{"id":70015,"date":"2020-12-09T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=70015"},"modified":"2020-12-09T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T00:31:09","slug":"olivia-jade-im-ashamed-embarrassed-college-admissions-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=70015","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Jade: I\u2019m ashamed and embarrassed by college admissions scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Jade Giannulli, the 21-year-old daughter of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, has finally\u00a0broken her silence\u00a0on the college admissions scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing\u00a0on Facebook Watch\u2019s \u201cRed Table Talk,\u201d\u00a0the former YouTuber admitted she was \u201cashamed\u201d by the ordeal that landed both of her parents\u00a0in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt so ashamed and embarrassed \u2026 although I didn\u2019t really 100 percent understand what had just happened because there was a lot that, when I was applying, I was not fully aware of what was going on,\u201d she told co-hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris. \u201cWhen I got home [from spring break], I just felt so ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<p>Olivia said she was \u201ctoo embarrassed\u201d to return to the University of Southern California, where she and her sister, Isabella Rose,\u00a0had been enrolled\u00a0after being accepted as rowing recruits despite having never participated in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI shouldn\u2019t have been there in the first place, clearly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"box shadow  \"><div class=\"box-inner-block\"><i class=\"fa tie-shortcode-boxicon\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: currentColor; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fredtabletalk%2Fvideos%2F298151528184131%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Olivia, who hasn\u2019t spoken to her parents since\u00a0they\u2019ve entered prison\u00a0this fall because of a COVID-19 quarantine rule, said she doesn\u2019t deserve pity and only wants a chance to own her mistakes publicly. Her ignorance, she said, explained why she didn\u2019t understand how her family\u2019s decisions were so offensive to many.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cA huge part of having privilege is not knowing you have privilege, so when it was happening, it didn\u2019t feel wrong,\u201d she said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t feel like, \u2018That\u2019s not fair. A lot of people don\u2019t have that.\u2019 \u2026 I was in my own little bubble. Focusing on my comfortable world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of the widespread college admissions scandal,\u00a0Loughlin and her husband earlier this year pleaded guilty\u00a0to paying $500,000 to William \u201cRick\u201d Singer to secure their daughters\u2019 admission to USC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Olivia-Jade-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Olivia-Jade-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Olivia-Jade-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Olivia-Jade-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Olivia-Jade-2-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Lori Loughlin poses with her daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDesperate Housewives\u201d star Felicity Huffman\u00a0served 11 days of a two-week jail sentence\u00a0in 2019 for her role in the college admissions scandal.<\/p>\n<p>To Olivia and her friends in their wealthy \u201cbubble,\u201d donating money as a means to gain admissions was \u201cnormal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really can\u2019t be excused,\u201d Olivia said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Banfield-Norris wasn\u2019t willing to excuse the family\u2019s behavior either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, you\u2019re going to be OK,\u201d Banfield-Norris said. \u201c\u2026 There\u2019s so many of us that it is not going to be that situation. It makes it difficult right now for me to care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire ordeal forced Olivia and her sister to reframe their perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a really eye-opening experience for me \u2026 and although there\u2019s a lot of negative around it and there\u2019s a lot of mistakes and wrongdoings, it\u2019s led me to have a completely different outlook on a lot of situations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite acknowledging she may not have deserved a spot at USC, she did defend her work ethic when she was a student.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked my ass off in high school,\u201d Olivia said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t slacking in high school. I don\u2019t want to discredit myself \u2026 I put a lot of trust into a person who claimed their profession was college counseling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That being said, she knows she has far to go in the court of public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI totally understand if people aren\u2019t ready to jump onboard with me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Jade Giannulli, the 21-year-old daughter of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, has finally\u00a0broken her silence\u00a0on the college admissions scandal. Appearing\u00a0on Facebook Watch\u2019s \u201cRed Table Talk,\u201d\u00a0the former YouTuber admitted she was \u201cashamed\u201d by the ordeal that landed both of her parents\u00a0in prison. \u201cI felt so ashamed and embarrassed \u2026 although I didn\u2019t really 100 percent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[391],"tags":[2809,3576],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Olivia Jade: I\u2019m ashamed and embarrassed by college admissions scandal - TheFastFashion.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=70015\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Olivia Jade: I\u2019m ashamed and embarrassed by college admissions scandal - TheFastFashion.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Olivia Jade Giannulli, the 21-year-old daughter of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, has finally\u00a0broken her silence\u00a0on the college admissions scandal. 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