Candace Cameron Bure is revealing she “almost died” on the set of Fuller House. And “that’s not an exaggeration,” her co-star Andrea Barber, who played Kimmy Gibbler, confirmed. While reminiscing about their “Full House” and “Fuller House” days on their podcast, the “She Wolf sisters” as they call themselves, described a particularly traumatizing day on “Fuller House.” According to the actresses, while filming the spinoff, they got to do most of their own stunts on the show.
And while that was fun most of the time, one particular day turned dangerous for Cameron Bure, who played DJ Tanner.
“Do we remember, I will never forget, the day that we were doing the stunt in the living room that had that sliding thing,” Jodie Sweetin, who played Stephanie Tanner, began, before Cameron Bure chimed in saying, “The day I almost died?”
“How could I forget,” she continued. “Yeah, that’s not even an exaggeration,” Barber added. “I still have PTSD over that.” That’s when they described how it all went down. “We were doing a stunt,” Sweetin continued, “The stunt was American Ninja Warrior, DJ wanted to do the American Ninja Warrior.” And so a zip line was set up through the living room. “As one does,” Sweetin continued.
“And so I went through the course, and at the end I zip line diagonally the length of the living room,” Cameron Bure explained, “and then I land on platform. But during rehearsal, the rig was not set up correctly and there was no safety stop on the end of it.” So when Cameron Bure landed on the platform and stopped, “the whole mechanism” made entirely of heavy metal “slid right off the track and came right next to my head within an inch.” When it ultimately missed Cameron Bure, it hit the floor and dented it before breaking the stairs.
Cameron Bure said Scott Weinger, who played DJ’s boyfriend turned husband Steve Hale, saw the whole thing happen in real time and couldn’t get a word out because it all happened so fast. “If I would have shifted my weight the tiniest bit, it probably would have broken my neck,” Cameron Bure says.
