Warning: This article contains spoilers for season 3 of Claim to Fame . Claim to Fame season 3 contestant Jill Kurlfink is close with her celebrity relative, John Stamos , but even she learned some new information from his 2023 memoir, If You Would Have Told Me . “Obviously, some of the things that he talks about in the book I was here for and I also experienced, but while I was reading it, it was kind of cool to learn the more in-depth version of things that were going on,” Jill exclusively told Us Weekly following her elimination during the Wednesday, July 17, episode of the show after Stamos, 60, was revealed to be her uncle.
“Because I was so young during some of it, obviously my parents were telling me things that [were] a little bit of a lie to protect me.” Stamos opened up about his struggles with alcoholism in the book, recalling how he “drank a bottle of wine just to forget what just happened” after he got a DUI in 2015. (In November of that year, the actor pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor of driving under the influence and was sentenced to three years of probation).
In his memoir, Stamos cited lingering grief from his 2005 divorce from Rebecca Romijn and the 2014 death of his mother as the reasons for his troubled state of mind. “My marriage has busted up, but it’s the loss of my mom, Loretta, who died nine months ago, that has me spiraling. She kept me anchored, solid, and straightened out for most of my life.
I’m feeling adrift and alone witho.
