Jodie Sweetin is getting real about the years between Full House and Fuller House, and the details are humbling. On the“We’re Still Here, Babe”podcast, the actress said that after getting sober in 2011, she discovered her Full House earnings were gone. She took a job as a logistics coordinator at a Los Angeles treatment center and raised her two daughters on about $2,200 a month in a one-and-a-half-bedroom apartment, with her parents covering half the rent.
She described learning humility at Target, putting items back because her debit card didn’t have the funds. Even when Fuller House was greenlit, money was tight: she borrowed cash during her first week on set and had just $190 in her bank account when her first paycheck arrived. Sweetin also said she would have been content never acting again.
Her story is landing because it’s so relatable: single parenthood, tight budgets, and the quiet work of starting over. It also reframes the comeback. What question do you have for someone rebuilding their career from scratch?
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