Candace Cameron Bure says she had a near-death experience while filming the sequel to the beloved sitcom Full House. The actor said she almost died in an on-set accident in Fuller House.
Bure opened up about the accident with her former co-stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber on the How Rude, Tanneritos! podcast (via the New York Post). The TV star said she “almost died” when a stunt she was rehearsing for the series went wrong. It all has to do with a faulty zipline in question.
In the episode, Bure’s D.J. Tanner was going to do an obstacle course in the Tanner living room. It involved a zipline for the stunt. However, Bur said the stunt team didn’t set up the zipline correctly. The camera rig that followed her ended up missing her by only an inch.
“During rehearsal, the rig was not set up correctly and there was no safety stop on the end of it,” she said. “So, when I landed off the zipline and stopped, the whole mechanism – which is all metal and very, very heavy – slid right off the track and came right next to my head with an inch.”
“It dented the floor,” Barber also added.
“If I just even shifted my weight the tiniest bit, it would have probably broken my neck, like landed right on top of my head,” Bure added. “The stunt guy was fired. And [the director] was like, ‘We’re not doing this stunt. Like, redo the whole set, because we’re not doing that stunt anymore.’”
Candace Cameron Bure Says She’s A Victim Of Cancel Culture
Bure also said that she’s been taking figurative blows as well. The actor opened up about people trying to cancel her for her beliefs.
“I’ve taken punches before in my industry but it was at a level I hadn’t experienced yet, and it’s been very challenging,” she said on the Candace Cameron Bure Podcast. “Cancel culture is very real and they were trying to cancel me.”
She said she has handled a lot over the past few years.
“So when I had a lot of these bullets kind of hit me in the last year or so, they’ve been a really big challenge to me personally, to my heart, to my character, to my relationships, to my jobs,” she said. “You have to be ready for some of those fiery darts to be thrown at you in a bigger public platform.”