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Jodie Sweetin swears Olympics remark wasn't 'intentional dig' at TV sister Candace Cameron Bure but stands by it
@Source: ew.com
Jodie Sweetin is ready to talk about her relationship with her former sitcom sister Candace Cameron Bure following rumors of a feud between them.
The Full House and Fuller House alum specifically addressed the social media brouhaha over her Paris Olympics post last summer when asked about it on the latest episode of The Vault podcast.
Sweetin has long been an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, and many assumed that her Instagram Story calling out conservatives for incorrectly thinking the drag queens and artists in the opening-ceremony performance referenced Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper was targeted at Bure, who had called the show "disgusting."
The performance in question actually depicted the feast of Dionysus as a nod to Greek gods.
The Vault's Amir Yass said Sweetin's response to the backlash over the 2024 Olympic performance was eloquent. "'Tell us you don't know about art,'" he said, quoting her. "You were speaking about her..."
But Sweetin interjected. "To be honest, I wasn't speaking about her," she said.
"There was already something that had happened where we went on a divergent path," she continued, "and then I saw the Olympics thing and how people were freaking out about it, so I said, 'Oh my God, tell me you don't know anything about art history without telling me you know nothing,' and everyone was like, 'She came for Candace!'"
Sweetin said the reaction online surprised her. "And I was like, 'What the…?' I was like getting a massage or something, and I came out to all of this, and I was like, 'What did I…? Oh, she said….ohhhhhh. Well, I guess that's it!'"
Still, whether her diss was aimed at Bure or not, the actress stands by it. "I'm not changing anything I said," she stressed. "But it was not an intentional dig. But it was still what I wanted to say."
When one of The Vault's hosts said the pair had "gotten into it" before over their differing views, Sweetin corrected her. "It's funny, we've never actually 'gotten into it'," she said. "She posted her viewpoint and I posted mine, and we've always been very different on those things. I think it was just… now all of that comes to the surface more."
Sweetin, who played the middle Tanner child Stephanie on Full House and then later on Fuller House, elaborated on her dynamic with Bure, who played her older sister, D.J.
"Candace and I have just lived very different…lifestyles," she said. "We just exist in different worlds, but she is still someone I have known since I was 5 years old."
"It's like family members," she added. "Maybe we don't talk all the time, and I know if politics comes up it is not going to go well, but I don't hate you. I am not going to not hug you, but I'm also not going to not keep my mouth shut. So that's what I did. That's how I look at it. You don't want to follow or whatever, that's cool."
Sweetin concluded, "I'll be nice, but I will not be quiet."
Sweetin chuckled over online speculation that they'd stopped being friends because Bure unfollowed her. "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 shit, particularly these days."
"Unfollow me, don't follow, whatevs," she continued. "People announce their departure. It's like, 'Cool, yeah, goodbye! You live in fucking Wyoming. I don't know you!' And if people I do know unfollow me because of what I passionately believe in, then we are just very different people."
Listen to the full interview with Sweetin on The Vault below.
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