Download our new app<\/a> and never miss a headline<\/p>\nSweetin, 44, revealed that the money she earned playing Stephanie Tanner on Full House ultimately went toward treatment before she got sober in 2011.<\/p>\n
\u201c[It\u2019s] not like I was ever a materialistic person, but you learn humility when you are at Target and you got to turn around and go put some sh*t back \u2019cause you don\u2019t have the money on your debit card,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The Hallmark Channel actress went on to explain she began working as a director of operations while in treatment in an effort to bring in some extra income.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was happy,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd I think part of the reason that I was able to come back into the business and enjoy it truly is that I had gone completely in the other direction. I was just working a normal job.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the time, Sweetin was also already a mother of two daughters, Zoie, now 18, and Beatrix, now 16, whom she shares with her ex-husbands, Cody Herpin and Morty Coyle, respectively.<\/p>\n
She recalled having \u201cno money\u201d and raising her children in a one-and-half-bedroom apartment while earning just $US2200 ($3200) a month, with her parents helping cover half of her rent.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just trying to get by. [I] drove an old used car,\u201d she added. \u201cI didn\u2019t have [an] ego about it. I didn\u2019t care that I was \u2018working a normal job.\u2019 I think other people, again, were like, \u2018What are you doing here?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018I\u2019m paying my bills. \u2026 Kids don\u2019t pay for themselves\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former Dancing With the Stars star also explained that she \u201clearned to be really happy\u201d with her circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just threw myself into being present, as fully present as I could be, and that old, you know, \u2018bloom where you\u2019re planted\u2019 kind of vibe,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n
Things eventually began looking up for Sweetin when Fuller House premiered on Netflix in 2016, but her financial struggles didn\u2019t disappear overnight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to borrow money the first week I was working on Fuller House, and I skidded into my first paycheck with, like, $US190 ($270) in my bank account. And nobody that I worked with knew that. Not that I cared,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on those difficult times, Sweetin said, \u201cI\u2019ve been very fortunate to know a lot of really wonderful things, but I have had those experiences where there\u2019s no money. And your ego can\u2019t be involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sweetin previously revealed that her struggles with alcohol began when she was just 14, after drinking at her Full House co-star Candace Cameron Bure\u2019s wedding in 1996.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was awful, and it was ugly, and it was embarrassing, and my mother was horrified,\u201d she said last year, while adding that something \u201cclicked\u201d for her at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018Ooooh, that was fun. You didn\u2019t give a sh*t about anything.\u2019 Like, you just, you don\u2019t remember it,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n
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