KEEPING HOUSE

‘Full House’ Star Tells How Her Kids Saved Her Marriage

The actress said that it was thanks to an intervention led by her eldest son that her marriage survived.

Candace Cameron Bure, who played D.J. Tanner on Full House, admitted that she considered splitting with her husband during the pandemic. On Tuesday, Bure, 49, told listeners of her podcast that her marriage with her husband, former NHL player Valeri Bure, 51, went through a “really, really rough season” in 2020. Candace said that it was her first son, Lev Bure, who helped her now 29-year-old marriage survive. Lev spearheaded an intervention with his parents and sat the family down. “Lev preached, like, a 45-minute sermon on marriage to us. Just had his Bible open on the couch and just talked about it,” Candace said. The star recalled that Lev was calm and wise beyond his years when he counseled them on marriage, remembering that he told the couple, “‘it’s probably hard to take marriage advice from someone this young [who] never experienced it before. But I don’t need to be married to know what the word of God says.’” Candace said the intervention was “the pivotal moment” that got her marriage over the hump. In 2022, Lev graduated from Liberty University, an evangelical university affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia, with a bachelor’s degree in biblical and theological studies.