Andrea Barber will appear on “The Dr. Oz Show” Wednesday where she will reveal her struggles with anxiety and depression, and she will open about Lori Loughlin and the college admission scandal.
Mentor: Barber said Loughlin used to be a big mentor for the girls on the set of “Full House.”
“Well, we were a very tight-knit family as I’ve talked about before. So all of the adults on the show, Bob Saget, John Stamos, Dave Coulier, they were all mentors but really Lori Loughlin. She was like our own Aunt Becky on the show and she was a mentor to us and any time we had an embarrassing scene like a first kiss on TV. Literally my first kiss was when I was 13 on camera in front of an audience of 200, in front of my parents. So that’s just not your traditional first kiss scenario and so I’d be really nervous.”
“So all of us, Candice, Jody and I, we would go to Lori and just be like, ‘What do we do?’ ‘How do you do this?’ ‘Is there a tongue, is there no tongue?’ She’d be like, ‘Calm down, it’s OK. It’ll all be fine. I’ll go talk to the boys and just set them straight,’ and just be like, ‘No tongue, be nice.’”
Forgiveness: Barber said she opened up about forgiveness and moving on, too.
“That’s a good question. I think it just has to do with unconditional love, and if you love someone like a family member, you can look past. Everybody has a past. Everybody has a history. Everybody has things that they’re not proud of, and you need to find your tribe and lean on those people that love you for who you are.”
Stress: Barber said she dealt with massive stress growing up as a child, too.
“I think it’s really an interesting concept growing up in the spotlight. I don’t know if I can say that that’s what caused my anxiety and depression. I think that that’s something that was just ingrained in me in the beginning, and it would have manifested its way no matter what. But yeah, it’s hard to say. I don’t blame Hollywood for any of this. But I do acknowledge the additional pressures.”
Barber appeared on the show to promote her new book, “FULL CIRCLE: From Hollywood to Real Life and Back Again,” which you can purchase anywhere books are sold.