Dave Coulier's wife Melissa opens up about his 'really tough' cancer battle and how he keeps a positive attitude
Dave Coulier's wife Melissa opens up about his 'really tough' cancer battle and how he keeps a positive attitude
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Dave Coulier's wife Melissa is opening up about her courageous husband's battle with cancer in a new interview. The 65-year-old Full House star who returned to his hometown of Detroit some years ago revealed his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis in November.
![[The 65-year-old Full House star who returned to his hometown of Detroit some years ago revealed his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis in November]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/24/08/94466857-14320785-image-a-1_1737707177128.jpg)
Many have rallied around the funnyman as he continues treatment, with his wife Melissa, who he married in 2014, offering new insight. Just days before he announced the diagnosis on his Full House podcast and then on TODAY, he revealed the news to a local Detroit reporter for WYXZ.
![[Despite this difficult battle, she added, ' He has such a positive attitude, and you need that in order to really fight it.']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/24/08/94466853-14320785-image-a-3_1737707228096.jpg)
The local network caught up with Melissa, who admitted her husband, 'has some really tough days' in his cancer battle. 'As the chemo has been accumulating it gets a little tougher and more difficult,' she admitted in the interview. Dave Coulier's wife Melissa is opening up about her courageous husband's battle with cancer in a new interview.
![['Every morning, if he's feeling up for it, we try to put on a song and do a little dance party with the dogs, because when you do feel good, you have to celebrate that too,' she said]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/24/08/94466851-14320785-image-a-4_1737707305295.jpg)
The 65-year-old Full House star who returned to his hometown of Detroit some years ago revealed his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis in November. Despite this difficult battle, she added, 'He has such a positive attitude, and you need that in order to really fight it.'.
![['I think it's just innately in him. He has had a lot of loss in his life when it comes to having to deal with cancer,' she said, adding he lost his mother, sister and niece]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/24/08/94466845-14320785-image-a-5_1737707326070.jpg)
'Every morning, if he's feeling up for it, we try to put on a song and do a little dance party with the dogs, because when you do feel good, you have to celebrate that too,' she said. She added that, 'everyone is really rallying around” Coulier, and that he gets his strength from the losses he's suffered in the past.
![['I don't know if I'm gonna let it grow, like, super long to kinda make up for it,' Coulier shared with a laugh. 'It'll be nice to have hair again']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/24/08/94466579-14320785-image-a-7_1737707392296.jpg)
