Lori Loughlin has been reunited with her girls after serving 2 months in prison for the college admissions scandal

On Monday, Full House star Lori Loughlin was released from prison after serving a 2-month sentence for her part in the college admissions scandal that rocked Hollywood. The 56-year-old actress, whom we all got to know as the wholesome Aunt Becky on the family-favourite '80s sitcom alongside John Stamos, Bob Saget, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, paid half a million dollars to get her daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose into the prestigious University of Southern California with fake athletic credentials.

Now, an insider close to the family has revealed that her reunion with Olivia Jade, 20, and Isabella Rose, 21, was a tearful one.

“It’s the end of a very long ordeal," the source told People, adding that Lori "seems beyond relieved that she can put her prison sentence behind her."

Lori opted to enter the Dublin, California correctional facility early on October 30^th rather than the scheduled November 19^th, so that she could complete her sentencing in 2020 and be home in time for New Years.

"It's the most stressful thing she has ever dealt with. She plans on spending New Year's with Olivia and Bella," the source continued.

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Her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, 57, is still incarcerated for his role in the scandal, having been sentenced to five months in prison. He will be released in April 2021. The source told People that Lori’s reunion with her daughters, while emotional, was incomplete without husband and father Mossimo, and that the family is desperately anticipating his return.

"She is still worried about Mossimo though, and can't wait to have him home," they said.

Recently, Instagram influencer Olivia Jade joined Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk to express her deep remorse for the scandal.

“I’m not trying to victimize myself. I don’t want pity. I don’t deserve pity,” she said to Jada and Jada’s mother Adrienne. “We messed up. I just want a second chance to be like, ‘I recognize I messed up.’ And for so long I wasn’t able to talk about this because of the legalities behind it.”

 “I never got to say I’m really sorry that this happened,” she continued, “or I really own that this was a big mess-up on everybody’s part. But I think everybody feels that way in my family right now […] I understand that I, just based off my skin colour, I already had my foot in the door and I was already ahead of everybody else. [...] I can recognize that going forward. I do want to do stuff to change that and to help that.”

Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli weren’t the only celebs found guilty in the scandal – Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman was also sentenced to prison for fraud and conspiracy after paying an admissions consultant $15,000 to change her daughter’s SAT answers. Felicity only served 11 days of her 14-day sentence before being released.

The Associated Press reports that nearly 60 parents and coaches have been charged in the case, with many still embroiled in legal battles. The sentences handed down to the wealthy parents (who exercised their privilege and influence to scam their children into schools that otherwise wouldn’t have offered admission) have ranged from a couple weeks to nine months, something that many critics have pointed out is again a hallmark of white privilege.

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