up to her first media interview.
Her parents, meanwhile, fought the charges for more than a year before they eventually caved and pleaded guilty last May.
Loughlin, 56, admitted she conspired to commit mail and wire fraud. She was sentenced to two months behind bars and surrendered to prison officials in Dublin, Calif., Oct. 30.
Giannnulli, 57, pleaded guilty to a more serious charge of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud.
He was booked into federal prison in Lompoc, Calif., last month to begin serving a five-month sentence.
