He writes, “‘Maybe Bob was in the same plane crash I died in.
“It’s probably bulls—!”
However, after texting Saget and not receiving a response, Stamos began to grow concerned.
Bob Saget and John Stamos in 2015.Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
He then reached out to Saget’s wife, Kelly Rizzo, who similarly did not answer.
“I hit the ground in the parking lot and my knees slam down on the asphalt.
“‘Dave, Bob Saget is dead,'” he recalls tellingDave Coulier.
The cover of John Stamos’ memoir, ‘If You Would Have Told Me’.Henry Holt and Co.
“Not sure why I have to use his last name.
Dave knows I’m not calling to tell him Bob Hope died.
‘Bob is dead, Lori.’
She tells me later she dropped to her knees like me.”
“He’s America’s favorite dad to a generation of kids.
Before YouTube, he was the guy that riffed on your family’s grainy VHS videos.
He’s the filthiest comedian of all time to the aristocrats out there.
“It’s impossible to capture the spirit of a guy who belongs to everyone.
I don’t have exclusive rights, but the loss is personal, painful, and beyond belief.”
He says that Saget’s death left him feeling lost.
“In the past, feeling stripped of someone I loved made me want to join them.
No drugs, no booze, no bulls—,” Stamos writes.
“I need to be here for my wife and my child.”
“I want to be haunted by him.
The void is maddening.
“Hummingbirds represented my parents, and this beauty is definitely my mother, who had red hair.
The bird has bright red feathers around its neck like a scarf.
She assures me Bob is okay, flies up, and darts away.”
Stamos later confesses that he’s “still not ready to accept” that Saget is gone.
“Not sure I ever will be,” he adds.
“I have a go at imagine him still on the road, doing what he loves.
He’s standing onstage, killing.
Another two-hour set in front of a couple hundred of the luckiest people on the planet.
They’re laughing so hard they weep.
There’s an encore, and another, and another.
Everyone wants an encore with Bob.”
If You Would’ve Told Meis available now.
