Los Angeles, Oct 25 (IANS): Actor John Stamos is dropping bombshells from his personal life as he offers grisly details in his memoir ‘If You Would Have Told Me’, and it includes his struggles with alcoholism and how he pulled through.

In his book, he candidly addressed his many highs and lows over the years because he knew it was necessary to share the good and the bad as equally essential parts of his story.

Earlier, the ‘Full House’ actor had said that while he did consider putting himself as a hero. However, he later decided against it as he wanted to present an actual picture of the events that transpired.

Speaking to People magazine, Stamos said: "I did set out to write a hero story, but then as I was doing it I was like, 'No, I'm going to tell a human story, because with the hero story, that's bulls****. And unless I was a 100 per cent forthcoming, what am I doing this for, right? But it was hard."

Nonetheless, he labeled the experience as ‘therapeutic’ and said: "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. 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," he added.

During a gig on Broadway in 2002, Stamos reflected on how much his drinking habits increased. He would begin sipping a bottle of red wine while getting his makeup done “and figure out how to make it last the whole show."

"This is not a recommended acting method, but it does help me, especially early on, to drop my inhibitions and abandon any fear," he wrote. "I try to time it out so that my last swallow comes right before I walk out and hit my mark in f***me pumps and a satin dress to belt out my final torch song, 'I Don't Care Much'."

Because the "emotional tenor of the show requires release after-hours," Stamos would continue drinking with his cast-mates after the show ended. "Alcoholism is genetic. Hereditary. My parents both enjoyed imbibing regularly. They functioned well and never considered stopping.

“Proclivities can lie dormant within for a while, but I’m pushing my luck, drinking a bottle of wine every performance (including matinees)," he shared, noting that it "feels like I might be awakening a sleeping monster."

Stamos added that his alcoholism carried on over the years. "I'm practically having panic attacks in the first ten minutes of the show, so I turn to my old Cabaret trick: a bottle of red. I can say farewell to Cabaret, but can't cut loose the cabernet chromosome."

In the book's opening chapter, Stamos opened up about the scary moment in June 2015 when he was driving while under the influence of multiple substances on his way to dinner with Bob Saget.

"I don't want to kill myself, but there’s a selfishness in death that I flirt with. I’m faded in my car. It’s okay if I die. Fine. I've done it all; crossed everything off my list. Got the fame, got the girls, got the sitcom, got to play with The Beach Boys. The End. I'm good to go, in the literal sense," he wrote.

Upon eventually pulling over, Stamos said the cops found him "blacked out, slumped in my seat like a scarecrow." He was then taken to a local hospital, where he woke up to Saget seated by his bedside after the comedian — along with Stamos's sisters — had attempted to track him down for hours.

"I've seen the video and pictures from that night. It makes me sick to my stomach. I’m spinning around the streets, out of my bloody mind. I could have killed a kid, wiped out a family or a grandmother coming home from Bible study," he wrote. "I'm jeopardising everything in my life: my career, reputation, and worst of all, the kid my parents raised, a guy I kind of like."

This is what prompted the actor to go into rehabilitating himself, and years down the road he was finally able to attain sobriety.