Jaleel White says he ‘was not very well welcomed’ by the Family Matters cast

It’s very important that I say this: I was not very well welcomed to the cast at all, okay?” White said in a wide-ranging installment of TVOne’s Uncensored on Sunday.

He was initially cast for a guest role, but he said the reception to him during his first table read was so good that he was hired for the full season soon after.

“And they heaped that on me, and they let me know I was not doing our race a service by putting on that yellow dress,” he said.

But I do think they do deserve credit at times for having helped foster a more harmonious environment by season 3, by season 4, by season 5.

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