Carl said that at first he didn’t have a problem with Martin, but once Martin started doing some foul things to him, then he developed an issue with him and their tension lasted pretty much for the duration of the show.
“You know it’s no secret, we had a lotta tense days on the set…we had a LOT of tense days on the set. I live by a certain code of ethics, I from Harlem, you know how we do.
Yeah we had issues, he [Martin Lawrence] had issues with himself really. I think he was battling his own demons, you know what I’m saying? I wish him nothing but the best, hopefully he’s better now, in a better place. I don’t think he was in a good place at that time and that’s pretty much it. It was a great place to work for a long time and then it became a not so great place to work. I keep it professional as long as I can, until you step over that line. You cross the line and you come at me in a way that I can’t sleep at night, or [if] I feel like you’re threatening me, then it’s a different story…period.
We were all like family…and sometimes families fight…families get down you know what I mean and I enjoyed myself to the fullest when we were doing it [filming the show], all of it.”
So is Carl saying that Martin was threatening him? Wow, things got that heated?!!
The nail in the coffin was when the interviewer, Jack Thriller, acknowledged that we’d all heard rumors about why the Martin show really went off the air, but that he understood that we shouldn’t believe everything we here (alluding to the rumors about Martin and Tisha Campbell-Martin not getting along and also Martin’s alleged drug use), Carl immediately responded to the interviewer by saying “You should!”
Hmmm…and there you have it people. Who would have ever thought “Cole” and “Martin” were beefin’ behind the scenes. Now that we know the real deal, we give them a big hand clap for doing a helluva job on the show and convincing us that they were cool as a fan.