Henry Winkler explains how his 30-year feud with Tom Hanks began

The feuds of all feuds.

Henry Winkler addressed his rumored yrs-lengthy drama with Tom Hanks that started back in the 1980s for the duration of the Might 7 episode of the “How to Fail” podcast.

The “Happy Days” star, 78, spelled out how he was fired from directing the 1989 buddy cop film “Turner & Hooch,” which starred Hanks, 67, as a detective solving the murder of his former lover and caring for his doggy.

“I did 11 weeks of preparing,” Winkler stated about the project, which ended up staying directed by Roger Spottiswoode.

“I understood this pet dog, this slobbery mastiff and I grew to become good friends. The star did not turn out to be my close friend.”

Winkler was asked if he meant Hanks, and he responded, “I almost certainly do.”

Ahead of he was fired from the film, Winkler and Hanks experienced an interaction with a lover that Winkler believes induced a pressure on their romance.

“We had been in Carmel, this minimal seaside fantastic town on the coast of California, wanting for a area and a female will come, straightforward to God, arrives functioning out of a shop and says ‘Henry, Fonz! Oh, my god!’ and I say, ‘And of program you know Tom Hanks,’ ” Winkler reported.

“The director of images, when I was fired 13 times into filming explained, ‘I understood that this was going to materialize, on that working day in Carmel,’ ” he included.

The Submit has arrived at out to reps for Winkler and Hanks for remark.

Back again in 1993, Winkler sparked the rumors about his feud with Hanks when he instructed People today, “Let’s just say I received along improved with Hooch than I did with Turner.”

The pair’s romantic relationship became a warm subject matter yet again in 2020 when Winkler’s “Happy Days” co-star Ron Howard reported it “was disappointing” that Winkler and Hanks did not get alongside

“I’m mates with them both and both males felt compelled to appear to talk to me about it,” stated Howard, 70, in an interview with The Guardian. “It was just a single of people regrettable factors in which they genuinely had a doing the job design and style that did not in good shape.”

Howard additional: “I know it was agonizing for both equally of them and I was equipped to lend an ear, if not provide any alternatives.”

Winker, for his portion, downplayed the drama with Hanks in the earlier.

“I don’t have a feud with Tom Hanks,” Winkler bluntly instructed TMZ in January 2020. “What everybody says and what is correct are two distinctive things.”

Two decades afterwards, Winkler clarified that he and Hanks are “cordial” when they cross paths.

“I ran into Tom and Rita [Wilson] at an award show just before the pandemic, and it was pretty warm,” the “Barry” star explained on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM radio demonstrate in June 2022.

“It’s all incredibly cordial,” he extra.

Hanks has hardly ever spoken about his alleged beef with Winkler.

The two shared the monitor in an episode of “Happy Days” in 1982.

Hanks played a disgruntled former classmate of Winkler’s Fonzie.