Jodie Sweetin—Stephanie on Full House—has released a memoir, Unsweetened, in which she talks about her acting career, her addiction problems, her two marriages, and her daughter, Zoie. She says herself in the introduction that there are “things that I’m too horrified to tell anyone,” but the book does seem more painfully honest and unairbrushed than most celebrity autobiographies. Here are the high—or rather, the low—points:
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen were not very nice to her on the Full House set. Once, when Sweetin was coping with the embarrassment of a tooth coming in crooked, one of the twins turned to her and said, “Why do you have a tooth growing out of there?”
She had her first drink at 14 and was smoking pot at 15. When the cops stopped her and a carload of friends for toilet-papering someone’s house, a very drunk Sweetin “literally fell out of the car and started puking everywhere.”
By college she’d moved on to Ecstasy, and then cocaine; by the time she married at 20, she began to experiment with meth. When she attended the LA premiere of New York Minute, a Mary Kate and Ashley film, in May 2004, she writes, “I knew I couldn’t last a New York minute without doing more meth. I had it in my purse, with a straw, in a little baggie inside a lip-gloss container. Often I would do meth quickly in public bathrooms, blowing the smoke into wet paper towels so you couldn’t see it. At the premiere, though, I just snorted it because I knew I couldn’t bring a whole pipe.”
After a stint in rehab, she began working at the facility as an assistant — but relapsed almost immediately. “One of my jobs was to help move clients into the facility. On one such occasion, I was asked to move a college girl out of her dorm… My job was to help her pack up her stuff and drive her to Passages. As we were putting her clothes, books and shower shoes into a box we stumbled across a bag of meth that she had forgotten…I knew I was supposed to be the responsible person. I was supposed to pack her bags and bring her to rehab. Instead, we opted to get high.”
A short drug-and-alcohol infused romance led to her second marriage. Shocked to find herself pregnant, she became clean immediately, but began drinking again shortly after her daughter Zoie was born. When she and her husband decided to divorce, he filed for full custody. The judge ordered her supervised until he could make a decision. As of the book’s completion, she had been sober 114 days.
What do you think — is this a book you’ll read?
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No, you did it for me. Thank you.
Yes! Thank you, I do not have to waste my time either
If I had to work with Bob Saget, I’d be on drugs too.
Who is she again?
I always liked her best out of the three girls on the show. The show was originally supposed to be about her character Stephanie Tanner and I don’t doubt it, she was by far the cutest.
Get in line JODI!!!
I would be more inclined to read this book if she was topless on the cover! Man she has some warlocks!
If I had to work with Bob Saget, I’d be hopelessly addicted to drugs too.
Sighhhhh, yet another child star/has-been writing a book about how messed up they were with drugs. How original!
The Olsen twins weren’t nice to her? Lol, ok how old were they when the show ended? 6?! Please. Someone needs drama to sell her book. I’m sure they werent angels but if a crooked tooth comment is the meanest exchange between them….
I wont be reading, but thanks!
I’m not sure if the crooked tooth comment is mean or just a little kid honestly asking a question because she is curious.
Was just about to say the same thing. They were little children then! Little kids say whatever pops into their heads.
I was looking for something a bit juicier than a what essentially amounts to “two five-year-olds said something about my teeth once.”
That’s what I was thinking! She just wanted to get some publicity. Sucks about the rest of it though. I feel bad for her.
I get that there’s some things that are too embarrassing, but it probably would have helped her book sales.
You know, I was drinking and smoking pot at the age of 14. I moved on to coke and acid before getting out of high school. But, I had the sense not to mess with meth because it was obviously not worth doing. This girl is an idiot and should be ignored for trying to recapture fame that was barely there in the first place.
Well bravo to you for “only” doing pot, coke and acid. I think you’re equally as idiotic as you claim she is.
God what a loser. Imagine having every advantage in life and throwing it all away because of stupid decision after stupid decision. Was there not a single person in her life that could have been a voice of reason? She’s just another idiot who threw her life away because of drugs.
Thank you for skimming this – you couldn’t have read the whole book – you would have shot yourself! How do these books get published??? I use to read manuscripts for a literary agent – this would never have passed through. I can’t wait for Jon & Kate’s book next – don’t kid yourself, it’s coming next!
Hasn’t Kate already written several books? What are you waiting for. Warts and all? Not gonna happen. She is too controlling and her team is doing too good a job at changing perceptions regarding Kate. Say anything you want about Kate – she has surrounded herself with managers that are extremely media savvy. Also, I don’t think Jon could write a book.
jon and kate have a first? omg say it isn’t so!
