‘Full House’: Jodie Sweetin Says Her Addiction Began at Candace Cameron Bure’s Wedding
What To Know
- Jodie Sweetin revealed on a podcast that her alcohol addiction began at Candace Cameron Bure’s wedding.
- She described feeling out of control compared to her peers and later sought out people who would not judge her partying and drug use.
- Sweetin has previously discussed her addiction in her memoir and continues to reflect on her experiences since her time on Full House.
Full House star Jodie Sweetin recently revealed that her alcohol addiction began at costar Candace Cameron Bure‘s wedding.
On the November 20 episode of The Skinny Confidential podcast, Sweetin, 43, opened up about her years-long battle with alcoholism, which started during her early teenage years.
“The first time I ever drank, I was like 14 … and it was at Candace’s wedding, and I was just a blackout drinker,” she confessed on the podcast of Cameron Bure’s nuptials with Valeri Bure in 1996.
“It was awful, and it was ugly, and it was embarrassing,” Sweetin added. “My mother was horrified.”
She recalled, “I was at the table, and I was drinking. I was across the room from my mom. So they would pour a glass of wine. And then they’d get around to pouring more, and I was like, ‘I’ll take a little more, please.'”
After that experience, Sweetin admitted, “I was like, ‘Ooh, that was fun. You didn’t give a s*** about anything,'” sparking a pattern of partying behavior.
Sweetin said that when she was 15 or 16, she knew that she “drank and partied in a way that my friends did not.”
“They were like, ‘What, bro? Settle down,'” she explained. “I would be like, ‘OK, well, now I’ve got to go find somebody that I can do these drugs with.’ Or, you know, it was like finding different people that didn’t make you feel so bad about what you were doing.”
In her 2025 memoir, unSweetined, the former child actress delved even further into her alcohol and drug addiction.
Full House aired for eight seasons from 1987 to 1995. Sweetin played Stephanie Tanner, while Cameron Bure portrayed her older sister, DJ, and Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen played the youngest Tanner sister, Michelle. Bob Saget iconically played their father, Danny Tanner, while Dave Coulier played the eccentric honorary Uncle Joey, John Stamos played the cool guy Uncle Jesse, and Lori Loughlin played Aunt Becky.
In 2016, most of the cast reunited for the spinoff, Fuller House, which ran for five seasons on Netflix until 2020.
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