With both her parents now in prison for their involvement in last year’s college admissions bribery scandal, 21-year-old Olivia Jade Gianulli shares that her life has become hard but has also given her the opportunity to figure herself out.
People quotes a source as saying that the YouTuber had a hard time during the Thanksgiving holidays and was not looking forward to Christmas. With their parents no longer around to fix things for them, Olivia Jade and her sister Isabella Rose are now focusing on their own lives.
Olivia Jade is reportedly looking to restart her YouTube career after she had to withdraw from the University of Southern California due to the college admissions bribery scandal. The same source is quoted as saying that Olivia Jade is interested in the beauty and fashion industry.
All of these come after Olivia Jade’s guest appearance on the Facebook Watch show, Red Table Talk. As reported by CNN, Olivia Jade told Red Table Talk hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Jones that it was hard to see her parents go to prison.
That said, she did not make any excuses for her parents’ behavior, emphasizing that the whole scheme was wrong and that her parents being in jail was necessary for everyone to move on. She said what happened was a “big mistake” and something to learn from.
Olivia Jade also admitted that she had no idea what the big deal was about the scandal in the first place, confessing that she thought the whole scheme was normal. She said that while she was a good student in high school, she was not good enough to get into the University of Southern California.
The bribery scandal Olivia Jade’s family was involved in had her parents paying Rick Singer, the scam’s mastermind, $500,000 to make it look like she and her sister Isabella Rose were recruited to the crew team of the University of Southern California.
While the numbers for Olivia Jade’s guest appearance on Red Table Talk have not been confirmed, it is sure to be another blockbuster episode for the show. The episode was only announced a day before airing, with Jada Pinkett Smith sharing a video on her Twitter account.
The video has Olivia Jade saying that she felt safe talking about the incident on Red Table Talk and that she thought the show would be a good venue to have an open conversation about what happened.
After describing the incident as “one of the biggest school bribery scandals,” Pinkett Smith said that Olivia Jade thought it was now time to speak about the issue since both her parents are now serving prison time for the crime.