As he faces most cancers for the second time since 2024, actor Dave Coulier is extremely conscious of the facility of constructive pondering.
“It’s the whole lot,” Coulier mentioned of staying constructive in a current interview with CURE.
Finest identified for his position within the sitcom “Full Home,” Coulier, 66, introduced on Dec. 2 that he had been recognized with early-stage tongue most cancers, often known as oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, in October. This prognosis got here seven months after he introduced that he was cancer-free from non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which he had been recognized with in 2024.
Coulier, in dialog with CURE, mirrored on the significance of laughter in life and shared reminiscences of bonding together with his pal and co-star Bob Saget, who died in 2022.
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You’re somebody who has introduced pleasure and laughter to so many individuals. How necessary is staying constructive proper now?
The one factor most cancers will not be going to take — I am going to say a few issues: most cancers cannot take away my love of different folks. It could possibly’t take away my creativity, and it positive as hell will not be going to take the laughter out of my life, and laughter is basically necessary.
And Bob Saget was a brother to me, and Bob may very well be very darkish. And there was a time when Bob misplaced each of his sisters and I misplaced my sister on the identical time, and we may very well be very darkish with one another, and that was simply our approach, darkish gallows humor, however we laughed our approach by all of that stuff, as painful because it was. Being comedians, we went to a really darkish place that we knew would strike a nerve with each of us, as a result of we have heard each joke, we have written each joke, we have mentioned each joke. For us, we needed to do an actual deep dive with one another to essentially mine what’s humorous about this, and we did. I hear Bob’s voice in my head quite a bit, saying humorous issues to me. I want I might name him.
He is really missed. I noticed John Stamos this previous weekend at Metal Metropolis Con in Pittsburgh, and John and I referenced Bob most likely at the least a dozen occasions, like, “If Bob was right here.” And we did a panel and talked to 500 or so folks in a convention room, and we had been making Bob jokes, and other people had been asking us about Bob. He is simply such part of our lives. We had been just like the three amigos. It was a lot enjoyable, the three of us being collectively. However we will maintain his spirit alive ceaselessly.
Transcript has been edited for readability and conciseness.
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