Olivia Jade Giannulli and her sister, Bella Giannulli, are, for the first time together, discussing the college admission scandal that embroiled their family. Although neither exactly called it that, referring to it at one point as the “thingy thing with our family,” the siblings talked about how their mental health was impacted by the controversy.
Bella, 23, was a guest on Monday’s Conversations With Olivia Jade podcast in which they opened up about how hard it was to see negative media coverage about their mom, Lori Loughlin. But first, they prefaced that they aren’t trying to garner sympathy.
“We both have a really clear perspective … we can just say we’re in the wrong,” Olivia, 22, began. “I don’t want that generic kind of topic to be twisted that I’m sitting here asking about mental health and what we went through the last few years and people saying, ‘Are they seriously complaining about this?'”
“It’s not complaining,” Bella added. “You have to take what you’ve been through and learn from that. That’s what talking about it and working through it does.”
