Jodie Sweetin was just 14 years old when she tried alcohol for the first time and got “blackout” drunk.
Jodie Sweetin first drank alcohol at Cadance Cameron Bure’s wedding when she was just 14.
The 43-year-old actress – who has spoken openly about her addiction problems in the past -recalled the “awful, ugly and embarassing” experience of drinking wine during the nuptials of her Full House co-star and her now-husband Valeri Bure, and how her “blackout” shocked her mother.
Speaking on the Skinny Confidential podcast, Jodie said: “Well, the first time I ever drank, I was like 14 … and it was at Candace’s wedding, and I was just a blackout drinker.
“It was awful and it was ugly and it was embarrassing. And my mother was horrified.
“I was at the table, and I was drinking, and, you know, it was like I was across the room from my mom.”
Jodie explained it wasn’t initially obvious to the adults around her that she was drinking.
She added: “So they would pour a glass of wine … and then they’d get around right then, they’d get around to pouring more, and I was like, ‘I’ll take a little more, please.’ “
She was “horrified the next day” and “felt awful” but Jodie admitted something “clicked” for her during the experience and led to her partying hard over the subsequent years.
She said: “I was like, ‘Ooh, that was fun’.
“I’d say around 15, 16, I knew that I drank and partied in a way that my friends did not, and they were like, ‘What, bro? Settle down.’
“I would be like, ‘Okay, well, now I’ve got to go find somebody that I can do these drugs with.’
“Or, you know, it was like finding different people that didn’t make you feel so bad about what you were doing.”
Jodie previously told how she had got sober in 2008.
Speaking in October 2009, she told Us Weekly magazine: “I got sober for good on December 7, 2008. I was flying to LA and I ended up taking a bunch of Nyquil and drinking a s***load.
“When I got home, I got a call that there was an emergency custody investigation because of my drinking.
“From that day forward, I threw myself into going to [Alcoholics Anonymous] and avoided people who do blow off their coffee tables. … Life is good. I’m happier than I can remember.”
The Fuller House actress is pleased she managed to overcome her “demons”.
She told the same publication in 2016: “We all have our demons.
“When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free. I look back at things that have happened in the past, and I look at where I’m now, and it’s crazy. If anything, my life is a lesson to never give up.”
Jodie Sweetin turned to alcohol at 14
