“Full House” actress Anne Marie McEvoy never intended to make acting in Hollywood her permanent career.

McEvoy, 48, who played popular girl Kathy Santoni on the hit sitcom, told her “Full House” co-stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber that she was determined to leave Hollywood to go to college.

“As a kid, I didn’t do it because I wanted to be an actress at all,” McEvoy explained on the podcast “How Rude, Tanneritos!” “It was a job. I’m going to college… money… that kind of thing.”

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From left to right: Anne Marie McEvoy played the “popular” girlfriend of Andrea Barber and Candace Cameron Bure on “Full House.” (Getty Images)

When asked why she decided to leave Hollywood behind, McEvoy replied, “I’ve always… I never thought I’d stay.”

“Everybody wants to be famous, right?” she continued. “That’s not what I wanted. I really wanted to be… a mother. I wanted to… get a doctorate. I wanted to be a professor.”

She added that she fit in better in college than in Hollywood.

McEvoy played Candace Cameron Bure and Barber’s girlfriend on “Full House.” The cast described her as appearing in several “heavy episodes.” McEvoy appeared in the “Spin the Bottle” and “Say No Way” episodes where they drank.

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Anne Marie McEvoy shared how she took lessons from “Full House” and taught them in class. (Getty Images)

The former actress earned her doctorate in developmental and educational psychology from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. McEvoy joined the faculty as an assistant professor of education.

She shared how she learned lessons from the hit series and passed them on in the classroom.

“I studied adolescent development and… teach a class on it,” McEvoy told Sweetin and Barber. “I taught a whole version of the course… around ‘Full House.’ I used examples from ‘Full House.'”

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McEvoy, who played Kathy Santoni on the hit sitcom, told her “Full House” co-stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber that she was always determined to leave Hollywood to go to college. (Kevin Mazur)

McEvoy admitted that one of her students discovered she was on “Full House” and recognized her from the popular sitcom.

“People found out and… quietly after class… and said, ‘I was watching TV last night and I saw you. Was that you on ‘Full House?’” she said.

McEvoy said she would laugh and reply, “You have an exam tomorrow. What are you doing, watching TV?”

McEvoy also appeared in “Mr. Belvedere”. (Getty Images)

“It was almost at the beginning of the semester that I got exposed and then everyone found out. And there’s not much else you can really say, so I just threw myself into it,” she explained.

McEvoy said she incorporated lessons about “adolescent sexuality, drinking, family and peers” into sample scenes from “Full House.”

“It’s a fantastic show for that. All the big stuff… and identity. Your sense of who you are and trying on makeup… and fighting with your friends… I mean, that’s what it is, was,” she said.

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While the “Full House” actress has no plans to return to her acting career anytime soon, McEvoy did reprise the role of Santoni in the 2016 Netflix reboot “Fuller House.”

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