The performance in question actually depicted thefeast of Dionysusas 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.
Jodie Sweetin in 2024; Candace Cameron Bure in 2024.Credit:Charley Gallay/Getty; Danielle Del Valle/Getty
“You were speaking about her…”
But Sweetin interjected.
“To be honest, I wasn’t speaking about her,” she said.
Sweetin said the reaction online surprised her.
Jodie Sweetin and Candace Cameron Bure at an event in 2019.Rich Fury/KCA2019/Getty
“And I was like, ‘What the…?’
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.
Jodie Sweetin and Candace Cameron Bure at an event in 2019.Rich Fury/KCA2019/Getty
But it was still what I wanted to say.”
“It’s funny, we’ve never actually ‘gotten into it’,” she said.
I think it was just… now all of that comes to the surface more."
Candace Cameron Bure and Jodie Sweetin on ‘Full House’ in 1987.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
“Candace and I have just lived very different…lifestyles,” she said.
“It’s like family members,” she added.
I am not going tonothug you, but I’m also not going tonotkeep 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.”
“I’m not gonna unfollow anybody!”
“I don’t live my life based on social media.
“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!’
Listen to the full interview with Sweetin onThe Vaultbelow.
