LOS ANGELES, April 5 (UPI) -- Jodie Sweetin is opening up about her past substance abuse and long road to recovery.
The 34-year-old Fuller House star discussed her addiction to drugs and alcohol on Monday's episode of Dancing with the Stars before giving an emotional performance with partner Keo Motsepe.
"When the original Full House wrapped, I was 13 years old," Sweetin recalled. "It was a huge shift in my life. Everything that I'd known from the time I was five years old suddenly ended, and it was saying goodbye to a family that I loved very, very much."
"At such a young age, it really was a huge loss for me that I didn't know how to grieve," she explained. "Drugs and alcohol just sort of numbed everything. I was doing cocaine, and ecstasy, and alcohol and all that."
"The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital and all that," the star revealed. "It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person that I'd become."
Sweetin, who celebrated her fifth year of sobriety in March, said she's happy "with simple things now." The actress is mom to two daughters, 7-year-old Zoie and 5-year-old Beatrix, and got engaged to Justin Hodak in January.
"I've got everything I could want," she previously told Us Weekly. "I look aback at things that have happened in the past, and I look at where I am now, and it's crazy. If anything, my life is a lesson to never give up."
"We turn to each other for support," she said of Hodak, who is also a recovering addict. "We both have our own lives and things we're excited about, but we combine that, where we have this great relationship."
Sweetin and Motsepe scored a 23 with their foxtrot to "Rise Up" by Andra Day on Dancing with the Stars, which airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Former The O.C. actress Mischa Barton was eliminated on Monday's episode.
