Lori Loughlin prison scandal
By Sissy15
@sissy15 (13365)
United States
July 23, 2026 12:28am CST
As many know, Lori Loughlin, known as Aunt Becky on Full House and, much later Fuller House went to prison about 6 years ago for a college admissions scandal. She and her husband bought their daughters' way into college. It doesn't sound like such a big deal until you think about the poor kid who lost their spot because of what they did. There are children who genuinely deserve to go to college and work hard to go, and she paid her daughters' way. I understand as a parent wanting to give your child every advantage, but not at the expense of someone who deserves something they worked hard for.
He daughters didn't even end up graduating from college, and from my understanding, they wanted no part of college, and they ended up having a lot of people hate them because of what their parents did. I don't know or remember all of the details, but I do know that what Lori and her husband did was wrong.
Lori only spent two months in prison for her part in it, but she was fired from the show she was on and was an outcast for a while, but she really only got a slap on the writst compared to what an ordinary person would get if they tried to break the law, that said the average person doesn't have the money to do the kind of thing she did.
The thing is, I still kind of like Lori. I am mad at what she did, but I can understand she wanted the best for her children. I just hate that she was so selfish to give her daughters something they didn't even want that she took a spot from someone who genuinely deserved it.
Lori has started bouncing back recently and has been getting her career back. To be fair, she did a pretty white-collar crime, and it wasn't like she did a violent crime. It was still wrong, but I don't think she deserves to be beaten up for it the rest of her life. I think as long as she learned something from it and works hard to be a better person, she deserves a second chance, but that's only my opinion. I can't say everyone would say the same thing. I really hope she learned her lesson.
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@sissy15 (13365)
• United States
23 Jul
I agree. Money can change people. Rich people often forget where they came from if they didn't always have money, and if they did, they often grow up with a sense of entitlement. You can't understand the average person if you haven't lived the life of an average person. Everyone has struggles, but it's usually a lot harder on people who don't have money. I have coworkers who had completely different experiences and lifestyles than I did. Between the three of us, I grew up with the least amount of money. One had a much more privileged lifestyle, but she doesn't act like it, but there are times I do think she doesn't truly understand what it's like to not have money or have anyone to bail her out. She'll say she's broke because she's living on her own, but he has a dad that will bail her out if she really needs it, a lot of people don't have that. Another coworker lost her dad in high school, so her life was difficult because her mom was raising her on one income plus whatever her dad left behind in insurance and things, but she still financially struggled less than I did as a kid, but I was fortunate enough to still have my dad. My point is that you can see the different ways money can make or break someone's life. I just see very different financial struggles between the three of us and how we grew up, and then you have the rich who completely lose base with what it's like to not have money, and they do stupid things. I just hope she learned her lesson. She paid for what she did in multiple ways.
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@sissy15 (13365)
• United States
23 Jul
I agree. I was happy to see her making a comeback in television. Had she done something more terrible, I'd have different things to say. Hollywood is often so unforgiving. If you mess up in any way, people hold it over your head forever, no matter what it was. It's really difficult to come back after any sort of controversy, which is sad because it leaves no room for human error. It's people saying people can't or don't change, which isn't true. People change all of the time, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. People learn and grow through experiences, and I hate that people are so difficult.
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@AmbiePam (124764)
• United States
24 Jul
She presented her daughters as being in the rowing team, and that’s how they were said to have gotten their scholarships. Now, were they really taking a spot away from some poor girl who was going to row her way into a scholarship? Puh-lease. I’m saving my outrage. Felicity Huffman got busted for the same thing, but she didn’t get the hate Lori did. Not to mention Dr. Dre did the same thing, and no one said a thing. She was wrong, but Chris Brown was forgiven for beating Rhianna faster than Lori was forgiven. Mike Tyson served time for rape, and he’s greeted like a hero.
I like Lori Loughlin, and while she was dumb and wrong, she was just who actually got caught!
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@sissy15 (13365)
• United States
24 Jul
I don't disagree; I think anyone and everyone who does something like that should pay the price, and if anyone should have been cancelled, it's Chris Brown. I think she could have had it worse, but that said, it's not fair that we choose one person to hate on while others are getting away with more. I don't think she did the worst thing imaginable, but I do think she deserved to pay for it. I also think anyone who does that kind of thing deserves to pay for it, and as long as they do their time, I feel like people need to forgive them and let them get their lives back. Martha Stewart went to prison and came back out on top; I mean, she isn't as popular as she used to be, but Martha still isn't suffering. I just think about the different standards we hold for different people. Unless they murdered or injured someone or genuinely seem like a crappy person, I feel like they should be forgiven as long as they learned from it. As a parent, I understand wanting what's best for your children, but I also don't think what she did was right, and she had a pretty fair punishment other than the media backlash. I don't think people cancelling her over a mistake made in the name of loving and wanting what was best for her children is right, but I do think we can be angry and want her to serve her time and then come back learning from her mistakes and welcoming her back onto our television. I think two things can be true: you can want her to pay for her mistakes while also understanding she's human and forgiving her for those mistakes. I also think her husband had more to do with it than she did, but I can't be certain of that. They split up after this; I can only imagine everything that went down played a large part in that. I do think that there were people who have gotten rowing scholarships that didn't have parents with money who could have used that scholarship. I have met people who did rowing. My niece did rowing in college.
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