Joey Lawrence and Samantha Cope’s Holiday Reconciliation
Earlier this month Joey Lawrence and estranged wife Samantha Cope announced their reconciliation and holiday marriage movie. The Universal Bullshit Translator decodes Joey’s gratitude for the unicorn Santa brought.
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Is it a coincidence that Samantha Cope called off the divorce from her cheating husband Joey Lawrence just in time for the launch of their straight-to-digital holiday movie? Which, with the subtlety of a heteronormative anvil is called MARRY Christmas. Get it? (Divorce Christmas didn’t test as well.)
I don’t follow all the goings on of Hollywood’s wandering dicks, Tracy. What are you nattering on about?
Joey Lawrence’s reconciliation!
Santa brought him a unicorn for Christmas and he’s ever, ever so grateful.
Joey Lawrence is owning up to his “mistakes” after reconciling with his wife Samantha Cope.
The actor, 48, announced his reconciliation with Cope, 37, on Dec. 4 via Instagram, and is now opening up about how “thankful” he is to have their relationship back on track after she filed for divorce in August.
“I’m very thankful. It’s been great. You know, you make some terrible mistakes and it just feels great to have a second chance to get everything right,” Lawrence told Entertainment Tonight. “So I love her to death and I’m very thankful.”
Also, we have a blockbuster youtube movie coming out celebrating the joys of the wedding industry performative matrimony, so a divorced dad vibe would be a bad look right now.
Fucking around on the mother of your infant child isn’t a bad look?
No, that’s a mistake.
The Universal Bullshit Translator feels the need to weigh in. Say more, People magazine.
Admitting it was “brutal” to work through their relationship issues so publicly — a source told PEOPLE in August that Lawrence allegedly had an affair with costar Melina Alves which prompted the split — the Melissa & Joey star said he made “some serious mistakes” with Cope.
“You don’t handle things correctly and there’s a lot of pressure and like I said, going through it publicly doesn’t make it any easier,” he told the outlet.
Monogamy is brutal. You have no idea how hard this has been.
Lawrence previously denied having an affair with Alves, writing in a statement on Instagram in August, “Melina and I became close friends and I did not have a physical relationship with her while filming the movie Socked in for Christmas. These rumors are false.”
How many holiday reconciliation movies has Joey Lawrence made? Can Socked in for Christmas compete with MARRY Christmas? Are there sock fights? (The UBT is not going to watch it, just curious.)
Anyway, these rumors are false, except that they’re true. Hey, mistakes. Whaddya gonna do?
“And then you make some more bad decisions… And at the end of the day, life is what happens outside of the cameras. And when your heart is hurting, just to have an opportunity to get it right this time with her… I’m really thankful. She’s amazing and I love her to death.”
Outside the cameras, I screw around.
Lawrence also said that he now knows he has to “put your wife first” but admitted, “There’s a lot of things that come into play that just make it very difficult to do that.”
I would put my wife first but my dick gets in the way. It’s very difficult to get around my dick.
This is my third marriage, but I now know I have to consider my wife in matters of my dick. #slowlearner
Joey Lawrence’s reconciliation comes as a shock to his Schmoopie.
Following Lawrence’s reunion with Cope, Alves told PEOPLE the reconciliation “came as a surprise.”
“While these situations are always multifaceted, I’d like to keep the details of it and my friendship with Joey private,” Alves said in a statement, “As far as Joey and Sam reuniting and reconciling, it came as a surprise to me as everyone else, and if it’s true, I wish them all the love.”
The details of my continued affair with Joey are private. Surprise, Samantha! You aren’t winning this pick me dance. #allthelove
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Meanwhile, if you’d like more details on this made-for-TV reconciliation, they’re quoting Mary Oliver and holding hands on the beach over at Instagram. I think it’s gonna last. At least until Joey Lawrence gets a co-star.
Let’s hope she gets a Post-nup. The distancing language is SO noticeable now. ‘You make a mistake’, errrr, don’t you mean ‘I’. And it wasn’t a mistake when you were consciously sneaking around behind your wife’s back, lying, planning, gaslighting. It was deliberate. Uggghh. Also, why are so many of these cheaters so fucking ORDINARY and unoriginal. It’s like watching a Scooby Doo background whizzing by.
