Dave Coulier Recalls Getting a Cancer-Free Diagnosis the Day His Grandson Was Born

Dave Coulier learned that he was cancer-free on the day his grandson was born.

The Full House star, 65, shared the story on the Friday, April 18 episode of the podcast “How Rude, Tanneritos!” 

Coulier found out that he’d won his battle with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in late March, revealing, “I got the good news the day the baby was born.” 

“So I heard the news and I was so excited, and then [his son] Luc called us and he said, ‘Hey, the baby just was born.’ And so, I mean, it was an amazing day,” Coulier recalled to podcast hosts Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber. “It was really amazing, you know?” 

He added: “So we were like, ‘Oh, this is just too much!’”

Luc, 34, and wife Alex welcomed son Chance Lee on March 27, Parade reported. Coulier shares Luc with ex-wife Jayne Modean.

“My gosh, he’s a really healthy, healthy, great little baby,” Coulier said, adding that Chance weighs 7 pounds, 6 ounces. He noted that he was going to meet the little one in late April. Coulier is based in Michigan with wife Melissa Coulier, and Luc — a pilot for FedEx — lives with his family in Sacramento. 

Earlier this month, Coulier made a previous appearance on “How Rude, Tanneritos” and discussed the dark moments between his cancer’s diagnosis in October 2024 and his remission in the spring. It was “this journey of, ‘OK, let’s make it through the rounds of chemotherapy,’ and you know, they say they have to kill you in order to save your life, and there were times where I felt like I don’t know how many more of these I can do. Your hair falls out, and you get neuropathy, and you get muscle cramps and spasms and dizziness and vertigo, and all of these things.”

After his third round of chemo, “it just started to hit me where I couldn’t get out of bed. I had shortness of breath. I was really weak. I was just like, ‘Wow, this is really doing a number on me.’”

Coulier said that his wife, Melissa, 41, “took care of me. I’d have night sweats and she’d go, ‘We gotta change these sheets again.’ And, ‘Here’s a cold compress and here’s your food and here’s your drugs.’ And I mean, she micro-managed this in such a way that I will forever be grateful to her, the way she so valiantly plowed through this.”

He added, “I learned how incredible my wife is. And I also learned just how much a positive attitude can help you plow through things.”