Jodie Sweetin on the Today Show: everyone has to go through these things'

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Former Full House' star - and former drug addict - Jodie Sweetin had an interesting interview on The Today Show' this morning to promote her new book Unsweetined.' What was most interesting about Jodie's interview was what was lacking. She seemed nonchalant to the point of flippant throughout the entire thing. There were certainly moments where it was more shocking than others - like when she was talking about not being clean and sober since she's been a mother. She just says it so casually. She talks about hardcore drugs the same way, and Matt Lauer has to interrupt her to clarify that she's not talking about pot or other commonly used drugs, she's talking about meth and cocaine. And the response is still just a very casual sure' type of thing.

She never once struck me as being dishonest, but I always find it strange when people talk about serious, unusual things in a flippant way. Like in high school, didn't everyone have a few overly-dramatic friends that did that for attention? It's always struck me as a way to startle people by not just saying it, but acting like it's no big deal. Which is very much what seems to be going down in Jodie's interview.

Jodie also seems to try to explain or possibly excuse all those years she spent lying about being clean and sober. She said that her stint in rehab was revealed not of [her] choosing,' and that it basically forced her to admit what she'd gone through before she was ready.

When it first came out that I had gone to rehab and that I was trying to get things together, it wasn't of my own choosing that that story came out, and I don't think I was in a place at that point in my life to really do what it took to be honest and to get to a place where what I was saying was actually true and that I was actually living by those principles in my life.'

[Transcribed from the Today Show]

I've always been routing for Jodie. But frankly, I was a bit disappointed, and I had thought she had her act together a little better than this. At the end of the interview she talks about how 'everyone has to go through these things' - and I think she means personal struggles. But the way she phrases it, it seems like she's just trying to act like meth and coke addiction is something that's really common to struggle with. And that's just not the case. I'm not saying it's necessary for her to ostracize herself, but combined with her shoulder-shrugging, no-big-deal attitude, I didn't feel like she had the self-awareness or insight I'd expect to see in someone who's made a true and lasting commitment to sobriety.