John Stamos Says Listening to Bob Saget's Audiobook Every Day After He Died ‘Gave Me Such Comfort’

Saget's 'Full House' co-star died in 2022 after suffering a fall in his hotel room.

July 22, 2024

John Stamos and Bob Saget pose together at an event. John wears a checkered shirt and casual jacket, while Bob is in a dark suit with a collared shirt — Matt Winkelmeyer via Getty Images

John Stamos has revealed that he listened to Bob Saget's audiobook every night after he learned about his Full House co-star's death.

Stamos appeared as a guest on the latest episode of Dave Coulier's Full House Rewind podcast, and during the episode, he spoke about how he grieved his co-star, who died at age 65 in January 2022. "Do you remember when his book came out?" Stamos asked Coulier, who appeared on the series as Joey Gladstone. "It was very dirty and weird. And so and for whatever reason, the night [Saget] died, I put on his audio tape and it gave me such comfort. I don't know why. I listened to it every night when I went to sleep."

The book Stamos, 60, is referring to is Saget's 2014 memoir, Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian. Saget penned the book and voiced the audiobook version.

"One morning I woke up and I was like, ‘Did he say, in his book, did he say he hit his head and that's how he died?'" Stamos continued. "And I'm like, 'No. That couldn’t be.' And I went back to it and he talks, as a joke, about, 'I would hit my head and call TMZ and [say] I'm dying." Coulier added that Stamos' death has "left a huge void" in their lives.

"I knew him way before Full House, I met him when I was 18 years old, I was a young comic in Detroit," said Coulier. "Here's this guy, just crushing it on stage. And I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to be.'" Stamos also remarked that Coulier stayed with Saget when he first moved to Los Angeles. "So it was life imitating art," he said.

Stamos was discovered unresponsive by a Ritz-Carlton Orlando hotel security officer on January 9, 2022, after he didn't check out of his room in time. His death was later ruled to be from "posterior scalp abrasions, subgaleal hemorrhage, discoloration in the upper and lower eyelids due to skull fracture, subdural hematoma, and subarachnoid hemorrhage."

Investigators believe he fell backward in the bathroom of his hotel room and severely injured his head.