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Joey LawrenceA dedication to nurture his close relationships helped strengthen his marriage to Samantha Cope.
“Every situation will make you stronger if you’re willing to put the job in,” Joey, 49, told Weekly US In promoting the upcoming graphic novel Detective Agency Lawrence Brothers together with brothers Mathw and Andy Lawrence. “Life is a very imperfect journey. We make all our mistakes down here, I really believe it. I know that for fact, because I’ve made a ton and continue to make mistakes.”
Joey added, “Everything takes work. Any relationship takes work, no matter what friends, brothers and sisters – Matt, Andy and I gave a ton of work in our relationship – and we continue to work through it as we grow, as we become men.”
Said to Us he tries to “put the job in” every day with “all my relationships” – but with Cope, 38, especially.
“I love her to death, and we just spend every day working away on it,” Joey shared. “It feels good to put the job in and see the consequences of that.”
The Melissa & Joey Alum added that nothing should be “controlling cruise” in life.
Joey met Cope on a lifetime film set and started their love story in 2021. They were employed by August of that year and married in May 2022. The The couple welcomed Dylan Rose’s daughter in January 2023. (Joey is also the father of the Charleston women, 19, and Liberty, 15, which he shares with ex-wife Chandie Yawn-Nelson.)
Weekly US confirmed in August 2024 that Cope had filed for divorce from Joey, But they reconciled By December of that year, with Cope filed to dismiss his petition.
Apart from working on his relationship, Joey continues to join his brothers, Matthew, 45, and Andy, 37. Detective Agency Lawrence Brothers Graphic novel. (Tlc’s ChilliWorld Health Organization been dating matthew For 2022, Thomas Ian Nicholas. Raven-Symoné and Will Friedle also joined the detective agency.)
Joey told Us That this project is “15 years in the drawing” before actually bearing fruit. According to Matthew, they were “all on family holidays” and “thinking about these scenes” in their heads.
“We thought of them in this animated way, this kind of graphic. For some reason, we wind up being a detective agency,” explained Matthew. “We all had some experience on the procedural drama TV shows.”
He added, “We wanted to take a license that you couldn’t take in any other medium. We were delighted.”
Matthew said “it was fading away” at first but the idea came back when the brothers joined Man and Max Berkowitz – The Berkowitz Brothers – which runs a production company that creates and develops comic books. (Andy revealed that he was “the most obsessed” with comics when all three of them were growing up.)
The stories have become “a little feta,” said Joey. “I think we’ll look for lost children’s stars from the ’90s and their paraphernalia or things that might have gone missing. Special props they used to use that someone stole, we have to find. But the universe is wide.”
The trio and their creative partners have Launch of Kickstarter – Hoping to raise $ 50,000 by Saturday, August 23 – to help fund their goal. Joey said the support they have seen for the project so far is “so wild.”
“Our fans don’t know us for anything like this, but our community has been so amazing for 40 years and continues to support and blow our minds in many different ways,” he added. “So we’re very grateful for that.”