Jodie Sweetin Reveals Where She Stands with Candace Cameron Bure Given Their ‘Very Different Lifestyles’

• Jodie Sweetin reflected on her family-like dynamic with Candace Cameron Bure on a podcast appearance this week, as she said they “exist” in “very different worlds.”
• Bure faced major backlash in 2022 after she said the Great American Family network, which she was chief creative officer for, would be focusing on stories about “traditional marriage” rather than same-sex couples.
• Sweetin and Bure starred as sisters Stephanie and D.J. Tanner on Full House from 1987 to 1995, later reprising those roles on Fuller House from 2016 to 2020.

Jodie Sweetin is clearing things up about where she and Candace Cameron Bure stand, given their differing viewpoints on some hot topics.

On the Tuesday, April 28 episode of The Vault podcast, Sweetin, 43, said she and her former Full House costar “never actually got into it” over their opposing takes when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community.

“She posted her viewpoint and I posted mine. We’ve always been very different on those things,” Sweetin said of Bure, who came under fire in 2022 for saying she’d be keeping “traditional marriage at the core” of Great American Family’s programming rather than telling stories about same-sex couples.

“Candace and I – we just live very different lifestyles. We just exist in sort of very different worlds, but she is still someone I have known since I was 5 years old,” Sweetin continued of how their relationship looks today.

“It’s like family members, where you’re like, maybe we don’t talk all the time — and I know if politics come up, it is not going to go well — but I don’t hate you,” she said. “I am not going to not hug you, but I am also not gonna keep my mouth shut.”

During the podcast episode, Sweetin also weighed in on what fans assumed was a clapback from her after Bure, 49, shared that she found the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony “disgusting” because she felt it “completely blasphemed…the Christian faith with their interpretation of the Last Supper.”

When Sweetin reposted a video on her own Instagram Stories explaining that the opening ceremonies scene was actually an interpretation of the Greek god Dionysus, fans assumed she was directly opposing Bure’s take.

“To be honest, I wasn’t even speaking about her,” Sweetin revealed. “There was already some thing that had happened where we went [on] very divergent paths on something we said – and then I saw the Olympics thing and I saw all these people freaking out about it, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, tell me you know nothing about art history without telling me you know nothing,’ and then everyone was like, ‘She came for Candace!’ And I was like, ‘What the?'”

Sweetin also addressed Bure unfollowing her on Instagram in the aftermath of her controversial statement about Great American Family three years ago.

“I’m not gonna unfollow anybody,” she said. “I don’t live my life based on social media. I think it can be used for some great things, and I also think it can be really negative and full of a lot of s––, particularly these days.”

In the weeks after Bure’s controversial comment about “traditional marriage” — which caused a dramatic public spat between her and JoJo Siwa — Sweetin was clear about her support for “LGBTQ communities,” which she told Entertainment Tonight she’d “always been an outspoken ally” for.

“I’ve always tried to fight for equality and love for everyone,” she said at the time.

Bure released a lengthy statement following the backlash to her comments, telling PEOPLE it “absolutely breaks my heart that anyone would ever think I intentionally would want to offend and hurt anyone.”

“All of you who know me, know beyond question that I have great love and affection for all people,” she said. “It saddens me that the media is often seeking to divide us, even around a subject as comforting and merry as Christmas movies.”