'We were never friends. We never talked.'
) and James . But when the cameras weren't rolling, that familial bond apparently wasn't there. Read on to see what Walker has had to say about that tension over the years.Play"I will honestly say, I don't remember ever speaking a word to Esther the whole time she was there," Walker said. Rolle, who died in 1998, appeared on the first four seasons of the show, skipped Season 5, and returned for the final season.
"I think the same basically goes for John [Amos]," Walker continued."We talk more now, a little bit, but very, very little. We were never friends. We never talked. If you said at that time, 'Call Esther and ask her about…' I wouldn't even have her number. I couldn't have called John. I wouldn't have had his number. We never spoke to each other. Only on the set.
"He's 18 and he doesn't work. He can't read and write. He doesn't think," Rolle said of J.J."The show didn't start out to be that.