John Stamos claims that if his therapist hadn't assisted him in getting sober, he "probably wouldn't be here
John Stamos believes his therapist helped save his life. “I probably wouldn’t be here [without him],” the “Full House” star, who plays a family counselor in Hulu’s “UnPrisoned,” told Page Six exclusively at the Season 2 premiere on Tuesday. Stamos shared that he’s been seeing Phil Stutz — the subject of a 2022 Netflix documentary by Jonah Hill — for “close to 20 years.” “He was big into helping me get sober,” the “General Hospital” alum further said. Stamos opened up about his battle with alcohol and June 2015 DUI arrest in his 2023 memoir, “If You Would Have Told Me.” One month after his arrest, he entered a substance abuse program. “When I went to Stutz one of the first times, he said, ‘You know if you weren’t so f–king stupid you’d realize how good you have it,’ and I was like, ‘You’re right,'” he said with a laugh. Stamos, who recently signed on as the chief innovation officer at streaming service Zeam , became such a fan of therapy that he introduced his late “Full Hou