What Candace Cameron Bure's Relationship Is Like With Her Full House Co-Stars

Andrea Barber and Candace Cameron Bure's friendship seems to be going strong: after decades of acting as sisters, they're still sharing birthday messages from each other on social media and working together on new projects. Bure was especially proud of Barber for her 2019 memoir, in which the actor opened up about her lifelong struggles with mental health. "It's so open and honest and healing for those who read it," Bure wrote on Instagram at the time, urging her followers to buy it. "Thank you, my beautiful friend," Barber responded in the comment section.

And in 2022, Barber was cast in a new Christmas film Bure was producing for Great American Family. "Having a 30-year bestie friendship both on and off camera has allowed me to find the perfect project to introduce the Christmas genre audience to her brilliant comedic skills, her heartwarming authenticity and vulnerability that is a rare gem today," Bure told Deadline, revealing that "Christmas on Candy Cane Lane" would also feature "Virgin River" star Dan Payne. "Just as I have, audiences will fall in love with Andrea's warmth and relatability, and chuckle along with her all the way down Candy Cane Lane."

After Bure's controversial interview with The Wall Street Journal, Barber commented on their friendship and working with GAC Family. She expressed her love for Bure throughout the peaks and valleys of life, writing on Instagram, "We don't agree on every issue, and that's okay! Our friendship is stronger than our differences." Barber expressed her hope that Great American Family will represent all kinds of families.

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Although Candace Cameron Bure has been criticized for her remarks about the LGBTQ+ community, her "Fuller House" co-star Juan Pablo Di Pace insisted that the whole set was supportive of his sexuality when he publicly came out. The actor, who plays Kimmy Gibbler's romantic interest Fernando, announced that he was gay in a TEDx talk in 2019 and declared that it was not an issue on the sitcom. "I'm very lucky to be part of a cast that really is like my second family," he told ET, adding that his co-stars had shown him a lot of love. "We are there for each other all the time and we support each other like any family. There are things that go wrong or things to celebrate and we really are there for each other."

Di Pace also reported that Bure gave him advice when he appeared on "Dancing With the Stars," since she had previously been on the show and made it to the finals with her partner Mark Ballas. "Both Jodie and Candace did really well on the show, so I better not embarrass them," the actor joked, per ET. Bure revealed that she had encouraged him to manage his stress and let his personality shine through, reassuring Di Pace that America was going to be infatuated with him. "He's a good dancer," she added. "He's a good Latin dancer!"

Candace Cameron Bure opened up about her relationship with Bob Saget after the patriarch of "Full House" died in 2022. "I don't know what to say. I have no words," Bure wrote on Twitter, with a broken heart emoji, after the sad news broke. "Bob was one of the best human beings I've ever known in my life. I loved him so much."

As she noted in another post, the pair had known each other since Bure was a 10-year-old child actor. "My childhood is wrapped up in you, my formative teenaged years and the rest of adulthood. ... You weren't just like a father, but one of my closest friends in life," Bure wrote. She also revealed that the pair had developed certain routines over the course of their friendship: Saget would text long rants to make her laugh, or tell her what not to watch. "You were always so protective of me, and cared about everything," she remembered.

Bure has often reminisced about the early days on set, when Saget told a lot of dirty jokes, assuming that they would go over her head. "I kind of played dumb," she previously told People. "It was fun to hear those things, but I didn't want the adults to know that I totally understood." After his death, she revealed that those memories of the show were comforting, but she couldn't rewatch any of it yet. "It's hard for me to hear his voice. It makes me sad," the star admitted to People.

Candace Cameron Bure met her husband thanks to her "Full House" co-star Dave Coulier, who invited her to a charity hockey game, per HuffPost.

"Hey, there are these two really good Russian hockey players," Coulier reportedly told her, referring to Valeri Bure and his brother Pavel. It was love at first sight for the young actor, who went to the game with Lori Loughlin. "I was like, 'I want to meet that one, the blonde one,' which was Val," Candace recalled. "And that was it." The pair began a whirlwind romance and were planning their wedding less than a year later, all due to her on-screen pal Joey. The couple thanked him with a meaningful gift. "Dave Coulier still has a hockey stick that my husband signed for him that says, 'Thanks for Candace,'" Bure told HuffPost.

She also grew closer to Coulier after Bob Saget's death. "This has been one of the hardest weeks of my life and yet, incredibly beautiful because of family and close friends," Bure wrote after the news broke, posting a picture herself wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with Saget's name while she was walking with Coulier. "Yesterday was a better day. We walked, we laughed, we reminisced," the actor told her followers, emphasizing her love for the "Full House" cast members. "I think that's all you'll hear from me again. I love you," Bure told Coulier, joking: "Don't be annoyed."

After Candace Cameron Bure upset JoJo Siwa with her comments about "traditional marriage" and her plan to exclude same-sex couples from her Christmas movies, the dancer and singer received support from an unexpected source. Jodie Sweetin, who played middle child Stephanie Tanner on "Full House," commented on Siwa's Instagram post about the issue and wrote: "You know I love you." Siwa told People about the comment, "That meant a lot because [Sweetin] is a really kind, good human who is doing good for the world."

Given that Siwa's post accused Bure of being "rude and hurtful to a whole community," this supportive comment demonstrated that Sweetin wasn't going to defend her co-star. And Bure seemed to notice this development since she unfollowed her former on-screen sister, as Page Six reported. Although Bure did attend Sweetin's wedding earlier in the year, it's possible that this feud has been brewing for years. A source told ET, "They have different views and opinions..." noting that Sweetin "is progressive in her beliefs and Candace is very religious in hers."

Sweetin, who previously voiced her political beliefs at pro-abortion demonstrations, didn't back down amid the disagreement with her former co-star. As Us Weekly reported, she reposted a reflection from Holly Robinson Peete (which someone else had shared with the actor) defending the LGBTQ+ community instead. "...when we hear the words 'traditional' marriage to describe one type of marriage it belittles the love and commitment that many legally married people have for each other," the message read, in part.