Candace Cameron Bure Emotionally Recalls Final Texts With Bob Saget
Candace Cameron Bure shared her last text message exchange with Bob Saget in a new interview on Today.
The pair were going to meet for dinner, but Saget’s flight home got delayed, and they got into an argument.
His last message to Bure was an apology. “He said, ‘Oh, now I feel even worse. I was so wrong. You’re, like, my favorite person on the earth,’” Bure read.
After taking time to grieve Bob Saget’s sudden death in private, Candace Cameron Bure is opening up about losing their 35-year friendship. The pair were actually supposed to have dinner two weeks before he died, but they got into a “tiff” and his flight home was delayed. So, in true Bob fashion, his last communication to Bure was a long, genuine, and thoughtful apology text. Through tears, Bure shared the message with Hoda Kotb on Today.
“I’m actually going to grab my phone,” the actress said, moving slightly out of the video call’s frame. “I’m so scared that I’m going to pull up his text and then accidentally delete it one day. It scares me so much because I don’t ever want to lose this.”
She set the scene, explaining that she received the message the day after their brief argument. “He wrote me, like, what would be pages long of a text,” she said. “And he was apologizing, saying he was cranky and he was just so sorry.”
He admitted to behaving like his “cranky” late mom Dolly. “He said, ‘Oh, now I feel even worse. I was so wrong. You’re, like, my favorite person on the earth. And I acted like Dolly. I was getting ready to take a late flight, and I was annoyed,’” Bure read.
She continued, struggling to get the words out: “Bob went on, and on, and on in the text. And he said at the end, ‘I love you more for the trouble you’re giving me, if that’s even possible.’”
Knowing his regret was real, Bure replied to Saget with tenderness. “I wrote back, ‘I love you. I could never be mad at you. Roll my eyes at you? Yes. But never mad,’” she said. “‘And I love that [you're being like] Dolly. That made me laugh out loud. I loved your mom.’”
Saget’s last reply was short and sweet: “I love you. My mom loved you too.”
The actor, 65, was found dead on January 9 in an Orlando hotel room, hours after completing a stand-up comedy set. Nearly a month later, Bure still hasn’t fully processed his absence. She even had trouble referring to him in past tense while speaking with Kotb.
“I can’t believe he’s gone forever. I just can’t,” she told Kotb. “My brain has not comprehended that yet.”
After finishing the interview, the Hallmark star took to Instagram Stories to share how she felt. “It felt good to publicly talk about him in that way. It’s been hard to grieve alone, even though I’m not alone. We have such a close group of friends and family and people that are all grieving together,” she said. “But because Bob was such a public person, it was nice to talk about him publicly.”
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