Olivia Jade is speaking out after being “publicly shamed” for her parent’s involvement in the college admissions scandal, following the release of Netflix’s documentary “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal.”
The YouTube star and daughter of "Full House" star Lori Loughlin and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, updated her fans on how she has been dealing with the public scrutiny, HuffPost reported.
The popular beauty vlogger spoke on TikTok about a conversation she had with a “very inspirational woman," saying “We were talking about being in the public and being publicly shamed, and I was like, ‘Well, my situation doesn’t even compare. I’m not going to even start to compare it to yours,’” she said. “And she looked at me and she said, ‘Olivia, it doesn’t matter if I’m drowning in 60 feet of water and you’re drowning in 30. We’re both still drowning.’”
In May, Loughlin and Giannulli admitted to paying $500,000 to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California as crew recruits. Loughlin was sentenced to two months in federal prison, and Giannulli was sentenced to five months.
Olivia Jade, 21, says “I think we’re all very quick to judge. I think we’re all very quick to put people down.”
She left her fans with an inspiring message.
“If your feelings are hurting, or [your feelings] are valid to you, they’re valid,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if someone is going through worse. You’re allowed to have a hard time in this world.”
In December, Olivia Jade sat down with Jada Pinkett Smith on her “Red Table Talk” Facebook show to apologize for her family’s role in the scandal.
“I think that what hasn’t been super public is that there is no justifying or excusing what happened. What happened was wrong and I think every single person in my family can be like, ‘That was messed up. That was a big mistake.”
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