After months of silence amid scrutiny over the college admissions scandal, Olivia Jade Giannulli is back on social media as her parents face sentencing in the scheme.
Olivia Jade is posting regularly on Instagram — about one photo a month as well as sharing photos and videos on her story. In December, she had announced she wanted to make comeback in a YouTube video titled "hi again."
In the video, Olivia Jade told her followers she was "legally not allowed" to speak about the scandal. While saying she missed the platform, she said she was "terrified to make this video and to come back."
Olivia Jade's parents, Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, were among dozens of parents accused of paying the scheme's ringleader, William "Rick" Singer, to have their children's college entrance exams falsified or their admissions into elite universities guaranteed.
Loughlin and Giannulli have since pleaded guilty to paying $500,000 to guarantee their daughters' admissions to the University of Southern California.
The scandal hit while Olivia Jade was a freshman at USC. At the time, she was pursuing a lucrative YouTube career on the side, partnering with Amazon for a dorm tour, giving makeup tutorials for Sephora, and picking up additional sponsorships with Marc Jacobs Beauty and Estée Lauder Companies. In the weeks that followed her parents' indictments, she was dropped by several sponsors, and she posted a now-deleted Instagram featuring her giving two middle fingers to the press.
Loughlin and Giannulli are scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.
And while Olivia Jade has faced scrutiny at every turn in the aftermath of the college admissions scandal, it appears that she might finally be making a comeback.