The Howard Stern Show” Tuesday that his alcoholism had once been so bad, that he completely forgot he was cast in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.” Even more, he doesn’t recall being on set.
According to the now-sober Stamos, he was hanging with cast mates Rita Wilson and Nia Vardalos in 2015 after being arrested for a DUI when they reminded him that he was expected to be filming in Toronto. “I was just with Rita Wilson and Nia [Vardalos] in Greece and I realized, I forgot that the next day [after the arrest] they said, ‘Oh, you got to go to Toronto, you’re in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2,’” Stamos, 60, recalled.Stamos told Stern, 69: “I’m like, ‘What?’ I was hammered.
I don’t remember being on that set.”The “Full House” alum, who plays Wilson’s Greek-American boyfriend in the 2016 film, said that the minute he returned home from Toronto he was confronted by several friends, family members and even his agents. “As soon as I came back from Toronto and ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding,’ my sisters were there and my agents, and everybody was like, ‘Okay!
It’s time,’” Stamos admitted. “It wasn’t even an intervention, it was like, ‘We packed your bags, you’re going.'”Stamos also noted in the interview that he wasn’t mad at the so-called intervention and that he “went [to rehab] for 30 days.”“I just knew it was time,” he continued. “That’s when I knew I was close to f–king up.”The star has not had another drink in the last eight years.
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