Everywhere they look, everywhere they go, the “Full House” cast will always have each other to hold onto. The lyrics of the hit sitcom’s theme song have rung all the more true in the aftermath of Tanner patriarch Bob Saget‘s untimely death at 65 years old in January. “It’s been a rough roller coaster,” Candace Cameron Bure, who played Saget’s oldest TV daughter, D.J.
Tanner, told ET’s Lauren Zima. “It’s hard to think that it’s almost a month. I still don’t believe that he’s gone.” Stung by the unexpected loss, Bure shared she’s “always waiting for him to text and chime in and make a joke.” “I’m like waiting, like, come on!
When is this gonna happen?” she said. “And I know it’s not going to happen.” In the midst of her grief, however, Bure has found the most comfort in the relationships she shares with Saget’s wife, Kelly Rizzo, his daughters, friends and their “Full House” family. “We’ve all been in really close contact and that was strangely one of the most unreal weeks of my life…from the week that he passed up into the funeral because we were all together every day practically 24 hours a day,” she said. “You know who your real friends are and who family is and you know who shows up and it means a lot and you don’t want to let go of that, so having that contact with everyone — that’s been the most helpful part of it… None of us are alone in grieving him.” And while they’ve always been bonded, losing Saget has made them come even more together. “If we could get any closer, which we’re already family, but we are,” Bure confirmed. “The relationships become even more precious the older we all get because you realize they could be gone tomorrow, so we’re texting even more, we’re talking even more, we’re hanging out even
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