“We live very different lives,” Sweetin recently explained on the “The McBride Rewind” podcast.

Jodie Sweetin reveals if she has a relationship with Full House costars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen today

“We live very different lives,” Sweetin recently explained on the “The McBride Rewind” podcast.

By Kathleen Perricone

April 27, 2026 4:35 p.m. ET

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- Jodie Sweetin opens up about her relationship with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who played her younger sister Michelle on *Full House*.

- Sweetin revealed on *The McBride Rewind* podcast that the three "haven't talked" as much over the years.

- In 2022, the whole cast spent quality time together following the sudden death of Bob Saget.

The Tanner girls didn’t just play sisters on TV. Offscreen, “it was a real family,” says Jodie Sweetin, who played middle daughter Stephanie on *Full House*.

When the ABC sitcom debuted in 1987, the youngest Tanner, Michelle, was portrayed by six-month-old twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. At the time, Sweetin was 5, but she felt a genuine bond with her onscreen sisters, including Candace Cameron Bure (DJ Tanner), especially as they grew up together over the show’s eight-season run.

From the very beginning, “I loved them,” Sweetin recalled on a recent episode of *The McBride Rewind* podcast hosted by Josh McBride. “I was really close to Ashley and Mary-Kate… I would go to their room and hang out and play with them.”

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In real life, Sweetin was an only child, so she relished the role of being an older sister.

Off the set, “they would come spend the night at my house. They’d come to my cabin on the weekends with my parents and I. We’d go horseback riding. We would go to Disneyland. I mean, I’ve got pictures of us playing dress up at my house; they're like three, I’m like six, you know, just kid stuff and I loved it.”

When *Full House* ended in 1995, a whole new career began for the Olsen Twins. They costarred in a handful of direct-to-video movies that went on to launch them as preteen superstars. As for Sweetin, she fell into years of drug abuse before ultimately getting sober in 2008.

On 'Full House,' Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen shared the role of Michelle.

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Over the two decades since, they “haven’t talked” as much simply because their lives took very different trajectories, revealed Sweetin.

“People are like, ‘Oh, well, do you guys not talk? Is it bad?’ They were 8 years old when the show finished. We weren’t as close as we were,” she explained to McBride. “We would see each other at, you know, our family events and dinners and it wasn’t like there was bad blood between any of us, but they moved to New York and then, you know, got married and were a fashion empire and sort of moved into that world and, you know, so it was like we just sort of drifted apart.”

The television family did occasionally meet up over the years. At the 2004 premiere of the Olsen Twins’ movie, *New York Minute*, they were joined on the red carpet by “sisters” Sweetin and Cameron Bure, as well as Bob Saget, who played their onscreen father Danny Tanner.

But it wasn’t until 2022, when Saget suddenly passed away, that the entire *Full House* cast reunited. “And it was just like it was before,” recalled Sweetin. “It was normal. We all, you know, spent like four days just constantly together… and it was like nothing had changed.”

'Full House' alums reunited in 2004 for 'New York Minute' premiere with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

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The following year, when Ashley welcomed her first child, Sweetin gushed about the new member of the *Full House* family on her podcast with Andrea Barber, *How Rude, Tanneritos*.

Sweetin’s relationship with her “older sister,” however, has been complicated in recent years. The two are on different ends of the political spectrum, with Cameron Bure a conservative Christian and Sweetin an outspoken supporter of the LGBTQ+ community and reproductive rights.

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“This is just who I am and what I believe, and if that isn’t something we share, cool,” Sweetin told McBride. “I’m not going to change anything. I can still have a relationship with her where I can hug her when I see her. I love her. I don’t want bad things to happen to her. I will respect her, and her ability to do whatever.”

Watch Sweetin's full conversation in the video above.

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