Actress Lori Loughlin, foreground, and her husband Mossimo Giannulli leave Moakley Federal Courthouse after a brief hearing on August 27, 2019 in Boston, MA. Perhaps signaling Lori Loughlin’s acceptance back into the Hollywood fold, the disgraced “Full House” star joined Oprah Winfrey, Sharon Stone and Whoopi Goldberg and other celebrities on a Los Angeles-based telethon Saturday, talking about her weekly commitment to delivering food to people in need since leaving federal prison.
“It is a community, it is a family, and all the people that work here are just so wonderful. They have welcomed me with such open arms at a time when I was feeling particularly down and broken,” said Loughlin, wearing the bright blue T-shirt with the Project Angel Food logo. “It’s been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life,” Loughlin said. “I have the same delivery route every week. I see the same people. They are often unable to leave their homes. They are somewhat isolated. There’s just that human connection and spending time with them, asking ‘How are you doing? How are you feeling?'”
The Hollywood power couple were accused of paying $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters, Isabella and Olivia Jade, fraudulently admitted to the University of Southern California on the pretense of being talented crew athletes. The couple spent more than a year fighting the charges and proclaiming their innocence, until they finally relented to pressure from federal prosecutors and took a plea deal.