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Jodie Sweetin shared that she was “surprised” that her upcoming movie Craft Me A Romance was sold to the Great American Family transmission successful a connection to People on Friday, Aug. 11. While her former on-screen sister from Full House Candace Cameron Bure is the main contented officer, Jodie shared that she was upset astir the sale, but she had a plan. “I americium disappointed, but successful keeping with my ngo of supporting the LGBTQ+ family, immoderate imaginable oregon aboriginal wealth made from this merchantability volition beryllium donated to LGBTQ+ organizations,” she told the magazine.
Jodie, 41, admitted that she didn’t cognize what web bought the movie earlier learning it was Great American Family. “Sometimes, we, arsenic actors, don’t person power implicit which web buys the projects we are in, nor are we a portion of the process successful which they get sold,” she told People. “So I was precise amazed to larn by speechmaking astir it successful the property yesterday that the autarkic movie I worked connected implicit a twelvemonth agone was sold to Great American Family.”
Jodie revealed she was ‘disappointed’ that her movie was sold to GAF. (NINA PROMMER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)The Great American Family transmission (and Candace) faced overmuch backlash erstwhile the Full House star had said that the web would “keep accepted marriage astatine the core” successful a 2022 interrogation with The Wall Street Journal. Many radical believed that Candace’s comments were a flimsy against the LGBTQ+ community.
In the aftermath of Candace’s comments, Jojo Siwa, who had previously feuded with her, reignited her beef to telephone retired her comments connected Instagram, and Jodie showed support for Jojo. “Honestly, I can’t judge aft everything that went down conscionable a fewer months ago, that she would not lone make a movie with the volition of excluding LGBTQIA+, but past besides speech astir it successful the press,” the societal media prima said.
Jodie commented connected the post, “You cognize I emotion you,” which immoderate perceived arsenic a diss towards her Full House sister. Shortly aft the drama, Candace unfollowed Jodie connected Instagram. Following the backlash, Candace released a lengthy statement connected societal media. “I judge that each quality being bears the representation of God. Because of that, I americium called to emotion each people, and I do,” she wrote. “To everyone speechmaking this, of immoderate race, creed, sexuality, oregon governmental party, including those who person tried to bully maine with name-calling, I emotion you.”
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