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Danielle Fishel is airing out the truth about “Girl Meets World.” The actress, 43, revealed she had a “difficult” time shooting the “Boy Meets World” spinoff series, which aired on Disney Channel from 2014 to 2017, on Monday’s episode of her “Pod Meets World” podcast.
Fishel got into a heated argument on the podcast with former co-star Maitland Ward, who accused Fishel of ignoring her on the “Girl Meets World” set. That prompted Fishel to open up about her experience on the show.
“It was a very, very difficult set,” Fishel explained. “Let’s put it this way, the memories we have of the fun set of ‘Boy Meets World’ were not the memories of the fun set of ‘Girl Meets World.’ It just wasn’t.”
“I went into it hoping it was going to be, and it just wasn’t,” Fishel continued. “It was a rather tumultuous place. It was a place I felt very ostracized. I felt very criticized. I felt a lot of different things being on that set.”
“That was not the set of Danielle being carefree and running around shaking hands and kissing babies,” Fishel added.
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“Girl Meets World” starred Rowan Blanchard, Sabrina Carpenter and Peyton Meyer. “Boy Meets World alums Fishel, Ward, Ben Savage, Will Friedle and Rider Strong made appearances.
Fishel and her fellow “Pod Meets World” hosts Friedle, 48, and Strong, 45, welcomed Ward onto the podcast to discuss “Boy Meets World” — but things got heated when Ward, now an adult film actress, accused Fishel of holding a grudge against her for years.
“You did not speak to meet on the set of ‘Girl Meets World,’ except for, ‘Hi,’” Ward told Fishel. “That’s it. I have no pictures with you on that set.”
Ward claimed Fishel “had an attitude” when they reunited on the spinoff. “I didn’t know if you thought I was trying to come on the set and steal attention or something,” Ward said.
Fishel denied ignoring Ward on the set and told her former co-star, “I’m sorry that you thought it was about you. You and I have totally different and both perfectly valid experiences.”
Later on, Ward alleged that the podcast trio “hate” Savage, 44, and Michael Jacobs, who created both shows — which inspired Friedle to speak up against Ward.
“Ben is one of the most important people I’ve ever met in my life, and I can’t stand the fact that he won’t speak to us. And that’s what it is: He won’t speak to us. I can show you the last three years, literally, of messages and in the middle of a conversation with Ben, he just bailed on me. Ben absolutely one day woke up and said, ‘I don’t want Will in my life,’ and never told me why,” said Friedle.
After Ward left the podcast, Fishel told her co-hosts that Ward used the fight “as an opportunity for her to get press.”
Fishel, Friedle and Strong started their “Boy Meets World” rewatch podcast in 2022. The ABC sitcom aired from 1993 to 2000.
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