“Full House” star Jodie Sweetin is opening up about where she and the rest of the cast stand with twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. While appearing on a recent episode of “Comics and Kicks,” Sweetin said that she and the Olsens are fine despite rumors that the 40-year-olds were in a bad place with a majority of the cast. According to Sweetin, there’s no truth to the claims, and she confirmed that the pair spent several days together in 2022, when actor Bob Saget died.
“Everyone’s on good terms with them, but they were 8 years old when this show stopped,” Sweetin said about her and the rest of the cast’s relationship with the twins. “Then, they did all of those movies and all that stuff that I don’t know that they really loved doing all the time.”
Don’t forget, Mary-Kate and Ashley shared the role of Michelle Tanner in the ’80s sitcom “Full House.” After that, the pair went on to star in several films, including “Passport to Paris,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “It Takes Two,” and “Double Double.”
The sisters left the entertainment industry behind in the early 2000s to begin building their fashion brands, “The Row” and “Elizabeth and James.” According to Sweetin, the two left the world of acting because it wasn’t “what they love.”
Jodie Sweetin Says Mary-Kate And Ashley Olsen Have A ‘Different Relationship’ With The Acting Industry
Later in the podcast interview, Sweetin talked about the twins’ relationship with the acting industry, stating that they didn’t enjoy being on the show’s set.
“They have a different relationship to being on set all the time,” she said. “Like, they might not remember being 2 years old and having, you know, us all carrying them around and doing this stuff, but I do, you know, and I think that’s not their thing.”
Sweetin shared even more about her beliefs behind Mary-Kate and Ashley’s choice to leave the industry after their last film, “New York Minute.”
“Their empire blew up and they don’t want attention, and I get it. They had so much and were so invaded and for public consumption. I totally understand why they don’t want to do that,” she said.
Jodie Sweetin Spills The Beans About That Mary-Kate And Ashley Joke In The ‘Fuller House’ Reboot
While “Full House” concluded in 1995, a majority of the cast reunited for the Netflix reboot “Fuller House” in 2016. Mary-Kate and Ashley, however, chose not to join, prompting the cast to address their absence in the first episode.
“Basically it’s the first episode of Fuller House and the whole family’s back. We’re standing in the kitchen and we’re talking about all being together again,” Sweetin said on the podcast. “And then we say something about, ‘Well, if only Michelle were here, or Michelle’s off running her fashion empire in New York.’ And then every we all just kind of looked to the camera like, ‘Uh-huh.’”
The on-screen joke, though, wasn’t meant to be a jab at the twins; it was supposed to be a light-hearted joke about their absence.
“You have to address it,” Sweetin said. “You can’t just not say anything.”
Some Cast Members Were Angry That The Twins Didn’t Come Back To Reprise Their Role
On a previous episode of the “And That’s What You REALLY Missed” podcast, actor John Stamos, who played Uncle Jesse on “Full House,” admitted he was “angry” that the twins decided not to participate in the reboot.
“When I did Fuller House, they didn’t wanna come back. And I was angry for a minute,” he said. However, his feelings subsided, and he said the entire cast reunited with them in 2022, when Saget passed away.
“… they were, like, ‘We loved our childhood. We loved being with you. We miss Bob.’ They came over to my house. They brought a pork chop and sage. I don’t know why, but thank you? It was a frozen pork chop, so that was really nice. So we stayed very close,” Stamos said.
Sweetin Recalled Things Being ‘Just Like Before’ When They Reunited Following Saget’s Death
Sweetin shared a similar statement on the “Comics and Kicks” show, revealing that when the cast reunited with Mary-Kate and Ashley, things were “just like it was before.”
She added, “It was normal. We all, you know, spent like four days just constantly together… and it was like nothing had changed.”