KJ Apa is recalling a time when he almost got into a fight with Cole Sprouse.
The 29-year-old actor and the 33-year-old actor were co-stars for several years on the CW series Riverdale, which ran for seven seasons.
During a recent appearance on Cole‘s twin brother Dylan Sprouse‘s podcast, Wildmen, with Brendon Columbus, KJ recalled a time when he went out with the Sprouse twins, and Cole punched him in the face.
“Cole and I would walk into places in Vancouver all the time and get called [names]. I remember we almost got into a fight,” KJ shared, as Dylan noted his brother “likes to get into fisticuffs.”
“Oh, I’ve been around,” KJ added. “He punched me in the face!”
Dylan was actually there at that time, saying KJ “ran like an ostrich” after.
“He punched you, then you ran away,” he recalled. “Also, I looked at my brother after that, and I was like, ‘Dude, you could have just died.’ I made the mistake of trying to chase after [KJ]. I was like, ‘Oh, dude, I’m going to get him.’ You were three blocks away by the time I was like just getting my bearings. I called you. I was like, ‘My god.’ You might still have the voicemail.”
KJ then explained what happened that led Cole to punch him.
“He hit me because we were in a strip club and, at this time, I was doing a lot of drugs and a lot of my close friends were worried about me,” KJ shared. “And he had learned that I was doing drugs again… It was a love punch.”
“It was kind of a wake-up punch,” Dylan added, which KJ agreed with, saying, “Yeah. No, it was a wake-up punch.”
Dylan went on to note that he was appreciative of his brother’s bond with KJ.
“I thought you and Cole’s interaction, I always thought was like really beautiful as a brother,” he said. “Because I go, first off, you worry for your sibling when he goes out and he does a show where he’s not from and he lives there for years.”
“And I go, ‘w’Well, he’s not going to have anyone he’s really close to.’ And I worried about him,” Dylan continued. “But then he calls me, and he called me all the time, and he was like, ‘I got to tell you, I’m so glad KJ’s here.’”
“I’m glad you guys had an interaction, which then I immediately knew as a brother, I was like, ‘Okay, he’s safe. He has at least someone who’s like of a similar mentality to him, the similar kind of person.’”
Last year, KJ opened up about his sobriety and how becoming a father saved his life.
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