Editing Jodie Sweetin (section)

==Early life and education==
Sweetin was born in Los Angeles, California. While an infant, her parents were sent to prison and she was adopted and raised as an only child by her uncle Sam Sweetin and his second wife Janice when she was nine months old.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jodi-sweetin-20092310/|title=Jodie Sweetin: I Snorted Meth at Olsen Twins Film Premiere|work=[[Us Weekly]]|date=October 23, 2009|access-date=June 30, 2018}}</ref> Her father died in a prison riot.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=adviser |date=2016-11-16 |title="Full House" star Jodie Sweetin talks about dark past and road to recovery - The Rocket |url=https://www.theonlinerocket.com/student-life/2016/11/16/full-house-star-jodie-sweetin-talks-about-dark-past-and-road-to-recovery/,%20https://www.theonlinerocket.com/student-life/2016/11/16/full-house-star-jodie-sweetin-talks-about-dark-past-and-road-to-recovery/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |language=en-US}}</ref> Years later, she said she was told not to talk about her adoption publicly out of fear that people would think she was forced into acting.<ref name="UnSweetined">{{cite book|last1=Sweetin|first1=Jodie|last2=Wrench|first2=Jon|title=unSweetined|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster|Simon Spotlight Entertainment]]|location=[[New York City]]|date=2010|isbn=9781439152683|pages=120}}</ref> 

In 1999, four years after ''Full House'' ended, Sweetin graduated from [[Los Alamitos High School]] in [[Los Alamitos, California]], and attended [[Chapman University]] in [[Orange, California]].<ref name="Biography" /> While in high school, Sweetin and fellow actor [[Matthew Morrison]] performed in musical theater together.<ref>{{cite web |last=Weakland |first=Russ |date=October 18, 2010 |title=Exclusive! Will There Be A 'Full House' Reunion On 'Glee?' |url=https://hollywoodlife.com/2010/10/18/full-house-reunion-on-glee-jodie-sweetin-john-stamos-mary-kate-olsen-ashley-olsen-matt-morrison-cory-montieth/ |access-date=July 17, 2018 |work=[[Hollywood Life]] |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630161628/https://hollywoodlife.com/2010/10/18/full-house-reunion-on-glee-jodie-sweetin-john-stamos-mary-kate-olsen-ashley-olsen-matt-morrison-cory-montieth/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>