Candace Cameron Bure

My mom was a believer.

Okay.

And my parents, when I was 12, almost got divorced.

A friend had them go to marital counseling together through the church.

And that was a big deal because my dad was basically an atheist and was like, you guys can decide what religion you want to be when you're 18.

I don't want religion.

So when we started to go to church as a family, I became a believer at 12.

But again, growing up in my home, my mom was a believer, loved it, was encouraging us.

We would go to church, and she would talk about God to us, but my dad was never there.

My dad is a Christian now.

And he's been a Christian for a long time, but it...

Yeah, I don't think, you know, he became a Christian really until I was probably 25 years old, something like that.

I really did.

Yeah, through mom, but just...

At 12 years old, I really had a deep desire to know God once I was told about him.

I'm like, there's a God out there that created the world and loved me, loves me?

Like, that was exciting.

Yeah, well, some of the positives of fame, I think the number one thing I think about is influence.

You have influence over a lot of people.

What you use that influence for is