EntertainmentLori Loughlin Is 'Devastated' Over How Scandal Has Affected Daughters

Loughlin and Giannulli eloped just two days before Thanksgiving. “We had Moss’ best friend and a minister meet us, and we got married at sunrise and then we went to Thanksgiving dinner and we told everybody,” the Fuller House star told Entertainment Tonightin February 2018. She added: “We had talked about doing a wedding and we just thought, ‘Let’s get up and let’s go do it.’” Loughlin was previously married to Michael Burns from 1989 to 1996.

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On the 16th day of the month, Loughlin and Giannulli welcomed their first child together, daughter Bella. “I would say that I am loving but that I am firm,” the proud mom told Us Weekly in 2016. “I would say that … I am available, and they have access to me. I am involved, but I am not hovering. I’m there to guide. I think I’m funny, but they don’t. But I still make that joke. They kind of roll their eyes at me, but I am funny. I’m funny! And they’re like, ‘No, you’re not.’ But anyways, we have fun. We have a good time together.”

Almost exactly one year after the birth of Bella, Loughlin and Giannulli added to their family. Daughter Olivia Jade was born on September 28. “Listen, I am not their friend,” the sitcom star explained to Us in 2016 of her parenting style. “I am here. I am their mother. I’m here to guide them, and I think that is first and foremost. … Look, I try to instill good values and be a good person, and for the most part, I have to say that my girls, they are good people. They are good people. They have good hearts.”

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Loughlin joked about her strong relationship with Giannulli while speaking with Entertainment Tonight. She revealed that for 20 years, the pair had been celebrating their anniversary two days early, and it wasn’t until a friend corrected her that they realized it. “He’s my guy, he’s my person,” the Summerland alum gushed at the time. “It’s communicating, it’s listening, it’s picking and choosing your battles. It’s being flexible, it’s all of that.”

Loughlin and Giannulli were both arrested for their alleged involvement in the college scandal in which they falsified their daughters’ participation on USC’s crew team in a bribe to get her accepted to the school.

The twosome pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges after they rejected a plea deal in April 2019.

The duo celebrated Loughlin’s 55th birthday at church in Beverly Hills in July 2019. A source told Us at the time that the family was “showing a united front on social media,” but they are “still very strained and there’s a lot of deep-rooted hurt.”

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Loughlin and Giannulli returned to court in Boston in August 2019 to attend a hearing regarding the government’s concerns of their lawyers, who previously represented USC in unrelated cases.

Despite the judge’s warnings over the conflict of interest, the duo opted to keep their shared legal team from the firm of Lathan & Watkins.

Insiders told Us exclusively in September 2019 that the pair were having marital issues amid the legal scandal.

“Their daughter Bella is extremely concerned they’re going to get divorced,” one source said, noting that the Loughlin and Giannulli argued over whether they should take a private jet to their recent court acceptance.

“The couple was advised by their lawyers not to,” the source said. “Mossimo insisted, saying it would be a ‘zoo’ if they flew commercial.”

A second source told Us that the actress’ friends “think she should leave him, but Lori refuses and says the ordeal has made them stronger.”