Candace Cameron Bure Credits ‘Grace of God’ for 28-Year Marriage

Published: April 29, 2024

Candace Cameron Bure Credits ‘Grace of God’ for 28-Year Marriage

By Movieguide® Contributor

Candace Cameron Bure is thankful for her husband, Val, and their 28 years of marriage.

While speaking about her new film UNSUNG HERO with US Weekly, Bure opened up about her marriage.

She credits “A lot of love and respect for each other” and “the grace of God” for keeping the couple together.

“We’ll be 28 years in June, and no one has a perfect marriage, and there are trials along the way. But I’m grateful we’ve stuck through them too,” Bure said.

“Another thing that I can just relate…within the movie, just that marriage relationship, but I think above all we just want what’s best for each other,” she added. “We want to do everything we can to stay together. And a lot of times it just means being selfless and like putting your sense of control aside and going ‘how do we work on this together?’”

The couple met through Bure’s FULL HOUSE costar Dave Coulier and married in 1996. They share three children: Natasha, Lev, and Maksim.

“There’s a lot of humility in marriage, let’s just say that. You got to put your pride aside,” the Great American Family actress explained.

Bure recently appeared in the film UNSUNG HERO, which tells the origin story of the popular Christian bands for KING + COUNTRY and Rebecca St. James.

She plays the Smallbones’ family friend, Kay Albright.

“Man, I devoured that script,” she told Andrew Erwin. “I really did. I devoured it, and I was like, ‘Yes. Yes, you guys need to make this. Yes, I would love to be a part of it, whether it is as a producer’ – and then it was like, well, there’s an acting part, so I was like, yeah, bonus.”

Part of Movieguide®’s review reads:

UNSUNG HERO is a true story about a Christian family from Australia’s struggles to survive and thrive in the rough and tumble music business while trying to serve God. When the father, David Smallbone, loses big on promoting an unsuccessful tour, he thinks relocating the family to Nashville may be their best route forward. Odd jobs and a local church keep the family afloat while David seeks work in the music industry. David’s father, wife Helen and others tell him he should focus on the musical talent living under his own roof. The family’s prospects rise when he takes that advice to heart. Can focusing on God and family lead them to the new life they seek?

UNSUNG HERO is a powerful, compelling story of faith and family, told with lots of sincerity and heart. The acting and writing is very good and convincing. UNSUNG HERO has a strong Christian, biblical worldview. The family’s Christian faith is not only clear from their repeated prayers to Jesus to guide and provide for them, but also from their infectious enthusiasm and spiritually uplifting song lyrics.