John Stamos states he tried to leave "Full House".

John Stamos was honest about his time on the hit family-friendly show “Full House,” and what he said may surprise you.

On last week’s episode of the hot wing talk show “Hot Ones,” Stamos, who played Uncle Jesse on “Full House” from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, said that he didn’t like the show at first and even tried to quit.

“I hated that show,” he said. He went on to say that the show was first described to him as being like “Bosom Buddies,” a short-lived 1980s sitcom starring Peter Scolari and Tom Hanks, but “with a couple of kids in the background.”

Stamos goes on to say that at the time, he thought he was “the star” of the show and had a “big shot” attitude in the early stages of production. When his co-star Jodie Sweetin, who was just a child at the time, outshone him during the first table read, his ego was a little hurt.

“When Jodie Sweetin, who plays Stephanie Tanner, reads her lines, people die laughing—I mean, they scream,” Stamos said. “I couldn’t even hear my lines because they were laughing so hard at her, and I’m like slinking down in my seat.”

In Full House, (from left to right) Dave Coulier, Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron Bure, Bob Saget, Mary-KateAshley Olson, and John Stamos. © Images AGN

He said he remembered running out to the hallway to call his agent and saying, “Get me the f–k off this show!”

In the end, Stamos said that he chose to try it with the help of his late co-star Bob Saget and a push from his agent.

“I fought it for a long time, and then I finally asked myself, ‘What am I doing?’ “It’s a beautiful show with a lot of sweetness and kindness,” he said. “Love was the main character,” he added, “and we were the best example of a loving family—not a normal family—and that was the new normal.”

Between 1987 and 1995, “Full House” was shown on ABC. Saget’s character, Danny Tanner, was a widower who raised his three girls with help from Stamos’s character, “Uncle Jesse” Katsopolis, and Dave Coulier’s character, Joey Gladstone.

The three Tanner girls were played by Sweetin, Candace Cameron Bure, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Stamos recently said, in a funny way, that he tried to get them fired from the show at first. Becky, Stamos’s wife on the show, was played by Lori Loughlin.

Stamos also played a role in Netflix’s “Fuller House,” a reboot of the popular show that started in 2016 and ran for five seasons.