Jodie Sweetin, who played Stephanie Tanner on Full House from 1987 until 1995, appeared on the April 21 episode of the McBride Rewind podcast. During her appearance, the 44-year-old spoke about her old friendship with her co-stars, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
“I loved them. I was really close to Ashley and Mary Kate … from the beginning,” she said. “I loved being the older one [and the] caretaker like, ‘Let’s be friends.’ They would come spend the night at my house. They’d come to my cabin on the weekends with my parents and I. We’d go horseback riding. We’d go to Disneyland. I mean, I’ve got pictures of us playing dress up at my house, like, they’re 3 [and] I’m 6, like, just kid stuff and I loved it.”
Unfortunately, she admitted that they have lost touch over the years, since the show has wrapped. “We haven’t talked,” she said. “I think after Full House and growing up and everything, they’ve had an extremely different trajectory than any of the rest of us. People say, ‘Oh, well, do you guys not talk? Is it bad?’ No, they were 8 years old when the show finished, [and] we weren’t as close as we were. I didn’t see them all the time.”
She went on to explain that there wasn’t any drama between their group. They simply grew older. “It wasn’t like there was bad blood between any of us,” she stated. “But they moved to New York and then got married and [built their] fashion empire and moved into that world. It was, like, we just sort of drifted apart.”
Since starring in Full House, Sweetin has competed on Dancing with the Stars, Beyond the Edge, Worst Cooks in America, and Name That Tune. She also returned for Fuller House to reprise her role as Stephanie in 2016 until 2020.
