Jodie Sweetin opens up about getting blackout drunk at age 14 during Candace Cameron Bure’s wedding and reflects on how the experience shaped her early struggles with alcohol and addiction.
Jodie Sweetin is opening up about a painful and formative chapter of her past, revealing the first time she ever drank alcohol — an experience that happened when she was just 14 years old. The Full House actress shared the story during the Nov. 20, 2025 episode of the Skinny Confidential Him & Her Show podcast, recalling that the incident took place at her Full House costar Candace Cameron Bure’s 1996 wedding to Valeri Bure.
“Well, the first time I ever drank, I was like 14… and it was at Candace’s wedding, and I was just a blackout drinker,” Sweetin, now 43, said on the podcast.
Sweetin explained that the night spiraled quickly, admitting that she remembers almost nothing after dancing the “YMCA.” “I don’t remember anything from the rest of the night. And it was awful and it was ugly and it was embarrassing and my mother was horrified,” she said.
She recalled that she had been sitting across the room from her mother during the reception. “They would pour a glass of wine, and then they would get around to pouring more and I was like, ‘I’ll take a little more, please.’ Like an idiot 13, 14 year old, you know?” she added. She described the aftermath vividly, saying, “It was a lot of red wine and the bathroom was very white — not a good mix.”
Despite how terrible she felt the next day, Sweetin admitted that something inside her “clicked.” She said she found herself drawn to the feeling of escape: “Oh, that was fun. You didn’t give a s— about anything. You just don’t remember it.”
By 15 or 16, she recognized that her drinking and partying habits were different from her friends’. “They were like, ‘Bro, settle down,’ and I would be like, ‘Okay well now I’ve gotta find somebody I can do these drugs with.’”
Elsewhere in the interview, Sweetin revealed that she was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, which helped her understand some of her earlier behaviors. She said that working on Full House provided structure and “hyper-focus,” but when that ended at age 13, she struggled to find stability. “I was looking for a way to make my brain work better,” Sweetin shared, noting that stimulants became a way to cope.
Sweetin has discussed her sobriety journey openly over the years. She said that while she did not struggle with addiction during her time on Full House, it became a topic that followed her into her 20s. She recalled going to treatment, becoming sober, relapsing, and ultimately fighting her way back. “It’s been up and down,” she said, noting that she has now gone 16 years without alcohol and 13 years since a medication-related relapse after a car accident.
She also said doctors prescribed her a muscle relaxant following the accident, which triggered the relapse even though “pills were never [her] thing.”
After getting sober again, Sweetin returned to the spotlight through the Netflix reboot Fuller House, which ran from 2016 to 2020. She also teamed up with co-star Andrea Barber to launch the Full House rewatch podcast How Rude, Tanneritos! — a project that reconnected fans to the beloved sitcom and its stars.
Sweetin emphasized that although her sobriety journey has often been public, it does not define her entirely. She has repeatedly stressed that she is more than “a salacious story” and continues to reclaim her narrative on her own terms.
