Full House star Dave Coulier had a very full heart upon learning that he was officially cancer-free and had become a grandfather on the very same day.
The actor and comedian, who played Uncle Joey on the beloved ABC sitcom and its Netflix revival, Fuller House, recalled on a recent episode of the How Rude, Tanneritos! podcast how he was informed that he’d beaten stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that his son, Luc, and daughter-in-law, Alex, had welcomed their first child together in the span of just 24 hours.
“I got the good news the day the baby was born,” Coulier told his former castmates Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber. “So I heard the news and I was so excited, and then Luc called us and he said, ‘Hey, the baby just was born.’ And so, I mean, it was an amazing day.”
Sweetin and Barber expressed amazement that the windfall of good news landed all at once, and Coulier agreed. “It was really amazing, you know?” he said. “So we were like, ‘Oh, this is just too much!'”
Coulier, 65, noted that Luc and Alex welcomed a “healthy, great little baby” named Chance Lee. “He’s 7 pounds, 6 ounces, and we will see him, I think, in 12 days,” he added. “Because we’re in Michigan and they’re out in Sacramento.”
The comedian also recalled feeling like he’d accidentally “killed the moment” after delivering a real stinker of a joke in the family group chat following the announcement of Chance’s birth.
“I said to my son — everybody was teary-eyed and everything and [was] texting when the baby was born — and I said, ‘I cannot wait to see that kid’s expression on his face after he pulls my finger for the first time,'” Coulier recalled. “And there was just like, no one responded. It’s like, ‘Okay. I killed the moment.'”
Thankfully, he explained that Luc messaged him back a few minutes later, telling him, “I just got that.”
Barber, who has two children with husband Jeremy Rytky, teased, then “They’re sleep-deprived. Give ’em grace. They’re sleep-deprived.”
Coulier previously confirmed that he was cancer-free in statement April 1, five months after announcing that he’d been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
“I’d like to give a heartfelt thank you to family, friends and fans for their continued prayers, love and support throughout my emotional roller coaster ride through cancer,” he said via a representative. “I will continue to encourage others to check in with doctors to get early screenings like breast exams, colonoscopies and prostate exams.”
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The good news was celebrated at the time by his Full House costars Candace Cameron Bure and John Stamos, the latter of whom posted an Instagram video of the moment Coulier shared the update over FaceTime.
“He fought like hell with strength and heart and true to form [for] Dave, a whole lot of humor,” Stamos said as he narrated the clip. “We’d FaceTime constantly during the toughest days, trying to find something, anything to laugh about. And somehow Dave always managed to crack a joke and lift the mood and remind me and himself that joy still exists in the hardest moments.”
Listen to Coulier on How Rude, Tanneritos! above for more.
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