John Stamos has been famous for most of his life.
The “Scream Queens” star toldCBS News, “I wanted to be famous so bad!
And then once I got it, I loved it.
I still do.”
However, that fame admittedly came with a darker side.
It meant Stamos didn’t need to grow up the way most people do.
“I went into becoming an adult kicking and screaming,” he reflected.
His youthful good looks helped.
“I was just skatin' through.”
In 2023, the 60-year-old Stamos released a memoir called “If You Would Have Told Me.”
The book surprised its own author, according to an interview withPeople.
Even though he may have had it easier than many, his life has still been full of change.
Learn about the stunning transformation of John Stamos, from childhood to fatherhood.
John Stamos was bullied as a child
John Stamos was born in 1963 in Cypress, California.
“I wouldn’t have moved forward with an anything-is-possible feeling.”
When he was younger, Stamos felt like he didn’t fit in with other kids.
“I really was the dorky kid,” he recalled.
“I was into magic and theme parks.
I was very innocent.”
As a result, Stamos faced a lot of bullying.
The girl’s boyfriend found out and punched him right in the eye.
“There was no counselors.
I was sort of really embarrassed about it.”
“I’ve got to do something,” Stamos remembered thinking.
“I’ve got to become famous.”
“Look, I’ve matured, I let go,” he said.
On “The View,” though, Stamos confessed, “It still bothers me.”
We play, watch sitcoms, and laze around on the couch" (viaTODAY).
However, sometimes her behavior took a turn.
“Sometimes, she gets weird, and it makes me feel weird, too.
Uncomfortable,” he wrote.
“She does strange stuff I don’t understand.”
Stamos toldPeoplethat he had never really grappled with the abuse until he started to write the book.
Writing the book, however, he couldn’t avoid recalling the experience.
“I shouldn’t have had to deal with those feelings,” he concluded.
John Stamos' fan-favorite General Hospital character
After John Stamos left high school, he skipped college.
Instead, he wanted to be an actor.
I wasn’t that guy."
Instead, early in his career, Stamos concentrated on doing things right.
Stamos later said that being on “General Hospital” taught him how to be on television.
Speaking withPop Entertainment, Stamos explained, “First and foremost you learn discipline.
You’ve got to be there every day and there’s a lot of dialogue.”
“I was very fortunate to break out and do other things,” he said.
Namely, it taught him that he didn’t like his nose.
“Fixating on my nose is beginning to detract from my performance.
Stamos decided to go under the knife.
“My nose looks kind of pushed up like Peter Pan or something,” he recalled.
In his book, Stamos fully admits the reason why he got it done.
He’d been chased there by excited fans, and the band’s security let him shelter there.
Stamos toldKelly Clarksonthat Beach Boys founding member Mike Love asked someone who he was.
That was the start of a long relationship between Stamos and the band.
He still tours with the band regularly, including setting sail on a Beach Boys-themed cruise.
“It’s over 34 years now or something like that,” he told Clarkson.
“What a treat in life.”
The kids, he said, were supposed to be in the background.
Over time, Stamos came to appreciate what was happening on screen.
“I finally said, ‘What am I doing?
It’s a beautiful show we built with sweetness and kindness,'” he said.
That all being said, Stamos did once get his co-stars fired.
He told “Live with Kelly and Mark” that the other kids were “semi-attractive at best.”
The coupling, however, was not built to last.
Stamos toldPeoplethat he didn’t recognize the “Who’s the Boss?”
“I remember running down the driveway with tears streaming down my face.”
He added, “Seeing him, realizing it was him and stuff, it was hard.
I mean, it was awful.”
According to Copley, that’s not how it happened.
“He just looked at me and shook his head, and walked away,” Copley claimed.
Stamos responded to her response in an interview withHoward Stern.
There was a happy ending, though!
The show “Who’s the Boss?”
was scheduled to air right before “Full House,” helping boost the latter show’s reputation.
That year, he metmodel and actor Rebecca Romijnbackstage at a Victoria’s Secret show.
“I fell stone head over heels in love,” he toldPeople.
“He had tears coming down his cheeks.
When I’m around her I want to be a better person.”
Unfortunately, the relationship went south, and their divorce was finalized in 2005.
Romijn-Stamos became Romijn once more.
“I felt that I became emasculated …
It wasn’t her fault,” he confessed.
In 2005, he joined the cast of the long-running NBC medical drama “ER” as Tony Gates.
Stamos recalled having auditioned for the show a decade earlier than when he was cast.
“I was so off … Producers weren’t impressed, and it took a while before they found the right role for him.
It seems that Tony Gates was, indeed, the right role.
“The Tony Gates character has a sense of humor which I really like,” Stamos said.
His son also has a child, meaning Jimmy’s suddenly a grandfather.
In other words, the show’s concept is: What if grandfathers could be hot?
“I’m a grandfather,” he said a bit mournfully.
“It’s a littletooclose to home,” Stamos said.
“It’s this bachelor guy who’s got it all, but he’s missing something in life.
What about a family, and what about a relationship?”
He elaborated, “I think I really should be a dad at some point.
I’ve gotta do something about this soon.”
He added, “My mother had enough love to fuel a small country.”
Peoplereported that the actor entered a rehab facility that July.
ViaEntertainment Weekly, a source told People that his mother’s death was related.
“He did his best to stay strong, but he absolutely fell apart,” the source said.
Stamos has been sober since.
He toldPeoplethat the experience was a wake-up call.
In particular, he was alarmed by paparazzi photos of his own arrest.
He uses those photos to remind himself not to drink anymore.
“It just makes me throw up right now just thinking [about it].
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An actor named Caitlin McHugh also starred in that episode.
“Some couples meet at work.
Some meet through friends.
Some on dating apps.
I met my wife on a TV show called SVU Law and Order,” Stamos later wrote onInstagram.
Stamos announced onInstagramin 2017 that he’d proposed.
It’s just chilling in their backyard.
Stamos showed it off in hisArchitectural Digesthome tour, and he explained the acquisition toOrange Coast Magazine.
“Michael Jackson wanted it, too,” Stamos claimed.
“But he got distracted and missed bidding on it.”
AsUs Weeklynoted, during the backyard reception that followed their 2018 wedding, the sign was on full display.
“We have the same morals and the same values, that all clicked nicely,” he explained.
“So we said, ‘Oh, well, maybe we should have a family.'”
It was McHugh who decided that they should get right to it, even before the wedding.
After all, she told Stamos, “You’re old.”
In April 2018, Stamos announced onInstagramthat McHugh had given birth to a son.
“From now on, the best part of me will always be my wife and my son.
Welcome Billy Stamos,” he wrote, noting that his son now bore his father’s name.
The actor had talked about wanting to be a dad for years, and now the moment had arrived.
Stamos appears to have taken to the challenge quite nicely.
He frequently shares snaps with his son online, letting his fans see what a good dad he is.
“It’s better than I imagined,” he concluded.
“I wanted kids my whole life.
And I’m just so grateful.”
First, his publicist called him to say that TMZ was looking for confirmation Saget had died.
Stamos assumed it was a hoax.
Rizzo called Stamos back.
When he heard her crying, he knew.
I don’t have exclusive rights, but the loss is personal, painful, and beyond belief.”
Stamos was a pallbearer at Saget’s funeral.
“Today will be the hardest day of my life,” he wrote onTwitter.
“That’s our lesson and that’s for sure,” he said.
