“Boy Meets World” actor Maitland Ward is talking out after a podcast reunion with former co-star Danielle Fishel devolved right into a contentious, on-air feud.
Talking to TMZ Tuesday, Ward stated she hadn’t heard from Fishel or her co-hosts within the days for the reason that interview and accused her former co-stars of setting her up.
“I really feel like Danielle wanted this moment for me to, like, kind of trap me and make me listen and make the fans listen to … her piece of the story,” she informed the outlet. “It wasn’t coming from a place of: ‘Let’s talk and let’s hash it out and forgive each other and apologize on both sides.’ It was more about: ‘I finally got this bitch right here, and I’m going to give it to her,’ you know?”
“It was, like, all of a sudden she turned into Regina George,” she continued, alluding to the “Mean Girls” character portrayed by Rachel McAdams. “Seriously, I was like, ‘What is going on?’”
As of Wednesday, Fishel had not responded publicly to Ward’s TMZ declare. HuffPost has reached out to “Pod Meets World” for remark.
Fishel and Ward portrayed Topanga Lawrence and Rachel McGuire, respectively, on “Boy Meets World,” which aired from 1993 to 2000 on ABC.
Although Ward has deserted mainstream appearing work for an grownup movie profession lately, she was interviewed on Monday’s episode of “Pod Meets World,” the “Boy Meets World” rewatch podcast Fishel co-hosts with fellow actors Will Friedle and Rider Sturdy.
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By the tip of the interview, nevertheless, Ward and Fishel had begun buying and selling barbs about one another’s actions within the years since their sequence wrapped, seemingly confirming rumors of a behind-the-scenes rift.
Most of the allegations had been granular. Ward, as an illustration, accused Fishel of being “disingenuous” and unfriendly to her on the set of “Girl Meets World,” the “Boy Meets World” spinoff sequence that aired from 2014 to 2017, and of ignoring a message she’d despatched her on Fb years in the past.
As for Fishel, she alleged Ward had used her current media appearances merely to “drag our names through the mud.”
Information of the podcast quickly caught the attention of one other “Boy Meets World” actor, Trina McGee, who expressed her help for Fishel on Instagram.
“Speaking clearly and holding her ground is the way I like to handle my business also,” she wrote partly. “Sometimes, the ones you uplift only care about their own agenda. They start unnecessary drama, not for truth, but for attention—media chasers, energy usurpers. Instead of riding with you, they’d rather take the plane down just to make themselves look like the hero in the wreckage.”
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Regardless of any lingering tensions, Ward informed TMZ she’s sure she’ll converse to Friedle, Fishel and Sturdy sooner or later.
“The truth of the matter is, ‘Boy Meets World’ was such a special time,” she defined. “We’re always going to be connected.”
