Overview
- Sweetin, 43, told the Skinny Confidential podcast that her first time drinking was at Candace Cameron Bure’s 1996 wedding, recalling a blackout and calling the episode embarrassing.
- She described slipping wine refills while seated away from her mother and remembering only dancing to YMCA before losing the rest of the night.
- By 15–16, she realized she partied more intensely than friends and sought peers who used drugs, later abusing alcohol, ecstasy, meth and cocaine.
- Sweetin said a later ADHD diagnosis clarified why she gravitated to stimulants as a way to make her brain feel more regulated.
- She entered treatment in her 20s, experienced relapses including one tied to prescribed meds after a car accident, and now reports 16 years sober from alcohol and 13 years since a pills relapse.