How John Stamos, Candace Cameron Bure and Lori Loughlin learned of Bob Saget’s death: ‘Wailing scream’

John Stamos’s new memoir, “If You Would Have Told Me,” is filled with many personal stories of reflection — including the dramatic moment he learned of his good friend Bob Saget’s death.

The actor recalls driving home with his 5-year-old son, Billy, when his publicist, Matt Polk, called him and asked if he had spoken with Saget that day. When Polk noted TMZ called him saying “several sources” indicated the comedian was dead, Stamos didn’t believe it.

Stamos went on to call Saget’s wife, Kelly Rizzo, but didn’t receive an immediate response. “Full House” co-star Candace Cameron Bure called him minutes later about a “weird DM” she received from a local Floridian claiming the same. Rizzo then called Stamos back.

“When I switch callers over to Kelly, all I hear is a wailing scream. I hit the ground in the parking lot and my knees slam down on the asphalt. ‘Nooooooooooooooooooooo,’” he wrote in his book. “My son is still sound asleep in the backseat of my car. I pull myself together to drive home and start making calls. First to [my wife] Caitlin [McHugh], she’s in disbelief. She calls her parents to come watch Billy. Then to Dave [Coulier]. ‘Dave, Bob Saget is dead.’”

Like Stamos, Lori Loughlin fell to the floor when she learned of the news.

“I call Lori [Loughlin], who’s on the eighth hole of Lake View Country Club golfing with her husband [Massimo Giannulli]. ‘Bob is dead, Lori,’” he recalled. “She tells me later she dropped to her knees like me. Billy wakes up. ‘Daddy?’ I love you, son.”

He continued: “I’m still not ready to accept that he’s gone. Not sure I ever will be.”

Saget was found dead at age 65 in his Ritz-Carlton Florida hotel room on January 9, 2022. His autopsy determined that his death was an accident caused by blunt head trauma. He likely fell backward fracturing the base of his skull causing bleeding around the brain.

He and his wife, Rizzo, met in 2015 through mutual friends and announced their engagement in 2017. They tied the knot the following year.

Saget starred as patriarch Danny Tanner in “Full House” for eight seasons from 1987 to 1995. He reprised his role in Netflix’s reboot, “Fuller House.”

Stamos captured his friendship with Saget in a chapter of his book, noting that he wanted his memoir to be a “human story” and the process was “therapeutic.”

“I just hope people can take something. Now, you’re going to ask me what, but take something from it and use it in their life,” he told People. “It could be the stuff that I learned from Bob [Saget], which was, Tomorrow’s not promised. Live every moment to the fullest and tell everybody that you care about them. Or the wisdom that I got from my parents, my dad, treating everybody the same. My mom, always looking for the best part of someone and that’s what defines them. But I hope they can relate to me.”