In a recent interview, “Family Matters” fans criticize Jaleel White for his noticeably “passive-aggressive” comments about his former co-stars on the sitcom.

The actor, who played Steve Urkel for nine seasons on the show, gained a status for being “difficult” and difficult to work with when his co-stars Jo Marie Payton and Reginald VelJohnson began talking about their experiences, sharing the highlight with him.

White was only 12 years old when he guest-starred on the ABC sitcom in 1989, but the recognition of the nerd who lived round the corner to the Winslows not only earned him a spot on the solid, but additionally a top spot on the leading star’s call-in chart.

Payton, who played Harriet Winslow, previously described White as a confrontational person and even alleged, “One time he wanted to fight me physically.” Their almost “hand-to-hand combat” began during a vision difference within the Season 9 episode titled “Original Gangsta Dawg,” during which White played Urkel’s streetwise cousin, OGD.

White remembers feeling unwelcome and sensing signs of jealousy from the solid as he became the show’s principal character amongst fans.

During a recent appearance on Sirius XM’s “Radio Andy,” he once more had the chance to talk in regards to the tensions on set. Host Andy Cohen asked specifically: “At one point they said publicly that you are not easy to work with. Did that surprise you?”

The ’90s star replied: “They’re over 70 too, and I used to be told from the age of 12 not to argue with older people, so you recognize, with Jo Marie it is usually like what day did I catch her or what day did the host catch her conversation.”

White is currently promoting his memoir, “Growing Up Urkel,” and noted that he discusses the split within the book. In an attempt to get back at being perceived as difficult, he argued that he was “self-aware” enough to be liable for at the very least communicating disruptive behavior.

“As a 13-year-old, I always took my basketball with me. I was dribbling my basketball all over the place and I hear script supervisor Joyce Webb say, “Oh, here goes the basketball.” It was a constant tap, tap, tap,” White admitted. “If that’s what they called me difficult, then OK,” he said in a video shared on Instagram.

Immediately user commented“He’s turning 50 and still acting like a brat.” Someone else responded to White’s comments: “So he’s discounting validity because of their age? Take care of yourself.”

A 3rd response was: “He at all times comes across exactly as his co-workers describe him…he/seems absolutely unbearable, it just oozes out of him. Come to your senses, man, you are a top actor from a 30-year-old one-hit wonder.

But White wasn’t the just one who found success within the comments. The critic wrote: “lol, Harriet was jealous since it was supposed to be her show and he screwed it up. I do not know the way you argue with a toddler. The actress clarified her statements about beef on the set of last 12 months’s edition Horse. from the 90s.

Jaleel White’s father stepped in after Jo Marie Payton and Reginald VelJohnson told Jaleel White that he was harming the Black community in a single particular scene. Don’t miss the all-new episode #UNCENSORED this Sunday at 10P/9C pic.twitter.com/OJQd7ohXkx

— TV One (@tvonetv) May 5, 2021

She began by saying, “Sometimes you bump heads and stuff, but I’ll at all times love him. He has at all times been a toddler to me and irrespective of how old he’s, he continues to be a toddler to me. …for me, irrespective of how old he’s, he’ll still be a toddler. And I forgive all the pieces because I actually have such a heart that I can forget things.

VelJohnson supported his on-screen wife by saying, “He had a lot on his plate since we were already a family, but he had to get into the group and introduce himself,” and “We love him. “We’re sorry he’s not here, but he’s a special person.”

In 2017, the solid gathered for a special reunion for the primary time since “Family Matters” aired in 1998. Payton then said that she and White had discussed the potential for rebooting the series.

According to her, “He said, ‘You know, we can do it.’ I said, “If that they had thrown the script at our feet after we left here, we might have come back tomorrow and had a show shoot the subsequent day.”

However, since then, the “Big Liar” star has abandoned any hopes of reprising the role. In his memoir, he writes that around 2016 he turned down an incarnation of the unique series centering on the lives of Urkel and Laura (played by Kellie Shanygne Williams).

Instead, White pitched an idea for a show specializing in how he became a kid’s television phenomenon, handed down by producers.