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Christine Lakin Claims Mocking ‘Fuller House’ Star’s Brother Got Her Axed

Christine Lakin has a theory about why she didn’t make the cut for Netflix’s “Fuller House.”

While appearing on Friday’s episode of Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber’s How Rude, Tanneritos podcast, the actor said she was slated to be a recurring character on the sequel series but was unexpectedly turned away ahead of the table read.

Lakin recalled having a great meeting with creator Jeff Franklin and “was stoked” about appearing on the series before things took a turn.

“And then about two days before the table read, I got a call from my manager saying, ‘Yes, something happened. They’re pushing the table read. I think there’s some stuff with the script they want to rewrite,’” she recalled.

“The next day happened and my manager calls and says, ‘Hey, I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’ve been let go.’ And I was, like, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said, ’Yeah, they just said they’re rewriting the character and they’re not going to need you anymore. And I was, like, ‘What did I do wrong?’ I didn’t even go to a table read.”

Lakin said she thought she was given the boot because she jokingly criticized star Candace Cameron Bure’s brother, Kirk Cameron, seven years ago. Bure played D.J. Tanner on “Full House” and “Fuller House.”

“I participated in a ‘Funny or Die’ video that a friend of mine made, and at the time, ‘Funny or Die’ had just come out,” she recalled. “And at the time, Kirk Cameron had said some public things about the LGBTQ community, and I thought those were very damaging.”

Cameron previously came under fire for slamming same-sex marriage during a CNN interview in March 2012. Lakin and other former child actors clapped back at Kirk for his statements in an April 2012 satirical response video.

“All I can think of is that it created some bad blood,” Lakin said. “And seven years later, I was not, my presence was not wanted. That’s maybe what I think.”

The “Hollywood Darlings” star then shared that her pal and fellow actor Virginia Williams wound up landing on the show for Seasons 2 through 5.

“She was great. And I mean, it was a bummer for me. It really was,” Lakin added. “I would have loved to have done that.”

“Full House” initially aired on ABC from 1987 to 1995. Its reboot series “Fuller House” aired from 2016 to 2020 on Netflix.

HuffPost has reached out to Cameron Bure’s reps for comment.

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