At some point – preferably sooner rather than later – I hope that Samantha realises that she deserves better than this.
LFTT
PS: Here’s wishing all of Chump Nation a happy and FW free 2025.
I hope she has a good support system who can help her get out. Statistically it can take several tries to leave an abusive relationship so this backtracking doesn’t surprise me, unfortunately.
Who would watch his movie anyways? He is the worst actor. I can’t think of a worst actor I’ve ever seen in a movie. I like horror movies. I will watch low budget horror movies made by students with camcorders. Joey Lawrence did a horror movie called Rest Stop. Absolute worst acting performance I have ever seen in my entire life HANDS DOWN. I had to turn it off and I almost never turn off movies. I could not get through his “acting.” It was so bad, I could not handle the second hand embarrassment watching him struggle through his lines and try to portray emotions. His entire career is based on his being incredibly stupid and a little bit cute as a teenager. He should not still be acting. Plus that haircut makes his head look too big for his body.
No, KatiePig, I think his haircut is excellent for showing just how his head is WAY too big for him. And his wife. And his FW costar fuckbuddy (ok, maybe it’s just right for her!🤣🤣🤣).
What his haircut might not be showing is how big his little head is, and how much it rules his life. And RUINS others.
Sorry, couldn’t resist. Best wishes to you, KatiePig, and happy New Year. And to everyone in CN, as well.😊
I have never heard of this guy so I looked him up. He did the voice of Oliver in Oliver and Company. My kids liked that one. He became “famous” when I was busy having 5 kids, and then his second successful show started when I was busy getting divorced. Other than that he’s mostly been in dozens of really bad movies.
I also saw that he met his second wife when they were teenagers. But he was married to somebody else for 3 years first…and then less than three months after the divorce he married the second wife. And then less than three months after the second divorce he married Samantha Cope who is his third wife.
This guy is not marriage material. But Samantha should have known that when she married him. Both of these people are gross.
So he’s a relatively obscure actor with only one big credit? No wonder I’ve never heard of him.
I used to love turn-around stories of all types. Now, being older and wiser, I’m such a skeptic, particularly when it comes to disordered individuals. But mostly I keep my mouth shut about such things. But Chump Nation knows. Poor Samantha. I hope she figures out that further investment in this creep isn’t warranted.
Meanwhile, in my world, someone different read the prayer list at church on Sunday. The regular person focuses on current needs and hasn’t mentioned my ex in a long time. The FW been gone for over seven years. So the sub read my ex’s name and said, “Still praying for a U-turn.”
Sigh and whatever. Not a turn-around story.
As a child of an alcohol abuser and a woman who married a couple of those, I’m well aware of turn-around stories that involve a crap-ton of work and heartache, years of therapy and/or AA, making amends, hanging on one day at a time. Disordered cheaters are largely incapable of that much work.
A twelve-step group is what really put me back on my feet. I had basically no boundaries and believed that I could control way more than was even feasible for a mere human being. No more. Sure, I have flareups. One of my adult kids gave me a “Mom let go” this afternoon (LOL). But a huge, huge amount of work on my part.
I drove my therapist crazy for a time, talking about how my then-separated husband could turn things around if he just did X, Y, and Z. She was kind, but said he’d never, ever do X, Y, and Z, so then what? Yes, he was too disordered to put in the effort, and I was overcompensating, thinking I could work hard enough for both of us.
Nope. Divorce was the end point there. Then, I could work on my turn-around story.
It’s so much less pain initially, to head back to the same barn and not go through with a divorce. The cheaters seem so sorry, beg and use general words that soften the hearts of chumps. They know how to push those empathy buttons we have but they do not. The mask goes back on and the rote ” sorry” words that come pouring back. My counselor said it takes abused individuals x7 leaving and returning cycles to get unglued from abusive actors. I prayed for freedom and it took me 1 D day and not one glance back from then on. That’s only because all my Spackle dropped off the giant gapping hole in my wall, at one moment. Bam, the mask was gone and the evil was right there. I wish for this relationship the same freedom. Unfortunately in our social media soaked world and fish tank of money avaliable for reconciliation and couplehood on Instagram and FB etc..it does not pay to be mighty. Thats my opinion only.