I’ll buy the book only if it has a picture of those amazing cans!
HA!!
Someone may have a Full House, but she’s got a nice pair!
A-oh, that was a stupid joke, but it still made me laugh!
I read Entertainment Weekly so others don’t have to.
Haha. It’s not like there’s much of it left to read. I think my last copy was 11 pages long.
Boy, lotsa hatin’ on here, eh?
Can’t blame her for doing meth to endure New York Minute. I had to see it cold turkey and I wanted to rip my eyes off!
they write such books because others will write such books about them if they don’t do it themselves ( and make something $$ for their effort)…though I am curious who this book is marketed /aimed at ….i guess to anyone in recovery?
Just goes to show that LA is not easy on kids in the spotlight and they need monitoring 24-7 …or better yet not put in that situation to begin with. Professional acting is for adults / or almost – only!
No thanks. Just another book about another spoiled child star out of control. Boo hoo!
Another celebrity with another tell-all book. Will they ever learn to just shut up?
Do you really belive she’s sober now? ‘Cause I don’t. She’s publicly lied before.
A bit of attention from the book may be pumping her up now, but the publicity will be gone again and she’ll turn back to drugs.
Agreed. I’m not saying she’s definitely lying now, but we really don’t know. She was doing anti-drug speeches while she was still using drugs, and using the money she made from those appearances to pay for the drugs! How do we know that she’s not going to hit up her dealer when she makes money from the book sales?
Let’s remember that this is one reviewer’s take on the book. I mean come on, there’s negativity cast on this book from the very title of the article (“…so you don’t have to”). I doubt highly Sweetin actually says “the Olsen twins are mean because they made a comment about my tooth!” Surely, this negative impression that we get is due to what we read–one person’s opinion.
I am not sure why those who have had such some good fortune in their lives must make their mistakes public. The better story is the child actor who, realizing with difficulty he/she was not going to segue gracefully into adult roles and a career discovered new talents and directions that led to personal success and some genuine contributions to humankind.
Jodie and I used to do lines of coke off of Kimmy Gibler’s ass.
Have mercy.
Well pin a rose on your nose!!
How rude!
I am looking forward to reading Jodie’s book! It’s sad to see so many of you ripping apart someone who has decided to come forward and expose such a personal and private matter. Shame on all of you. I hope that addiction never is a realization for any of you. Bravo Jodie for taking your life back. I wish you well.
So what Baxter’s Mom, we should give this chick a medal because she screwed her life up with drugs and now wants to come clean about it (read: make money off of it????)Let’s see how “looking forward to reading it” you are when your precious Baxter comes out with his/her tell all book!!!!
FULL HOUSE STAR DID DRUGS? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO….no seriously, why do I care?
Its a lot easier to just sit and criticize others, and thats what you all are doing. I think we need more reviews of the book rather than one that summarizes the whole book in a nutshell. Jodie was at her best in FH, at least in the initial seasons and she did get along nice with all (including Olsens) and that is why she was there at their movie premier. I think the reviewer has some bad feelings for Jodie and just trying to spoil her book sales. Gudluk Jodie!
Ummmmmm.. and aren’t you criticizing us MARK????? Tsk Tsk.
I think she should go into porn. She’d make a great one. She could get herself a contract with one of the best houses. On the other hand, she does look just like any other big-racked big-arsed whyt trash ho LOL, so maybe she would only be picked up for gonzo videos
I knew nothing good could come of “New York Minute.”
Thanks, Tina. Honestly, I wish her luck. It’s going to be really hard for her to stay sober.
It bugs me a bit that the reviewer spelled the name of the book incorrectly. It’s supposed to be UnSweetined; spelled like her name.
And I will likely not read this book.
YES OMG I BOUGHT IT AND IT:s REALLY GOOD I COULDN’ STOP READING IT. I RECCOMEND IT TO ALL OF YOU AND IF YOU DON;T WANT TO BUY IT THEN GO TO YOUR LIBRARY IT HAS GOOD STORIES THAT WILL MAKE YOU SO PROUD OF HER. THE GOOD THING IS SHEREALIZED HER MISTAKES I REALLY WANT TO MET HER BECAUSE MY FAVORTIESHWOW GROWING UP WAS FULL HOSUE AND ITS STILL MY FAV SHOW
I won’t read it either. I am not interested in her life. I only heard her on a morning show interwiew so I googled her to see if I could find something like this. THAT SAID. I don’t pass judgement, as I have in the past drove drunk(never caught) and smoked pot. nothing else yet enough not to allow me to pass judgement. I just hope she is successful for the rest of her life in being sober.