‘She Nonetheless Appears Confused and Frightened’

Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli‘s authorized woes have consumed their lives.

A supply tells PEOPLE Loughlin has devoted all of her consideration to the couple’s ongoing authorized case within the wake of their alleged involvement within the school admissions scandal.

“Since Lori isn’t working, that is the main target for her,” says the supply. “It’s clearly not the healthiest focus. She nonetheless appears harassed and anxious concerning the future. It’s form of like this surreal state of affairs.”

And whereas Loughlin understands the gravity of the state of affairs, the supply says she’s nonetheless struggling to come back to phrases with simply how a lot her life has modified up to now few months. (The actress was dropped from all Hallmark Channel productions after the information broke.)

“Lori is used to being very busy with work and her household, so it’s troublesome mentally for her that that is the main target,” says the supply. “They’ve principally been staying dwelling and spending time as a household.”

However Loughlin’s profession isn’t the one the one to take a success: Her youngest daughter misplaced a number of partnerships and endorsement offers.

“Each Olivia and Bella have been round,” says the supply of the couple’s daughters Olivia Jade, 19, Isabella Rose, 20. “Olivia nonetheless desires to rebuild her enterprise. She is optimistic that she’s going to have the ability to. She isn’t one to surrender.”

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No matter what the household is going through, they’re dedicated to sticking collectively till the tip, in response to the supply.

“Their perspective is extra like, ‘We’re going get by way of this as a household,” says the supply. “After they had been first hit with costs, it was a chaotic state of affairs for everybody. Issues have undoubtedly calmed down.”

On March 12, the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in Massachusetts introduced that it had charged 50 folks, together with Felicity Huffman, Loughlin and her husband, within the dishonest scandal. Together with coaches, admissions counselors and fellow mother and father, they had been accused of alleged crimes corresponding to falsifying SAT scores and mendacity concerning the athletic abilities of their youngsters.

Prosecutors alleged that Loughlin and her husband paid $500,000 to admissions marketing consultant William “Rick” Singer and his nonprofit group, Key Worldwide Basis (“KWF”), which prosecutors mentioned was truly a entrance for accepting bribes, to have their daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew group — although they didn’t take part in crew — thereby facilitating their admission to USC.” (Neither Olivia Jade, 19, and Isabella Rose, 20, are listed on the USC ladies’s rowing roster.)

Singer has since admitted his position because the ringleader of the rip-off and has pleaded responsible to a number of costs.

Loughlin and Giannulli had been indicted on a further cost of fraud and cash laundering earlier this month.

If convicted, they withstand 20 years in jail for every cost. Their attorneys haven’t returned PEOPLE’s requests for remark.

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A supply beforehand informed PEOPLE the couple didn’t intend to do something unlawful.

“Once they battle this, they’re going to provide much more nuance and mitigating circumstances that can assist put their alleged actions into context,” the supply says. “The underside line is that they simply didn’t understand that what they had been doing was unlawful.”