08-07-2025
Candace Cameron Bure Details 'Rough Season' in Valeri Bure Marriage
Originally appeared on E! Online
is looking back at a rocky point in her marriage.
The Full House alum—who has been married to Valeri Bure since 1996—recently opened up about their marriage hitting a rough patch, leading them to get guidance from an unexpected source.
'It was going south quickly,' Candace said on the July 8 episode of the Candace Cameron Bure podcast, referring to the state of their relationship in 2020. 'And I was like, 'I don't know. I don't know if we're gonna make it through.''
During this period, the couple's kids Natasha, 26, Lev, 25, and Maksim, 23, took note, with their oldest son sitting them down for a tough conversation.
'Lev came up to us and said, 'We'd like to talk to you guys,'' she recalled. 'Lev preached like a 45-minute sermon on marriage to us. Like had his Bible open on the couch and just talked to us about it.'
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'And I'll never forget,' the actress continued. 'He said, 'I haven't been married and I'm just a young kid, and it's probably hard to take marriage advice from someone this young [who] never experienced it before. But I don't need to be married to know what the word of God says.''
For Candace, 49, and Valeri, 51, their son's perspective opened their eyes to the most important aspect of their relationship: family.
'He was just such a calm voice that had so much wisdom behind it,' the Home Sweet Christmas star explained. 'And he looked us straight in the eye and individually asked me and asked Val, 'Have you done everything you can?' We walked away from that, and Val and I were like, 'We raised pretty good kids.''
'That was like the pivotal moment,' she explained. 'It really changed for us after that talk. It's a whole different scenario when your kids sit you down to talk and say, 'Are you being as mature as you can be?''
She added, 'I'm so grateful to Lev, and Maks and Natasha. They were so supportive of everything."
The Fuller House alum has been candid about how the pandemic affected her decades-long relationship.
"All the things that we have avoided for years talking about, they all surfaced and they were in our face," she said during an interview with Yahoo! Lifestyle in March 2021. 'And it was unavoidable to actually have these discussions with one another and work through the real deal crap.'
However, it's obvious everywhere you look that Candace and Val have worked through their issues, as they celebrated their wedding anniversary last month.
'31 years ago we went on our first official date at his practice rink in Fredericton, New Brunswick. @dcoulier introduced us at a charity hockey game in Los Angeles 4 months earlier,' she wrote on a June 22 Instagram post. '30 years ago on June 20th, we got engaged in Paris. 29 years ago today, June 22nd, we got married. We grew a beautiful family. Happy anniversary to my love and best friend forever. And this was the song for our first dance.'
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