“Full House” star John Stamos recently discussed his experience with the church of Scientology, saying he got kicked out of a meeting when he was a teenager for “f***ing around so much.”
The 61-year-old actor made the revelation on an episode of the “Friends in High Places” podcast, saying he went to a meeting due to the influence of an attractive woman and his admiration for John Travolta.
“With me, I was in an acting class and there was a hot girl, [who] said to me, ‘You know we’re all meeting at this [place] on Hollywood Boulevard, you should come after [class],’” Stamos said. “Seeing ‘Grease’ was like, I wanna be that. I wanted to be John Travolta, I still do. Well, minus the whatever it is that they do,” he added.
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“I was working at my dad’s restaurant at the time and I said, ‘Dad, I gotta go.’ So, I went and it was the Scientology building,” the actor continued.
The “Full House” alum was 17 at the time and recalls being at the meeting and encountering an “E-Meter,” which the organization’s website describes as “a calibrated device used for measuring extremely low voltages and psyche, the human soul, spirit or mind.”
Stamos said he was joking around and pretended to use the “E-Meter” like it was a phone. “I was doing a Peabody and Sherman [impression] and they didn’t like that,” Stamos said. “I was just f***ing around so much, they said, ‘Get out [and] get going. They just kicked me out.”
Podcast host Matt Friend suggested Stamos was “too annoying” to become a member of the organization.
“That’s pretty bad, I must have been terrible,” Stamos agreed.
The actor also discussed his relationship with Scientology in his 2023 memoir, “If You Had Told Me.”
“I’m walking to my car and Mia runs out and hands me my workbooks,” Stamos wrote in the book, per US Weekly. “‘Hey, you forgot these.’ She adds an extra book, the size of a brick, to my stack. ‘Start with this one,’ she says, smiling. ‘I think it will open your eyes to some amazing things.’”
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The actor said when he opened the book, it talked about “controlling your reactionary mind, controlling energy, controlling space and controlling time.”
Stamos also mentioned the Scientology building was “creepy as f***.”
“[One man] begins to question me about committing crimes, asks if I have negative thoughts about Scientology or [founder] L. Ron Hubbard and probes into some strange sex inquiries,” Stamos wrote in the book. “The Wayback Machine needle jumps in the corner, and Mia looks disappointed. Apparently, I’m not Scientology material. Darn it.”
