Full House Star Admits Horrible Meth Addiction, And It’s Not Kimmy Gibler

What’s the deal with childhood actors getting all criminally when they grow up?  Kimberly from Diff’rent Strokes robbed a video store at gun point, and her television half brother Willis got accused of a couple stabbings. Then you have The Little Rascals‘ Robert Blake, who grew up to stand trial in his wife’s killing.

Surely, if any cast of child stars were beyond reproach it’s those of Full House fame. Nay, tis not so, says we. Methamphetamines eventually ran a regular course through one of their adorable innards, and the problem was so bad it caused her co-stars to throw an intervention.

Somewhere in TV land, Danny Tanner, Joey Gladstone and Jesse Cochran/Katsopolis are all sitting on a couch wondering where exactly they went wrong.

Full House (DVDs) was the 80’s and 90’s sitcom that launched the Olsen twins
to global fame and Walmart clothing racks everywhere. Each episode was
jam-packed with terrific comedy, valuable life-lessons, and the
underlying plot of Uncle Jesse trying desperately to escape his father’s
insect extermination business. 

Actress Jodie Sweetin, who played the part of middle sister
Stephanie Tanner recently admitted to being a recovering meth addict.
Though she was careful not to blame it entirely on her loss of fame,
she did say:

"There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends,
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 about 2004 Jodie began experimenting with the dangerous drug, and
before long it’d blown up into a daily habit. She was able to keep it
a secret from her police officer husband, and only stopped due to an
all-star intervention including: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, John Stamos and Bob Saget.

Sweetin said now that she’s been clean for almost a year, she’s
ready to jump back into acting. We recommend she take a few pages out
of the Todd Bridges ‘reclaim your fame’ book. He beat up Vanilla Ice and then got a role on the soap opera The Young & The Restless.
So Jodie, start pumping iron and practising your left hook, because you
too, may find yourself waxing Ice like a candle.

On second thought,
just look him up in the phone book and go - he’s far too pasty to be a
real threat.  When he answers his door though, if you see a bunch of
back-up dancers, pretend like you just wanted to borrow some sugar.
Dancers fight like wolves, they do.

Read more:

‘FULL HOUSE’ CUTIE: I WAS A… METH ADDICT - New York Post 

[story by Shawn Lindseth]