All I can think of is that it created some bad blood and seven years later, my presence was not wanted,” Lakin speculated Christine Lakin is shedding light on why fans never got to see her on Fuller House.
During a recent appearance on Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber’s podcast How Rude, Tanneritos!, the Step by Step star, 45, explained how close she came to Appearing on season 2 of the Netflix reboot. She said that she was approached for a role shortly after giving birth in September 2018 and was looking forward to getting back to work.
“About two days before the table read, I got a call from my manager saying, ‘Yes, something happened,’” she shared, recalling how they told her, “‘They’re pushing the table read. I think there’s some stuff with the script they want to rewrite.’” “The next day happened and my manager called and said, ‘Hey, I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’ve been let go,’ ” she continued. “And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, they just said they’re rewriting the character and they’re not going to need you anymore. And I was like, ‘What did I do wrong?’ I didn’t even go to a table read.”
Lakin said she asked a friend who wrote for the show what happened, but she couldn’t get an answer.
Then, the more she thought about it, Lakin speculated that it might have had something to do with the opportunity to work alongside Candace Cameron Bure.
“I participated in a Funny or Die video that a friend of mine made and at the time, Funny or Die had just come out,” she recalled. “Kirk Cameron [Cameron Bure’s brother] had said some public things about the LGBTQ community and I thought those were very damaging.”
