Inside Jodie Sweetin’s rocky road to love after meth addiction & three divorces as Full House star reveals engagement
FULL House alum Jodie Sweetin had a long road to find love with her new fiance Mescal Wasilewski, to whom she got engaged to on Monday. The 39-year-old had a long battle with drugs over the years and was in and out of relationships, including three previous marriages. On Monday night, Jodie revealed she’s engaged […]
FULL House alum Jodie Sweetin had a long road to find love with her new fiance Mescal Wasilewski, to whom she got engaged to on Monday.
The 39-year-old had a long battle with drugs over the years and was in and out of relationships, including three previous marriages.
On Monday night, Jodie revealed she’s engaged to her longtime boyfriend Mescal, just one week after the death of her friend and former co-star, Bob Saget.
Before finding love with her new fiance, Jodie struggled with drugs and with her previous romantic relationships.
The actress, who is now sober, started drinking after her time playing Stephanie Tanner on Full House had come to an end.
She recalled having “two bottles of wine” at co-star Candace Cameron Bure’s wedding when she was just 14 years old.
“That first drink gave me the self-confidence I had been searching for my whole life,” Jodie wrote in her 2009 memoir, unSweetined. “But that set the pattern of the kind of drinking that I would do.”
Her downward spiral only continued from there, with drugs like meth and ecstasy being added to the mix.
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Over the next decade, she found herself in and out of rehab throughout her teens and 20s.
Ecstasy was her drug of choice in high school, but after she entered college, cocaine became her new go-to.
A couple of years after getting married to her first husband, police officer Shaun Golguin, in 2002 when she was 20, Jodie tried meth for the first time.
A few months later, she said she was hooked and was doing it often.
So often, she recalled, that she was high on meth during the 2004 daytime premiere for co-star Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen‘s movie New York Minute.
She told People in 2008: ”Everything revolved around my addiction. On a typical day I’d wake up and feel terrible because I hadn’t done any.
“You’re either trying to get it, doing it or worrying about when you’re going to get it next. You don’t even realize that it’s taken over so quickly.”
Though she lost a lot of weight during this time – going from 130 pounds to 100 pounds – no one knew why until she ended up in the hospital in 2005 from partying too much.
Jodie decided to admit to her loved ones that she had a problem and entered into an in-patient treatment center and later a sober-living house.
The actress told the outlet that all of this led to major “trust issues” with her husband Shaun and the two ended up getting a divorce.
In 2007, during her time working on Fuse’s Pants-Off Dance-Off, she met her second husband, Cody Herpin.
He worked as a transportation coordinator on film and TV sets, and after the duo met in May, they had a whirlwind romance and got married just a couple of months later, in July.
A little under a year later, she welcomed her first child with Cody, daughter Zoie, who is now 13.
The wedded bliss was short-lived, and Jodie filed for separation from her second husband a few months after their daughter was born.
Before a later car accident led to Jodie falling off the wagon, she had gotten sober in December 2008 after hitting “rock bottom.”
She was in the middle of her custody battle with Cody and had started getting high again and had even driven with her daughter in the car after having multiple glasses of wine.
The Fuller House star wrote: ”From that day forward, I threw myself into going to AA and avoided people who do blow off their coffee tables.”
In mid-2010, she and Cody had their divorce finalized.
By that time, she had moved on with a new boyfriend, Morty Coyle, a DJ, and the two were expecting a child.
Their daughter Beatrix, who is now 11, was born later in 2010, and Jodie and Morty became engaged in 2011 and married in 2012.
Just a year later, the two split and Jodie filed for separation.
Also in 2013, she had a relapse after being given pain meds for a car accident she was in.
The rocky road to finding love with her new fiance, Mescal, continued with her filing for divorce from Morty in 2015 and finalizing it in 2016.
By the time she’d filed the paperwork, she’d once again found herself in a new relationship, this time with boyfriend Justin Hodak.
After getting engaged in 2016, the pair split a year later, and he soon after found himself in legal trouble and was sentenced to more than six years in jail.
In a plea deal, he pleaded “no contest” to charges of falsifying evidence by threatening a witness and possession of a deadly weapon.
A few years later, Jodie continued to work on her sobriety, getting and staying clean, and has moved on with her new love, Mescal, a therapist in Los Angeles.
Monday night, Jodie took to Instagram to share that the two had gotten engaged, showing off her massive engagement ring and smiling while her soon-to-be husband cuddled close to her.
After sharing a quote from legendary poet Maya Angelou, Jodie, who first confirmed their romance in 2018, captioned the snap: “I love you Mescal, for always. You’re my person. I can’t wait to see the life that lies ahead for us.
“Here’s to us, @ghostfacelito and our life of adventures. Together.”
She added: “I think I’m really gonna like turning 40.”
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