Todd Bridges got along well with his onscreen brother Gary Coleman –- at first. By the third season of the show, the dynamic changed as Coleman's fame soared. Bridges wrote about the change in his 2010 memoir, "Killing Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted."

In his tell-all, Bridges revealed that Coleman's father, Willie, began touting his son as the "star" of "Diff'rent Strokes" and isolated him from the rest of the cast. This, in turn, gave the 4-foot-8-inch Coleman a big head, and he became insufferable to work with. After Bridges finally approached Coleman to tell him to knock off the superior attitude, the child star told him to "shut up." The confrontation turned physical after Bridges told Coleman he was not to speak to him like that. "He didn't have a comeback for that, so he slapped me," Bridges wrote in his memoir. "My cheek stung where he had hit me. I slapped him back."

Bridges, who was three years older than his co-star, claimed that he then walked off the set to keep himself from really hurting Coleman. But there were repercussions, and Coleman's dad allegedly tried to have Bridges fired from "Diff'rent Strokes." Because the show about two brothers would never work without him, Bridges was instead written out of four episodes as punishment, he claimed. The child actors only spoke on camera after that and didn't make up until a decade later –- after Coleman was no longer under the watch of his controlling parents.

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