Olivia Jade Giannulli, the daughter of former Fuller House actress Lori Loughlin and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, is set to break her silence on Tuesday to tell her side of the story for the first time.
This comes as both of her parents are currently in prison on charges related to them paying $500,000 in bribe money to have Olivia Jade and her older sister Isabella admitted to the University of Southern California as members of the crew team, even though neither girl had ever rowed before.
“I’ve watched the show and I think you guys are all amazing and it feels really safe,” Olivia Jade said in a preview for her episode of “Red Table Talk” that was released on Monday. “But it also feels honest and it feels like we’re going to all lay it out here and it’s going to be an open conversation.”
Olivia Jade, 21, went on to tell the show’s host, Jada Pinkett-Smith, in the preview that she’s finally ready to “publicly share my experience for the first time.”
The preview also shows Olivia Jade say that she can understand the scrutiny that she and her family have been under since this scandal broke.
“[Olivia Jade] is now breaking her silence after being caught in the middle of one of the biggest school bribery scandals,” Pinkett-Smith wrote alongside the preview. “Now that her parents Lori Laughlin and Mossimo Giannulli are serving short prison terms for their participation in the scandal … Olivia Jade felt it was time to speak.”
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Loughlin pled guilty earlier this year to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, while Giannulli pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud as well as to to honest services wire and mail fraud.
The former “Fuller House” star took a deal in which she would serve serve two months and pay a $150,000 fine along with two years of supervised release and 100 hours of community service. Her husband deal involved him serving five months in prison, paying a $250,000 fine with two years of supervised release and 250 hours of community service.
While Loughlin was initially facing forty years in prison, she began her sentence at the end of October and is due to be released around Christmas.
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