Jodie Sweetin says her years of sobriety helped her and John Stamos connect in a way that went beyond their old TV partnership. The 44-year-old said the bond has stayed strong because both have spent years doing the work to stay sober, and because each has shown up for the other at important moments.
Sweetin said Stamos once presented her with an award several years ago for work she had done, and that the two have celebrated each other’s big successes and milestones since then. She talked about that connection on July 15 during The Dory Jackson Interview, where she framed sobriety not as a single turning point but as something that has shaped how she carries herself in public and in private.
The two first built that relationship long before the recovery talk. Sweetin and Stamos spent eight years together on Full House as Stephanie Tanner and Uncle Jesse Katsopolis, a pairing that made them familiar to viewers and, over time, to each other. Sweetin said the shared history mattered, but the sobriety link mattered more: both have spoken openly about recovery, and both have remained sober for years.
Stamos has been sober since 2015, after checking into a rehabilitation center more than a decade ago following a misdemeanor DUI in Beverly Hills, Calif. Sweetin said she has been sober since 2011, but the path to that point was not straight. She described several bouts of sobriety and relapse in her 20s before she stayed sober for good 15 years ago.
She traced the start of her drinking back to age 14, when she said she had her first drink at Candace Cameron Bure’s wedding in 1996. By 15 or 16, she said, she was regularly partying. Later, she stepped away from acting and took a normal job at a rehab clinic, saying she had originally gone into treatment work after she got sober. That break did not last forever. Sweetin said she returned to acting with Fuller House in 2016 and later took numerous Hallmark movies, while still keeping the recovery work that had shaped her life.
The friction in her story is the part that makes it feel real: sobriety did not arrive all at once, and it did not stay easy. Sweetin said the work included 12-step programs, outside programs and therapy, along with simply growing older and seeing herself differently. Her point was not that recovery made everything neat. It was that she learned to like the person she became, and that made going back to destructive behavior much harder.
That is why the connection with Stamos reads as more than nostalgia. They are old co-stars, yes, but they are also two people who have kept faith with the same hard-earned change. Sweetin left the interview with no new project or public appearance tied to the topic, but the message was clear enough: the next milestone for them will probably be another one they recognize in each other first.
