Candace Cameron Bure revisited a scary moment on set.
While reflecting on filming stunts for Fuller House, the 48-year-old revealed she “almost died” when the zipline on an American Ninja Warrior-inspired obstacle course malfunctioned and nearly fell on her. 
“I went through the course and at the end, I zip-lined diagonally the length of the living room and then I landed on a platform,” Candace explained to costars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber on their How Rude, Tanneritos! podcast’s April 18 episode. “But during rehearsal, the rig was not set up correctly and there was no safety stop on the end of it.”
“When I landed off the zip line and stopped,” she continued, “the whole mechanism—which is all metal and very, very heavy—slid right off the track and came right next to my head within an inch.”
It was a moment Candace’s costars remembered well, with Jodie, 42, noting the machinery dented the floor and broke the set’s stairs. And Candace noted how dire things could have been.
“If I just even shifted my weight the tiniest bit,” she explained, “it would have probably broken my neck and landed right on top of my head.”
Candace also recalled costar Scott Weinger‘s reaction to seeing the rig almost fall on her, adding he “couldn’t even get a word out because it happened within one second.”
Luckily, after that near-miss, Candace didn’t have to perform the zipline stunt again. Andrea shared that episode director Mark Cendrowski quickly shifted gears. “Mark was like, ‘We’re not doing this stunt,'” the 47-year-old said. “‘Redo the whole set because we’re not doing that stunt anymore.'”
The scene was eventually filmed with a set of monkey bars instead.
E! News reached out to Netflix but has not heard back.
And while Candace described that moment as “traumatic,” she emphasized how much she loved filming the Full House spinoff as an adult, especially since she sometimes felt self-conscious during the OG series as a teenager.
“It was so nice to not care,” she admitted. “That was the best—I thought, ‘the goofier, the better!'”
Keep reading to take a look back at some fascinating facts about Fuller House
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1. “We were trying to do some kind of spinoff” for years John Stamos, who serves as a producer, said of the sequel series when he announced it was happening on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2015. John later revealed on Instagram that “every single network and streamer” said no to the idea before Netflix decided to reboot it.
2. While anticipation was extremely high for the sequel series, the reviews were less than kind. But the cast was busy blocking out the nose with Candace Cameron Bure telling E! News, “The critics never had a good thing to say about Full House and yet it ran for eight years in primetime and then it’s never been off the air in 30 years. So it’s a testament to what the fans want and not what the critics think. If there are any negative review that’s how we feel about it with Fuller House; we did this for the fans and we think they’re going to absolutely love it.”
3. And love it they did, with IndieWire reporting that season one of Fuller House was Netflix’s highest rated original-series, according to data from Symphony Advanced Media.
4. Despite leaving the acting world after the original series ended in 1995 to work in academia, Andrea Barber had no hesitations about reprising the role of Kimmy Gibbler as one of the new show’s three leads.
5. While they ultimately settled on making grown-up Kimmy a party planner, there were several other ideas, including maybe she is a translator for the United Nations and she “speaks four different languages,” or Kimmy “having a snack-making business at home, like Gibbler’s Nibblers. She ran her own cookie business out of the basement of the home,” Andrea revealed to THR.
