Full House alum Jodie Sweetin says she learned “humility” the hard way — at a Target checkout, putting items back because her debit card would not cover them — after years of addiction wiped out the money she earned as Stephanie Tanner.
Speaking on actress Natanya Ross’s We’re Still Here, Babe podcast on Nov. 4, Sweetin, 44, told Page Six she poured her Full House earnings into treatment before getting sober in 2011. “It’s not like I was ever a materialistic person, but you learn humility when you are at Target and you got to turn around and go put some s—t back ’cause you don’t have the money on your debit card,” she said.
While in treatment she took a director-of-operations job to bring in cash and said the ordinary grind actually made her happy. That stretch overlapped with raising daughters Zoie, now 18, and Beatrix, now 16, with ex-husbands Cody Herpin and Morty Coyle. Sweetin recalled living in a one-and-a-half-bedroom apartment on about $2,200 a month, with her parents covering half the rent, driving a used car, and shrugging off anyone who wondered why a former child star was “working a normal job.”
Even Fuller House did not flip a switch overnight. When the Netflix sequel premiered in 2016, she said she had to borrow money in the first week and slid into her first paycheck with roughly $190 in the bank — something none of her co-workers knew. “I’ve been very fortunate to know a lot of really wonderful things, but I have had those experiences where there’s no money. And your ego can’t be involved,” she reflected.
Sweetin has previously said her drinking started at 14 after a wedding for Full House co-star Candace Cameron Bure, describing an ugly, embarrassing night that still “clicked” something in her brain. The latest podcast conversation reframes that long recovery arc as a money story as much as a sobriety one: fame paid the bills until addiction emptied them, and rebuilding meant Target returns, shared rent, and learning to bloom where she was planted.
Source: Page Six
