Sherri Shepherd didn’t let herself be fooled by a recent religious belief that was trending on social media because she had already been burned by it.
Shepherd explained during her talk show on Wednesday that a paster in South Africa said Jesus came to him in a dream and said he was going to return to Earth on Sept. 23 to bring his true believers to heaven. This sent TikTok into a frenzy as followers of Christ started to prepare for the “Rapture.”
Despite the actress-comedian admitting that she believes in this Christian phenomenon, she also said she didn’t fall for it after being burned in the past.
“I have been through this before,” Shepherd, 58, told her audience. “I used to be in a religion that told me that the Rapture was coming. They told us to get our house in order. And I said, ‘Why? I’m not going to need a house where I am going. I don’t need those worldly possessions.’”
Under this belief, the “Sherri” host ignored her financial obligations.
“I didn’t pay my bills. I didn’t pay my taxes. I did not pay my traffic tickets because why would I pay anything when the world’s about to end?,” Shepherd said. “My registration had been expired for two years. I had seriously $10,000 worth of unpaid moving violations.”
Despite the traffic citations, the host didn’t show up to court, joking that “Jesus don’t care about no parking tickets!”
Unlucky for Shepherd, said she “the world never ended,” and she “went to jail.”
“I went to jail for eight days. And because I fell for the Rapture, I became a hardened criminal,” she joked. “So thank God we are all still here.”
The Rapture is a Christian belief that entails that all true believers will meet Jesus Christ and go to heaven. Those who are “saved” will ascend, while others left on Earth will face a period of tribulation before the Second Coming of Christ.
While the term “rapture” isn’t in the Bible, the belief is based on interpretations of passages such as 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17, where Paul describes believers being “caught up” to meet the Lord.
A prediction that the Rapture would occur Tuesday spread through social media in recent days, The New York Times reported. The hashtag #rapture has been used in over 361,000 TikTok videos to date. Some of the clips endorsed the prediction, while many others made fun of it.
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