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Candace Cameron Bure Says Son’s Bible-Based Pep Talk Helped Save Her Marriage

Her son Lev sat his parents down with the Bible and gave "a 45-minute sermon."

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Candace Cameron Bure Says Son’s Bible-Based Pep Talk Helped Save Her Marriage
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“Full House” alum Candace Cameron Bure recently acknowledged that her almost three-decade-long marriage hasn’t always been perfect. 

The 49-year-old mom of three made the revelation during Tuesday’s episode of her podcast.

“Val and I went through a really, really rough season in our marriage in 2020, and that’s when the pandemic hit,” Bure said of her husband, Valeri, a retired professional hockey player, whom she married in 1996.

“It was going south quickly,” she added. “And we were like, ‘I don’t know, don’t think … we’re gonna make it through.’”

The actress said it was ultimately her three children who helped them through the rough patch. Natasha, who was born in 1998, is an actress like her mother. The couple also has two sons, Lev and Maksim, who were born in 2000 and 2002. respectively.

“At one point, Lev, Maks, and Natasha, but Lev was the one leading the charge. He came up to us and he said, ‘We’d like to talk to you guys,’” Bure said. “Val and I sat down and Lev preached, like, a 45-minute sermon on marriage to us. Just had his Bible open on the couch and just talked about it.”

Lev was in his early twenties at the time.

“And I’ll never forget, because he said, ‘know I haven’t been married. And I’m just a young kid. And so it’s probably hard to take marriage advice from someone this young …never experienced it before. But I don’t need to be married to know what the word of God says,’” she went on.

The actress recalled how Lev had “such a calm voice that had so much wisdom behind it” when he broached the subject.

“He looked us straight in the eye and individually asked me, and then asked Val, ‘Have you done everything you can? Is there one step of grace, is there just some bit of more grace you can give? Is there any more grace you can give Mom? Is there one more act of kindness in you that you could give to try to reconcile?’” Bure said, describing this encounter as a “pivotal moment” that changed everything for the family.

“When we walked away from that, and Val and I were like, ‘Huh, we raised some pretty good kids,’” Bure said.

“There was a lot more to it, but it’s a whole different scenario when your kids sit you down to have a talk and go, ‘Are you being as mature as you can be and what God says?’ I’m so grateful to Lev and Maks and Natasha,” she told her podcast listeners. “They were so supportive of everything.”

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