Why John Stamos Says He "Hated" Full House & Almost Quit

John Stamos is looking back on his relationship with ex-wife Rebecca Romijn with a little more mercy these days.

The Full House alum admitted that it was "really difficult" to detail their marriage in his upcoming memoir If You Would Have Told Me because it opened his eyes on the skewed view he had of the X-Men star during their separation.

"My first marriage was shattering to me. I was shattered for way too long, too," Stamos told People in an interview published Oct. 18. "In my mind back then, she was the Devil, and I just hated her."

The 60-year-old continued, "I couldn't believe how much I hated her, and it ruined my life. Looking back, and I talk about it [in the book], because it's one of the steps in AA where the fourth step is you lay out all your grievances, everything that people did to you. I go like, 'None.'"

Stamos now recognizes how he played "some part" in the collapse of their marriage, acknowledging that Romijn, 50, "was trying to make it work because she cared" about him before their split.

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"You start thinking, it's like, 'Oh, she wasn't the Devil. Maybe I was as much to blame as her,'" he shared, going on to note that their divorce was "very public" and "very painful." 

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"It was very much the opinion that she dumped me because her career was going great and mine wasn't, and that's humiliating," Stamos added. "I don't blame her for it. It was just the perception that people took, and maybe they weren't wrong. She was doing great at that time and I wasn't."

Stamos and Romijn were married for nearly six years before calling it quits in 2004. 

Since their divorce was finalized in 2005, both parties have moved on to new romances. Stamos is now married to Caitlin McHugh Stamos, with whom he shares 5-year-old son Billy, while Romijn is mom to twin daughters Dolly and Charlie, 13, with husband Jerry O'Connell.

For Romijn, the breakup was equally difficult. "Going through a divorce is terrible, it's awful," she shared on The Talk last year. "Divorce feels like a failure and there were a lot of things that I had to let go of that were very sad."

Reflecting on the struggles he endured in the aftermath of split, including an addiction to alcohol, Stamos told People, "Without that, I never would've known what a real love is, and I would've never straightened up to get someone like Caitlin in my life." 

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If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos

John Stamos' memoir details friendship, love, loss and the courage to embrace love once more, and is filled with some of the most memorable names in Hollywood.

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"If I didn't go through all the things, all the heartache," he said, "I wouldn't be who I am today."

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