*Comedian Sherri Shepherd opened up about a time she avoided taxes, parking tickets, and court appearances because she believed in the Rapture.
The Rapture is a concept found primarily in Christian eschatology. At its core, it refers to a future event when believers in Christ are taken up (“caught up”) to meet Jesus in the air. Speaking about the spiritual event on her daytime show “Sherri,” Shepherd said, “I didn’t plan on being here today. I thought the Rapture was going to take me up to heaven.”
As the New York Post reports, the former “View” co-host said her actions were influenced by a religious warning about the end of the world. “They told us to get our house in order. And I said, ‘Why? I’m not going to need a house where I am going. I don’t need those worldly possessions.’”
Her belief led her to stop paying bills, taxes, and traffic fines, accumulating roughly $10,000 in moving violations. “Jesus don’t care about no parking tickets,” she said. However, her streak of avoidance came to an abrupt end when police arrested her on outstanding warrants while she was on her way to perform at the Comedy Store in Hollywood.
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“I went to jail for eight days and, because I fell for the Rapture, I became a hardened criminal,” Shepherd joked.
Reflecting on recent viral claims that the Rapture would occur on Sept. 23, Shepherd said she was no longer easily convinced. “So everybody on TikTok started spreading the word that the rapture was coming yesterday,” she recalled on the Sept. 24 episode of her talk show. “This one I didn’t fall for the okeydoke because I have been through this before,” she told viewers.
Shepherd’s early religious life was shaped by her upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness, but she later left the group and now identifies as a Christian.
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