The Lawrence brothers introduced a significant household reunion second to 90s Con in Daytona.
On Friday, Sept. 13, Joey, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence reunited for a panel, moderated by PEOPLE’s Dory Jackson, through which they mentioned their shut bond and their former sitcom, Brotherly Love.
Talking to rising up within the highlight — Joey was acting on The Tonight Present Starring Johnny Carson when he was simply 6 years outdated — the brothers credited their stability to “the household unit.”
“Our dad and mom are nice,” Joey mentioned. “We had our grandparents with us rather a lot and we actually had a big group that was continuously touring and insulating and made it in regards to the work. The work was primarily a passion, handled like journey baseball or sports activities for lots of children. It was by no means life.”
Joey continued on how his mother maintained a way of normalcy for the trio.
“She stored me enrolled in my non-public faculty again in Philly. When Andy was born she took Matt and I out of the enterprise for 3 years,” he continued. “It was all the time a passion, by no means our lives. Our life we lived. That perspective actually stored the angle proper for us so the successes and failures by no means predicated our success and failure as a human being. We had these, however it by no means needed to do with the enterprise. That was paramount in us with the ability to navigate.”
To that finish, regardless of their fame, Matthew and Joey truly shared a room till the latter was 16 — full with bunk beds.
“I feel Joe had sufficient once I satisfied my mother to get a canine and the canine was within the room sleeping with me,” Matthew mentioned with amusing.
“There have been different issues, too,” Joey added. “I used to be 16! I wanted to have somewhat house.”
Brotherly Love featured the trio taking part in the fictional Roman brothers. Within the sequence, the household’s eldest brother returns to assist run the household enterprise following their father’s loss of life. It premiered on NBC in 1995, the place it ran for one season, earlier than transferring to The WB (now The CW) for its remaining season.
Regardless of its transient run, the real-life siblings’ star continued to rise thereafter — and so they not too long ago teamed up once more to host a Brotherly Love podcast, which launched final 12 months.
Previous to his run on the sitcom together with his youthful brothers, Joey, now 48, starred on Blossom, and after, his personal present with Melissa Joan Hart, Melissa & Joey.
Within the weeks earlier than his 90s Con look, he and his wife Samantha Cope split up, with the actress submitting for divorce on Aug. 20, although she cited their date of separation as June 7.
Days later, he responded to the “allegations” of infidelity he was facing in a statement on Instagram, vehemently denying claims he had an affair together with his Socked in for Christmas costar Melina Alves as he referred to as his marriage to Cope, 37, “deeply troubled.”
“I used to be clinging to hope that I might save a relationship that, in my coronary heart, I knew was past saving. My short-lived marriage was fraught with difficulties from the start. Our variations turned insurmountable.”
He then claimed that his older two daughters, Charleston, 18, and Liberty, 14, whom he shares together with his ex-wife Chandie Yawn-Nelson, weren’t going to be “accepted” by Cope as “a part of my household,” and he mentioned that realization “performed a major position within the breakdown of my relationship.”
She responded to his assertion, saying in her own statement shared with PEOPLE, “As a mom who values her daughter above all else, I discover these false accusations deeply troubling. I’m assured that the reality is understood to me, to Joey, and to God.”
90s Con marked Joey’s first public look for the reason that divorce.
As for his brothers, Matthew, now 44, went on to star in Mrs. Doubtfire and Boy Meets World as Rider Strong‘s on-screen brother, Jack Hunter.
Like Joey, Matthew has additionally gone by a recent divorce, having cut up from Dancing with the Stars‘ Cheryl Burke in 2022 after three years of marriage. He’s now dating TLC’s Rozonda “Chili” Thomas.
The youngest of the brothers, Andrew, who’s now 36, additionally pursued appearing like his older brothers, starring in Hawaii Five-O and Disney Channel’s Recess, amongst different works.
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In 2022, Joey spoke to PEOPLE about his household’s enduring fame as he mentioned he looks back on their Brotherly Love days “fondly.”
“These followers are nonetheless there. They’re simply of their mid-30s now,” he mentioned. “It has been a loopy trajectory. You undergo ups and downs, however 41 years later and having the type of alternatives and nonetheless having quite a lot of room to develop and quite a lot of issues that I’ve but to perform, and I am actually pushed to get there.”
90s Con Florida is happening by Sunday, Sept. 15, on the Ocean Heart in Daytona Seashore, Fla.