Full Home alum Jodie Sweetin has elaborated on her previous habit wrestle, saying it was all anybody wished to speak about after somebody offered the story of her being in remedy.
The Stephanie Tanner portrayer struggled with habit in her 20s, as she stated in a latest interview on Kail Lowry’s Barely Well-known podcast. “And since folks know who you might be, it by no means type of goes away from it being within the public eye,” she defined. “And likewise, something that you simply undergo since you’re within the public eye, folks simply need to take note of it, no matter if it’s one thing that hundreds of thousands of different persons are coping with.”
Regardless of folks assuming Sweetin’s drug and alcohol use was a results of her early fame, the actor stated she would have struggled with habit points “no matter being on TV or not.” Within the middle-class neighborhood during which Sweetin grew up, 5 different younger folks “both went to jail for medication” or “OD’d of their home” and “no one knew about them,” she stated.
“It occurs on a regular basis,” Sweetin noticed. “It doesn’t should be somebody well-known. This occurs on a regular basis.”
Moreover, being a toddler star gave her sources to hunt remedy. “However it’s onerous, ,” she admitted. “You need to make all of your errors very publicly.”
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Sweetin stated she was round 18 when she first acquired sober, and after ups and downs, she sought remedy in her early 20s. “After which after I went to remedy, the story got here out,” she stated. “Somebody mainly offered the story that I had been in remedy.”
Then Sweetin needed to face the selection of speaking about her habit or hiding from the press. “I selected to only face it as a result of it’s not going to go wherever,” she stated. “And the extra you attempt to not speak about one thing, the extra folks need to speak about it.”
On the podcast, Sweetin instructed Lowry it had been 16 years since she drank alcohol and 13 years since she had a medicine relapse.
And getting again into performing was difficult for Sweetin as a result of “the one factor that individuals wished to speak about” was her habit. “So there have been occasions I used to be like, oh, why didn’t I simply maintain my mouth shut? Why didn’t I simply say, I don’t need to speak about it?”
However Sweetin “acquired to come back again” to Hollywood for Fuller Home, Netflix’s Full Home reboot, and her performing profession continued with Dateless to Harmful: My Son’s Secret Life, a TV film that premiered on Lifetime final month.
“, I simply by no means gave up figuring out that I had extra to supply than simply being some salacious story,” Sweetin stated.