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Jodie Sweetin Reveals Details of Past Drug Addiction
Jodie Sweetin, the actress who played middle child Stephanie Tanner on the hit family drama “Full House,” reveals the truth about her addiction to methamphetamine in her new tell-all memoir, “unSweetined.” She also admits hitting the red carpet “high as a kite” during a movie premiere for former co-stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen several years ago.
In "unSweetined," the former child star reveals the gritty details of her addiction and ongoing struggle to stay clean and sober. She claimed she had kicked her addiction to crystal meth in interviews with "Good Morning America" in 2006 and again in the summer of 2008, but she now reveals that she continued using into December of last year.
An excerpt from her memoir on Amazon.com reads: “It started one day, just a few months after my GMA spot, when I got a random phone call from a friend who I used with and who occasionally sold me drugs...We hung out, played cards. I told her I hadn't done meth in a while. One thing led to another and just like that, I was back.”
She also writes about drinking too much at co-star Candace Cameron’s 1996 wedding—when Sweetin was just 14—and passing out in a restroom, as well as snorting meth in a bathroom stall at the premiere of the Olsen sisters’ 2004 movie “New York Minute.”
“I was pulling off the deceit. It was hard for people to believe I was doing that much drugs. I look at photos from that event, and I didn't even look strung out!," she told Us Weekly.
It wasn't until her addiction threatened her custody of her daughter that Sweetin cleaned up her act, she said.
"I was flying to L.A. and I ended up taking a bunch of Nyquil and drinking a s---load. When I got home, I got a call that there was an emergency custody investigation because of my drinking. From that day forward, I threw myself into going to AA and avoided people who do blow off their coffee tables."
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