NEW YORK — Former The View host Sherri Shepherd said she once fell for religious leaders saying the rapture was coming and wound up in debt and in jail.
A South African pastor’s prediction that the world would end by Wednesday went viral on social media this week. Shepherd didn’t buy into that prediction — only because she fell for a similar hoax in the past.
“I used to be in a religion that told me that the rapture was coming,” she confessed Wednesday on her syndicated show Sherri.
The 58-year-old host didn’t say when she got caught up in that faith, but said she once stopped paying taxes and bills, including $10,000 in traffic tickets, as a result of believing the world would end. Shepherd also saw no point in going to court to answer for those violations, as she was awaiting a more important judgment day.
“Well, the world never ended, I went to jail,” she told her audience.
Shepherd then showed viewers a photo she said was taken the day she was taken into custody. It showed her smiling while wearing a bubbly, colorful outfit on her way to perform a comedy act. She joked that the photo clearly showed a woman who didn’t expect to be arrested.
“I went to jail for eight days and because I fell for the rapture, I became a hardened criminal, so just thank God we are all still here,” she said.
Brian Niemietz
New York Daily News
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