Why does it take x7 tries leaving and returning cycles? That seems like pure misery! I had not heard of that.
Ive read this and my therapist told me it can get much worse.
On average, it takes a victim seven times to leave before staying away for good. Exiting the relationship is most unsafe time for a victim. As the abuser senses that they’re losing power, they will often act indangerous ways to regain control over their victim.
OMG, what is going on with the men in this family? I’d like to remind everyone that Joey’s brother, Matthew (older brother in Mrs. Doubtfire movie) also cheated on his wife, Dancing with the Stars, Cheryl Burke. Maybe it’s not just the men in this family, maybe it is men in general? Maybe a good portion of them are being raised as misogynists and narcissists that objectify women and think they can just do whatever they want – cheat, lie, gaslight, abuse, harm – and suffer zero consequences. And they are getting away with it because society allows it. There is no being held accountable for being a douche bag like that.
I don’t know, I am no expert by any means. Just seems like a constant trend. Women cheat too, I know, but by far, it is men. However, I do think the pool of women that cheat has grown or is growing.
But I also know there are good men and women out there too. Just seems like a significant problem here that needs to be addressed and people just don’t want to deal with it. They look the other way or blame the chumps (of course).
Are people just not taught morals and ethics anymore? What is it? How do we work on fixing this?
It is behavior that is normalized by things in this article ” you make a mistake…” Destroying your wife and children’s lives is not making a mistake. Forgetting the milk at the store is a mistake. Cheating and destruction is a CHOICE that so many people make without pause, and it makes me sick. I’m sick of it being in movies and TV shows all the time, like it’s just the norm, everyone does it.
Sorry, long rant fellow chumps. Just gets under my skin sometimes!
“…it came as a surprise to me as much as everyone else, and if it’s true…”
She’s giving off Sabrina Carpenter vibes.
I heard you’re back together and if that’s true
You’ll just have to taste me when he’s kissin’ you
If you want forever, and I bet you do
Just know you’ll taste me too
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Ah, that’s the same Utah mansion as in Hallmark’s “Finding Mr Christmas”!
I laughed out loud at “It’s very difficult to get around my dick.”
Wishing everyone a great 2025!
2023 was bad for me – and 2024 so so so much worse, so I am very scared.
Disfor, my spidey sense tells me that your 2025 will be good. 🙌🏽
OMG. I was going to point out the similarity to Hallmark Christmas specials, but wow.
Melina Alves should take a page from “Mistress Voices” on that self publishing sewer known as Medium and resolve this by putting a hex on the serial FW.
Think I’m kidding? https://medium.com/how-to-hex-an-ex/my-ex-affair-partner-hurt-me-for-the-last-time-845decc80a8b
Maybe Disney will pick up the option for a show about Wiccan side pieces and call it “Homehexers” (or would that be Homerhexers?).
Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes.
They were CHOICES.
He didn’t trip and fall into another woman’s pu$$y.
I despise anyone who ruins Mary Oliver for me.
And this guy is not in the least attractive. What would anyone see in him? Ugh.
Who in the name of almighty fuckeroo are these two dingbats?
That was a rhetorical question. I don’t care enough about them to find out. They obviously suck.
I have a pet theory. Anyone who says “I love him/her to death” is going to — yeah, mess with their “loved” one really badly.
OMG, my FW said that to me all the time…
“To death” is pretty chilling. I don’t think I’ve ever used that expression for anyone I actually love.
Samantha Cope was The Other Woman during his first marriage so I never had any sympathy for her. I love it when cheaters end up together. Keeps them out of the dating pool and away from the rest of us.
“I love her to death.”
One of the creepiest things a cheater can say about his Chump, after she tried to leave and went back. Chilling!