Matthew Lawrence Addresses Alleged On-Set Incident With Gabrielle Union

Throughout a current episode of the “Magical Rewind” podcast, Matthew Lawrence revealed that Gabrielle Union reported him to the director and studio whereas filming their 1999 TV film “H-E Double Hockey Sticks.”

In accordance with Lawrence, the scenario stemmed from a disagreement about rehearsing traces collectively. He claimed that Union approached him to run by means of their scenes, however he declined the supply, which he says led to her taking the matter to manufacturing.

“There was this one second the place, and, once more, I’m oblivious, I had no concept, and [Gabrielle] needed to rehearse. And I used to be like, ‘No, I’m good,” he recalled, per Entertainment Weekly. “And he or she acquired indignant and went and reported me to the director and the studio.”

Lawrence described the expertise as the one time in his profession that he was ever formally reprimanded for his habits on set. “Often I’m, like, the advocate, and I’m combating for youths and, like, you recognize, girls’s rights,” he stated. “That is the one time in my life after I was referred to as into the workplace for one thing I did on set. And I had no clue.”

Trying again, Lawrence defined that his appearing strategy on the time was to keep away from over-rehearsing in an effort to hold his efficiency feeling contemporary and pure when the cameras rolled.

“At that time, in my thoughts, now I can do no matter, and nothing’s gonna faze me, [but] at that time in my thoughts, I actually beloved memorizing the traces, realizing all of the beats,” the actor stated on the podcast. “However hated working it, trigger it felt prefer it took all of the freshness out of it.”

Nonetheless, he admitted that his perspective has modified over time, and he not insists on that strategy.

“H-E Double Hockey Sticks” premiered on ABC in October 1999 as a part of “The Great World of Disney” collection. Within the movie, Lawrence starred as a hockey participant who turns into the goal of a younger satan, performed by podcast co-host Will Friedle.

That very same yr, Union’s star energy was on the rise, due to her roles in hit teen comedies like “10 Issues I Hate About You” and “She’s All That.” Lawrence recalled that everybody on set knew she was on the trail to main success.

“She’s so stunning and he or she simply has this, like, aura of simply confidence,” podcast co-host Sabrina Bryan added through the dialogue.

Cheryl Burke just lately opened up about her break up from ex-husband Matthew Lawrence, revealing that she believes monetary dynamics and timing might have contributed to their breakup.

Final yr, throughout an look on the “I Do, Part 2” podcast, the “Dancing with the Stars” alum mirrored on the ups and downs of her relationship with Lawrence, whom she was married to for almost three years earlier than submitting for divorce in February 2022. Burke steered that their private {and professional} lives weren’t aligned, which can have created rigidity of their marriage.

Burke and Lawrence first crossed paths in 2006 when his older brother, Joey Lawrence, competed on “Dancing with the Stars” throughout its third season. On the time, Burke was on the top of her success within the ballroom dance world.

“I used to be simply on the top of the success of ‘Dancing with the Stars,'” Burke recalled. “So we have been on tour. We did two seasons a yr, two excursions a yr. So I used to be identical to working throughout the clock, barely had a time off.”

After courting for a couple of yr, the 2 referred to as it quits however reconnected in 2017, finally getting married.

When Burke and Lawrence rekindled their romance, she famous that the “Boy Meets World” actor wasn’t working as a lot on the time. Nonetheless, she insists she was totally conscious of the scenario earlier than they acquired married.

“I type of knew what I used to be moving into. That’s simply my persona. I’m by no means going to not generate income,” she defined. “That comes from my mom, who’s a rags-to-riches story. I’ve seen her hustle and was raised along with her hustle. That’s who I’m, finally.”

Burke additionally admitted that she takes satisfaction in her monetary independence and doesn’t really feel any disgrace in being the first breadwinner. Nonetheless, she acknowledges that the imbalance in earnings might have had an impression on their relationship.

“I am not going to talk for him,” Burke prefaced, “I am not right here to badmouth him in any respect. However I consider that there’s this gender position the place a person might really feel somewhat emasculated when he would not make the vast majority of the cash, and I feel which will have taken a toll.”

Burke and Lawrence finalized their divorce in September 2022, and each have since moved on.