Sweetin shared her own two cents on the Paris 2024 opening ceremonies after Bure said they “blasphemed…the Christian faith”
Jodie Sweetin is sharing her thoughts on the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony after her former costar Candace Cameron Bure made some controversial comments.
In a video posted on her Instagram on July 27, Bure, 48, said that “the opening ceremonies completely blasphemed and mock the Christian faith with their interpretation of the Last Supper,” which she called “disgusting.”
Two days later, Sweetin, 42, reacted to the controversy on her Instagram Stories as she reposted a video that explained how the opening ceremonies scene was an interpretation of the story of the Greek god Dionysus.
“Tell me you don’t know about art or history without TELLING me you don’t know about art and history,” she wrote over the video, in which comedian Walter Masterson explained the connection between ancient Greek mythology and the roots of the Olympic Games.
“Why would the Olympics have anything to do with the Last Supper?” he asked in the video Sweetin reposted. “The painting of the Last Supper – that’s not even French. It’s Italian!”
The controversial scene featured in the July 26 opening ceremony was interpreted by some, including Bure, to be a depiction of the Last Supper painting by DaVinci featuring drag queens. And in her video, the actress said it made her “so sad.”
“Someone said, you shouldn’t be sad, you should be mad about it,” the Make It or Break It alum said. “And I’m like, trust me, it makes me mad, but I’m more sad because I’m sad for souls.”
In the caption of her post, she addressed the Dionysus references, calling him “a god of lust, insanity, religious ecstasy, ritual madness etc” and that she still doesn’t “see how that relates to unifying the world through competitive sports and acceptable for children to watch.”
The Olympics is not the first time that Bure has made controversial comments that have elicited a response from her Full House costar.
In 2022, she faced backlash for saying the Great American Family network, on which she serves as chief creative officer, would not feature same-sex couples in its holiday movies, but rather “keep traditional marriage at the core.”
She later told PEOPLE of the response to her comments, “It absolutely breaks my heart that anyone would ever think I intentionally would want to offend and hurt anyone.”
Sweetin was then clear about being an “outspoken ally for LGBTQ communities,” as she told Entertainment Tonight just a month after Bure’s comments that she’s “always tried to fight for equality and love for everyone.”
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Last year, one of her films was sold to Bure’s channel, Craft Me a Romance, and she told PEOPLE in a statement that she was “very surprised to learn” of the sale and pledged to give back.
“I am disappointed, but in keeping with my mission of supporting the LGBTQ+ family, any potential or future money made from this sale will be donated to LGBTQ+ organizations.”
