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 imp

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