When we look back on Full House, it's nothing but good memories. That show was an instant classic. But there was something darker going on behind the scenes that not many of us were aware of.
John Stamos' drinking habits were spiralling to the point where he felt compelled to ask for help — and who better to ask than his old (and new Fuller House) co-star, who herself, knew exactly what he was going through?
I'm sure he never imagined that one day he would be coming to her to help get his life back on track.
Side note: That is the most amazing title she could have ever used for an unfiltered memoir.
He said that about four years ago, he hit "rock bottom."
“It took me a long time, a long time disappointing everyone who cared about me, culminating in a terrible DUI where I could have killed somebody,” he said.
"When I finally humbled myself to ask for your help, I realized that the perky little blabbermouth had become the master of wisdom and was right by my side during some of the most difficult days of my life.” he continued.
The pair had meetings at his house, and often on the set of Fuller House.
“This is Jodie’s legacy in my life,” he added.
“John, I’m so proud of you and it’s been the greatest thing to watch someone that you love have the light come back on again,” she said.
Earlier that year he was arrested for a DUI, and checked himself into a treatment center because of it.
"I coulda hurt somebody...It was really stupid and ignorant of me. I hated myself for that," he said.
And while they "mutually" decided not to keep the baby, he believes that today, children are the only thing missing in his life.
He revealed that he is clean of all the substances he was formerly abusing, and feeling much better.
He said that he believes that after his father's death is where things in his life took a turn for the worse.
"My father passed away and I got divorced…it sent me sort of down a wrong path," he said.
He said that he felt afraid of being turned down.
Although, he admitted that that has rarely happened to him in the past.
Why am I not surprised?
John was surely reaching an impasse that would be very difficult to come back from, if he kept on the path he was on.
And if ever he's feeling like he needs a drink, he can always lean on Jodie, whom he sees everyday on the set of Fuller House, for support.
