Matthew Lawrence was revealed as the character Paparazzo during the latest season of Fox’s The Masked Singer , and despite making it through quite a good amount of rounds, the actor said he almost chickened out from joining as a contestant. “I had this real stage fright when it comes to singing in front of a large audience. I had a bad audition. I bombed a Broadway audition back in the day, and I spent two decades kind of living with that weight and saying no to these opportunities,” Lawrence told Blavity’s Shadow and Act. “This came along, and my older brother [Joey Lawrence] had done it, and my first reaction when they asked, I was like, ‘No.’ I fell back into old patterns, and I was acting out of fear.” Thanks to some convincing from his older brother (with whom he hosts the Brotherly Love podcast along with Andy Lawrence, their younger brother) he quickly learned that refusing to act out of fear can lead to amazing things. On overcoming his biggest fear “I had this kind of...
