Jaleel White reacts to 'Family Matters' co-stars saying he's 'difficult' to work with: 'Told not to argue with my elders'

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Jaleel White reacts to 'Family Matters' co-stars saying he's 'difficult' to work with: 'Told not to argue with my elders'
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“They’re also over 70, and I’ve been told not to argue with my elders from the time I was 12 years old.”

Jaleel White is hitting back at his “ Family Matters ” co-stars’ comments about his alleged “difficult” behavior on the beloved ’90s sitcom set.During the interview, Andy Cohen asked White how he felt about his co-stars Joe Marie Payton and Reginald VelJohnson claiming he was a handful on set.“They, at one point, said publicly that you were not that easy to work with,” Cohen said.

“They’re also over 70, and I’ve been told not to argue with my elders from the time I was 12 years old,” he responded. “So you know, with Jo Marie, it’s always like, what day did I catch her on or what day did the interviewer catch her? I talk about it in the book.”finished when he was 22 In 2022, Payton — who played Harriette Baines Winslow, the matriarch of the family that lived next door to Urkel — toldthat White would “run wild and do whatever he wanted to do, thinking he can say what he wants to say, you know, and hurt people’s feelings and all that.”. “But I’ll always love him. He was always a child to me, and I don’t care how old he is, he’s still a child to me … to me, no matter how old he gets, he’ll still be a baby.

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