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"Full House" Star Admits Meth Problem
Yahoo ^ | 2/01/06 | Sarah Hall

Posted on 02/02/2006 7:29:15 AM PST by Borges

Former Full House cutie Jodie Sweetin has earned herself a spot on the lengthy list of child stars gone wrong.

During an appearance on Good Morning America Wednesday, Sweetin, who played middle sister Stephanie Tanner on the hit sitcom, revealed that she is a recovering meth addict and once battled a daily drug habit.

The ex-actress, 24, said she had trouble figuring out how to adjust to a regular childhood existence after Full House ended its run in 1995.

"There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends," Sweetin said. "It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself."

In an attempt to lead a "normal" kid's life, Sweetin attended high school and college, graduating with a degree in liberal arts. In 2002, she married a Los Angeles police officer.

Though she occasionally appeared in bit parts on TV series, including Party of Five and Yes, Dear, Sweetin's acting career essentially stalled after Full House.Two years ago, bored and unemployed, the former child star began experimenting with drugs as a way to pass the time.

She was soon addicted to methamphetamine and using the debilitating drug every day.

Though Sweetin stops short of blaming her addiction on her child star lifestyle, she concedes that her career may have stripped her of some of the benefits of a typical childhood.

"Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast--you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks," Sweetin said Wednesday.

After a particularly bad three-day bender, which reportedly resulted in an intervention staged by her former Full House costars, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, John Stamos and Bob Saget, Sweetin checked herself into Promises rehab facility for six weeks of intensive therapy.

Clean and sober since March of last year, Sweetin now admits she was "living a total double life."

"I was married to a police officer--we are going through a divorce right now--he had no idea," she said.

Since kicking her addiction, Sweetin says she now hopes to get back into acting.

"I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me," she said. "I really hope this isn't the last people hear of me. In fact, I would like to make this a footnote in my career, not the end."


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: actress; childstar; childstarsgonewrong; crystal; crystalmeth; drugabuse; drugaddiction; drugs; fullhouse; jodiesweetin; lindsay; lindsaylohan; lohan; meth; methamphetamine; wherearetheynow
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To: Ragtop

Yeah, she grew up real nice!


41 posted on 02/02/2006 8:17:50 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Ragtop

Yeah, she grew up real nice!


42 posted on 02/02/2006 8:18:28 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Ragtop

My twelve-year-old still watches FULL HOUSE religiously. I think she has a thing for John Stamos....


43 posted on 02/02/2006 8:22:58 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Borges
Two years ago, bored and unemployed, the former child star began experimenting with drugs as a way to pass the time.

It also seems like an easy way to keep your weight down in thinness-obsessed Hollywood.

44 posted on 02/02/2006 8:30:40 AM PST by StrictTime
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To: Ragtop
Saved by the Bell is like visual heroin. No one actually wants to watch it, but if some how the channel accidentally stops on it once you are some how sucked in.

And it's all down hill from there.

It's actually a good chronicle of horrible 90's fashions.
45 posted on 02/02/2006 8:31:21 AM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: tallhappy
Sit on it, Cyclopean Squid.

Dy No Mite!

46 posted on 02/02/2006 8:32:41 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Ragtop
Personally, "24" and "Lost" tend to be the only network T.V. shows I watch regularly. No catch phrases or annoying gay characters.

Let me open up a socket and set up a perimeter. Then we can discuss whether there's something a little bit off about Edgar. LOL

SD

47 posted on 02/02/2006 8:44:55 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Edgar is a cool character. Of course, I liek the actor who portrays him- Louis Lombardi, he played the FBI Agent in "The Sopranos" that gets "Big Pussy" to turn.


48 posted on 02/02/2006 8:50:45 AM PST by Ragtop (We are the people our parents warned us about)
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To: retrokitten

I remember my first year of college and they would have re-runs back to back on two different channels. So one could watch four episodes of Saved by the Bell in a row. Then came the College Years...


49 posted on 02/02/2006 8:52:26 AM PST by Ragtop (We are the people our parents warned us about)
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To: RosieCotton

Dittos


50 posted on 02/02/2006 9:32:40 AM PST by hattend
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To: Borges

She has the same last name as the three kids from Everybody Loves Raymond. I wonder if they're related?


51 posted on 02/02/2006 9:53:43 AM PST by Freebird Forever (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice.)
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To: Freebird Forever

No. The ELR kids have the last name SweetEn, not SweetIn. No relation.


52 posted on 02/02/2006 10:19:16 AM PST by TheBigB (Chuck Norris wears George W. Bush pajamas.)
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To: retrokitten

And it's fun to think about what they did afterwards...think about telling braniac Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkeley) that "someday, you'll be a stripper named Nomi." :^)


53 posted on 02/02/2006 10:20:30 AM PST by TheBigB (Chuck Norris wears George W. Bush pajamas.)
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To: stinkerpot65


She looks like Stamos in drag.
54 posted on 02/02/2006 11:15:52 AM PST by Borges
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To: ClearCase_guy

I hear that some years ago, people in Hollywood would go to AA even without a problem just to network.


55 posted on 02/02/2006 12:27:30 PM PST by weegee (Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
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To: dropandgimme20

Those who want to legalize drugs to "end" the drug war would have to legalize everything or else face a continued drug war (with some substances no longer illegal, but others still criminal).


56 posted on 02/02/2006 12:29:07 PM PST by weegee (Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
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To: Borges
After a particularly bad three-day bender, which reportedly resulted in an intervention staged by her former Full House costars, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, John Stamos and Bob Saget

This sounds like an awesome Pay-Per-View event.

57 posted on 02/02/2006 12:30:07 PM PST by Sloth (Archaeologists test for intelligent design all the time.)
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To: dropandgimme20

Jay North, who played Dennis the Menace on tv said childhood actor is a career that "chooses you". "Chews you right up", he's quick to add.


58 posted on 02/02/2006 12:30:36 PM PST by weegee (Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
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To: Ragtop
You can go back to radio, where some actors even went from show to show doing essentially the same character.

Remember the salesman who says "Y-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!"

59 posted on 02/02/2006 12:33:51 PM PST by weegee (Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
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To: Sloth
It would make one heck of a great Full house episode! How screwed up do you have to be when the Olsen Twins show up at your intervention?
60 posted on 02/02/2006 12:35:22 PM PST by Borges
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