John Stamos recalls the conversation he had with Lori Loughlin when college admissions scandal erupted: ‘Are you watching the news?’

John Stamos remembers hearing about Lori Loughlin’s involvement in the college admissions scandal — and the conversation he had with her just as it broke.

In his recently released memoir If You Would Have Told Me, Stamos, 60, described how he called his former Full House co-star, 59, about the controversy before it became official news, according to an excerpt obtained by the New York Post.

Oddly enough, Stamos said Lori adopted an oddly nonchalant tone as they discussed the huge legal issue.

Lori was also strangely “laissez-faire” when she suspected her phone had been tapped after Stamos noticed a “clicking” sound in the background of their conversation.

Ultimately, Lori and her husband Mossimo Gianulli, 60, served prison time for their role in the scandal. But despite her fall from grace, Stamos still considers Lori a “cherished” friend.

In his book, Stamos writes: ‘In March 2019, around 5:30 am, I received a strange text from my good friend Roger Lodge.

He asks if Lori is okay. I hit him back: “Why, what’s going on?” Something about a college scandal,” he said. ‘I started googling, but I couldn’t find much about it. I knew she was working in Canada, so I called to see how she was doing.”

Strangely enough, John says that Lori was quite relaxed about the whole controversy once he got her.

“Oh that, yeah, I’m not sure,” she replies as casually as if I just asked her if Nicky and Alex finished all their vegetables,” he said, referring to the names of their fictional children on Full House.

Even when Lori suspected her phone line had been tapped, her tone remained nonchalant.

“I’ve seen some emails from attorneys to Moss lately, but I’m staying out of it.” Before I can process her answer, I hear a strange clicking sound on the phone line. When I asked her about it, she resumed her laissez-faire tone: “Oh, maybe they’re tapping my phone,” he said.

Shortly after Stamos hung up, the controversy became the biggest story on the news.

“I immediately texted Lori, ‘Are you watching the news?'” he recalled. “An FBI agent announces the largest college admissions scandal ever handled by the Justice Department, involving bribes to prestigious colleges over falsified student acceptances. She asks, “What channel?” I text back in all caps: “EVERY CHANNEL!”

Out now! Stamos just released his memoir, If You Would Have Told Me,

Not so classy: Lori and her husband pleaded guilty in May 2020 to falsely identifying daughters Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli as recruits for the University of Southern California crew team, even though neither has ever competed in the sport

However, Stamos hasn’t allowed the scandal to tear their relationship apart, and he said she remains a “cherished” friend.

“Lori Loughlin is a dear friend to this day. We have weathered storms together and stood by each other’s side despite life’s obstacles. “We have seen each other at our worst,” he said.

“I’ve witnessed moments when giving up could have been the easiest way out for Lori. She could have passed the blame and let her family, marriage and life crumble. But she didn’t,” he wrote.

‘No matter how hard she was hit, how desperate everyone was to fire her and throw her into the gang of brutal criminals, she remained steadfast and protected her daughters from the mud that was thrown at them day in and day out.’

Still a fan! However, Stamos hasn’t allowed the scandal to tear their relationship apart, and he said she remains a ‘cherished’ friend

Getting out: Stamos pictured outside The View in New York on Tuesday

Now available: Stamos’s memoirs hit shelves on October 24

Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli were both arrested in March 2019 for their involvement in the college admissions scandal orchestrated by Rick Singer.

They both pleaded guilty in May 2020 to falsely identifying daughters Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli as recruits for the University of Southern California crew team, even though neither has ever competed in the sport.

Ultimately, the actress served nearly two months in a low-security prison between October and December 2020, agreeing to pay a $150,000 fine and performing 150 hours of community service, while Giannulli spent nearly five months behind bars from November 2020 to 2020 fed up. April 2021.

Stamos has previously defended Lori following the scandal, claiming last year that she was only a peripheral part of the scandal.

Speaking of Dax Shepherd’s Armchair expert podcast, he said, “I’m going to say this, and she said I could. She wasn’t really the architect of it all; she was in the background,” he claimed. “She didn’t know what was going on.”

Stamos also said that the criminal’s punishment was reason enough for people to give her a break now.

‘She also paid a lot of money. She set up a college fund for kids and went to jail, man,” he added.