unSweetined: A Memoir

As most of America in my age group, I was a fan of Full House growing up.  And recently, I binge watched Fuller House on Netflix.  And somewhere along the way, I started following Jodie Sweetin on Instagram.  But never having been one to pay attention to the tabloids, I have to say that unSweetined was a huge eye opener for me.

Jodie's memoir was raw, emotional and yet at time humorous.  She states up front that as of the writing of this book in 2009, she's still newly sober.  Then she delves into her time on Full House and then the spiral down after the show wrapped and she tried to be a normal teenager in school and college.  I honestly didn't have a clue that Jodie had an addiction problem or how series it was.  And in unSweetined, she doesn't pull many punches when she talks about all the drinking and drugs.  I'll admit that I can't imagine that lifestyle and even while reading it was hard to wrap my head around it.  But she's open about how she fell into addiction, the reasons why she kept falling off the wagon and finally what (hopefully) has turned her life around.

While the topic is hard to read, I was hooked on the story and was hoping Jodie would find some sort of peace in the end.  Seeing as this was written 15 (woah, what?) years ago, I'd be interested to see an honest update to her recovery story.