John Stamos is defending his former “Full House” costar Lori Loughlin after her separation from husband Mossimo Giannulli.
“40 years I’ve known [Lori]. You can see through people after a few years, but this woman’s a saint. It’s hard to see, I’m just heartbroken for her right now,” Stamos, 62, said during a Monday, Oct. 20, appearance on Josh Peck’s “Good Guys” podcast.
Stamos and Loughlin, 61, played love interests Jesse Katsopolis and Rebecca Donaldson on “Full House,” which aired on ABC from 1987-1995. News broke earlier this month that Loughlin and Giannulli, 62, had separated after 27 years of marriage, and Stamos thinks Giannulli is to blame.
“I know [Lori’s] just devastated. 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 [that’s] blowing up her family this way, I just hate to see her go through this,” the actor said.
Stamos went on to call Giannulli a “terrible narcissist.” He believes that Giannulli was behind the decision to pay $500,000 in bribes to have his and Loughlin’s daughters, Isabella Rose and Olivia Jade, accepted to USC as members of the rowing team although neither of them were rowers. Both Loughlin and Giannulli served time in prison for their involvement in the college admissions scandal.
“With the college scandal, I’m not gonna debate whether [Lori] had much to do with it or not. I know she didn’t,” Stamos claimed. “I know that she took a lot of the heat that her husband brought to that family. Mossimo, never been a big fan of that guy.”
Stamos then recalled Loughlin being in the dark when the scandal first made headlines.
“I called her. She was in Canada doing something for Hallmark [Channel] at the time. … She goes, ‘Mossimo handles all that stuff,’” Stamos said. “She goes to f–ing prison for this a–hole for three months. … She didn’t deserve to be dragged through that. I believe — I know for a fact — it was all him.”
Many “Full House” fans have long speculated that there was a real-life romantic spark between Loughlin and Stamos. Before he married Caitlin McHugh in 2018, Stamos said during a 2013 interview with celebrity.land Live that Loughlin “could be the one that got away.”
During Monday’s episode of “Good Guys,” Stamos elaborated on the comments, comparing Loughlin and his first wife, Rebecca Romijn, to different versions of Sandy from the musical “Grease.”
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“Lori was Sandy before the leather, and Rebecca Romijn was Sandy in the leather … and there was a moment where I had the choice [between them], I think,” Stamos said. “And I was more into the rebellious [thing]. Lori was so sweet and I loved working with her, but she was too nice for me.”
While things never worked out for them romantically, Stamos said that he’s been there for Loughlin amid her separation, which his wife has been “good about.”
“I told [Lori], I said look, ‘Whatever negativity or hardships you’ve been through in your life, it’s connected to this guy,’” Stamos said, noting that he will “never talk to” Mossimo again. “Whatever he did to her, it busted her up to the core. She put up with a lot over the years with this guy. … I think when you have a wife like that and a family, how do you bust that up?”
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