Candace Cameron Bure recently recalled a harrowing incident on the set of Netflix‘s Fuller House where she says she “almost died” while filming a zipline stunt.
The actress recently appeared on Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber‘s How Rude, Tanneritos! podcast, where she spoke about the scary experience on the streamer’s revival series.
She said that for the scene, her character D.J. Tanner wanted to do an American Ninja Warrior course in the living room. After completing the course, Bure was to finish by riding a “zip line diagonally” across the length of the set and land on a platform.
“But during rehearsal, the rig was not set up correctly and there was no safety stop on the end of it,” she recalled. “So, when I landed off the zipline and stopped, the whole mechanism — which is all metal and very, very heavy — slid right off the track and came right next to my head with an inch.”
Barber then shared that after the mechanism missed Bure’s head, it “dented the floor,” leaving a “big gash” and “broke the stairs.”
“If I just even shifted my weight the tiniest bit, it would have probably broken my neck, like landed right on top of my head,” Bure added, noting that Scott Weinger watched the whole thing go down but couldn’t react fast enough to warn everyone.
After the traumatic moment, Bure said that Mark Sandrowski—who was directing that week’s episode—had a “look on his face” that was “so serious” before he called for a break on set.
“The stunt guy was fired,” she continued. “And Mark’s like, ‘We’re not doing this stunt. Like, redo the whole set, because we’re not doing that stunt anymore.’”
Netflix’s Fuller House ran from 2016 to 2020 and was a reboot of the beloved ’80s-’90s sitcom Full House.
You can currently stream all episodes of the series on Netflix.
