The COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, and, by March, the world was a different place.

Many of her friends thought she was in recovery, but that wasn’t true.

That part was true but I was covering up my relapses."

Jodie Sweetin

She continued: “I felt terrible about what I was doing.

“My life is amazing,” she toldPeople.

“I will have five years [of sobriety] in March.

Jodie Sweetin

It’s given me a lot of gratitude.”

“I know I was a mess during the pandemic.

I was not a fully functioning person.

Jodie Sweetin

I was awful.”

“I lost like 37 pounds because I am a stress starver,” she explained.

“I just stopped eating.

I couldn’t keep anything down.

I’ll be real honest about it.

The pandemic was not good for me.

On Jan. 17, she took to Instagram toannounce her engagementto boyfriend Mescal Wasilewski.