{"id":248919,"date":"2026-06-28T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/jodie-sweetin-behaved-worse-at-school-to-fit-in\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:00:20","slug":"jodie-sweetin-behaved-worse-at-school-to-fit-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/jodie-sweetin-behaved-worse-at-school-to-fit-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodie Sweetin behaved  &#8216;worse&#8217; at school to fit in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-06-28\" datetime=\"1782633620\" pubdate=\"\">28 June 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jodie-sweetin\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jodie-sweetin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jodie Sweetin<\/a> took drugs as a teenager so her classmates didn&#8217;t think she was &#8220;stuck up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Jodie Sweetin deliberately behaved badly at school<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old actress &#8211; who has spoken in the past about her struggles with addiction &#8211; worried about what people would think of her once her time as Stephanie Tanner on Full House came to an end in 1995 so she was determined to act &#8220;worse&#8221; than other young people to stop her high school peers from turning on her.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Michael Rosenbaum on his Inside of You podcast, she said: \u201cI had this weird, I&#8217;ll say, I had this, particularly after the show ended, like, in high school, there was this strange feeling that I had, because everyone assumed I was quote unquote a TV star. So, like, you know, the rumor before you would even start at a school was like, \u2018Oh, she&#8217;s a stuck-up b****.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to prove them wrong. So it was like, in order to make myself palatable and make other people feel like I wasn&#8217;t trying to be better than them, I would try to be worse than them. So like, \u2018I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m better than you. I&#8217;ll get more f***** up. I&#8217;ll do more drugs.&#8217; \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jodie, who joined Full House when she was just five years old, admitted she spent years struggling with her identity and questioning if people only liked her because of her fame.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said:\u201cYou keep going, and then that becomes who you are, you know. I spent most of my life through my, probably, mid-30s being like, \u2018Do you love me? Do you love me?&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n \u201cI had no idea [who I was]. I had to make a mess of relationships, I had to cheat, I had to lie.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI had to get involved with really severely toxic, scary people, but I had to get through all that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8221; It really has, sort of, rocketed me all of that into this place where around my mid-30s, I was just like, \u2018Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I think I\u2019ve been doing this all wrong.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter getting sober, Jodie &#8211; who is married to Mescal Wasilewski and has two kids from her previous marriages &#8211; entered therapy and &#8220;dug in&#8221; to uncover the moments from her past that had shaped her life and soon realised she had hardly ever made her own decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: \u201cI went through it, but I had to be like, \u2018What did I choose? What did I bring to this and why?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I realised I just, sort of, let everyone else make choices for me, and I never really even asked myself, \u2018What do you want?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI\u2019m glad that I was able to look at it, reflect on it and really dig into it and be willing to be like, \u2018All right, back to therapy we go.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThen you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, wait. This actually turns out this actually feels way better, like, I actually don\u2019t hate myself and I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m trying to be anybody other than me.\u2019 &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/jodie-sweetin-behaved-worse-school-fit-1446643.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 June 2026 Jodie Sweetin took drugs as a teenager so her classmates didn&#8217;t think she was &#8220;stuck up&#8221;. 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