Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's REAL relationship with their Full House co-stars is revealed

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's relationship with their Full House co-stars was revealed this week by their onscreen sister Jodie Sweetin.

The Olsen twins were infants when they began jointly playing Michelle Tanner, one of the three children of Bob Saget's widower character Danny Tanner.

Sweetin starred as the middle daughter Stephanie, a role she played from the ages of five to 13, while Candace Cameron portrayed the firstborn, DJ.

After Full House, the Olsen twins plunged into a high-octane adolescence of megawatt glamour and scandalous rumors before retreating from showbiz. 

Having escaped the frenzied glare of the spotlight in the 2000s, the now 40-year-old sisters have forged a behind-the-scenes career as fashion moguls, heading up the billion-dollar apparel company The Row.

Their withdrawal into privacy has allowed an aura of mystery to form around the subject of whether they remain friendly with their old Full House colleagues - a question Sweetin has now answered on the podcast Comics and Kicks.

The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for the Olsen twins for comment. 

'Everyone's on good terms with them, but they were eight years old when this show stopped,' Sweetin noted. 'Then they did all those movies and all that stuff that I don't know that they loved doing all the time.'

When Full House ended, the Olsen twins launched headlong into a whirlwind career of TV movies produced by their company Dualstar, which was run by their manager Robert Thorne until they turned 18 and became co-presidents themselves.

Sweetin observed that the twins 'walked away from all of us at eight years,' while she herself was in the midst of her 'formative years' on Full House from the ages of five to 13.

However at 'eight and earlier, you don't remember all that much, so it was like, they have a different relationship to being on set all the time,' said Sweetin.

'They might not remember being two years old and having us all carrying them around and doing all this stuff, but I do.'

With a cast including Lori Loughlin, John Stamos, Scott Weinger, Andrea Barber annd Dave Coulier, Full House ran an impressive eight seasons from 1987 to 1995.

Sweetin also glancingly addressed the twins' decision not to return for the Netflix reboot Fuller House, which lasted five seasons from 2016 to 2020.

'They don't want attention and I get it. They had so much and were so invaded and so for public consumption, I totally understand why they don't wanna do that,' she said.

The twins' globetrotting life shooting Dualstar movies - which whisked them between such locales as London, Paris, Rome and the Bahamas - was a tabloid fixture.

Then, just after they turned 18, news broke that Mary-Kate had checked into rehab for an unspecified health issue that was widely rumored to be anorexia.

Although Mary-Kate never herself confirmed she suffered an eating disorder, her dramatic weight loss had already fallen under blistering public scrutiny.

In 2004, the then 17-year-old twins had sat for an infamous interview in which Oprah Winfrey asked them their dress size, a question they awkwardly dodged.

Mary-Kate, who was Ashley's fraternal twin, later confessed that she used to compare her own looks unfavorably to those of her sister.

'Are you kidding me? I look in the mirror and I'm like: "Why do you look pretty and I look ugly?"' Mary-Kate shared on a CBS 48 Hours special.

Even as they retreated into a more private life in fashion, Mary-Kate continued to be a subject of public fascination due to her age gap romance and eventual turbulent divorce from Olivier Sarkozy, brother of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

They began dating when she was 26 and he was 43 and remained romantically involved for for eight years before their marriage imploded in 2020.

In a sign of their lingering bond with their old Full House cast, the Olsen twins were present at Bob Saget's funeral in 2022 after he was found dead at 65 in a hotel room, having suffered what the medical examiners determined was head trauma. 

'They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep,' said his family's statement.

Stamos spoke glowingly about the 'beautiful' reunion he enjoyed with the Olsen twins at Saget's memorial service during an interview on The Howard Stern Show.

He shared that Mary-Kate and Ashley 'got us all together and said: "We love you. We loved our childhood. We're grateful for you guys. Thank you for making those eight years so beautiful for us. We have such fond memories. We love you." And everybody just needed to hear that, and I think it was Bob doing it.'