Sherri Shepherd Reveals She Once Spent 8 Days in Jail Because She Thought the Rapture Was Coming

Sherri Shepherd once ended up behind bars for eight days because she was so sure the Rapture was coming, she didn’t bother paying her bills.

Figuring the world was about to end, she was behind on her taxes, house payments and other bills, and had $10,000 in unpaid traffic tickets, she recalled on the Sept. 24 episode of her talk show, Sherri.

The Rapture is a belief by some Christians that Jesus will return to Earth and the “elect” — practicing believers — will be lifted up to heaven. Most recently South African preacher Joshua Mhlakela predicted it would occur on Sept. 23.

“Everybody on TikTok started spreading the word that the Rapture was coming,” Shepherd explained. “I believe in the Rapture … But this one, I didn’t fall for the okeydoke. Because I have been through this before.

“I used to be in a religion that told me that the Rapture was coming,” the comedian recalled. “They told us to get our house in order.”

Thinking she wasn’t going to need a place to live or other worldly possessions in heaven, “I didn’t pay my bills,” she says. “Why would I pay anything when the world’s about to end?”

But when the Rapture didn’t happen, she discovered she was still Earth-bound … and Johnny Law had some questions.

“The world never ended. I went to jail,” she said.

“And you can tell I was not expecting to go to jail ’cause when the police pulled me over, I was wearing this,” she quipped, referring to a picture of herself wearing a psychedelic multicolored shirt and matching sky-high heels.

“I was on my way to perform at the Comedy Store in Hollywood,” she explained. “I went to jail for eight days.”

“Because I fell for the Rapture, I became a hardened criminal,” she joked.