“With alcohol, I was covering all that up. I should be feeling this incredible love for these people,” he added. I thought to myself, ‘This is what I should be doing.'” “There was nothing masking that, there were no layers that were covering that up. “I thought to myself after those three lives were gone, I would’ve never been able to feel all of that if I was drinking and it was really important to me to just feel that sorrow,” he noted. Coulier and Saget met on the standup comedy circuit before “Full House.” WireImage The standup comic explained that processing these deaths was made easier by sobriety. “The last thing I said to him was ‘Have a great show tonight.’ That was my last real connection with Bob.” “He was texting me and making me laugh and we were texting back and forth and making each other laugh very hard,” he said. “And then my father passed away a couple of months ago and I got to say all the of the things that a son could say to his father about how proud I was.” Coulier and Saget both starred in the family sitcom “Full House.” Disney General Entertainment ConĬoulier also revealed that his last conversation with his “Full House” costar was the day that Saget passed. “I made jokes to my friends and family and the line was, ‘Boy, I sure picked the wrong time in my life to stop drinking.’ And people would laugh at that knowing I was sober,” explained Coulier, who announced his sobriety earlier this year.
A part of me died that day, as well, because I really loved my brother.” I was the one who found him at my dad’s house down in the basement. “My brother took his own life and he was actually the funniest person I’ve ever known. “I definitely went through the sorrow hat trick, so to speak,” Coulier told Hall. In an upcoming episode of “Tamron Hall,” via People, the comedian, 62, opens up about losing so many people close to him. Bob Saget allegedly said he didn’t ‘feel good’ on night of his deathĭave Coulier credits sobriety with letting him feel “the pain” of losing his brother, father and close pal Bob Saget within the space of a year.