After reflecting on her current heated alternate with former “Boy Meets World” co-star Danielle Fishel, Maitland Ward has some ideas.
In an unique interview with Fox Information Digital, Ward – who portrayed Rachel McQuire within the later seasons of the beloved ’90s TV present – opened up concerning the “very poisonous” state of affairs she discovered herself in whereas showing on the “Pod Meets World” podcast on Monday.
“I by no means anticipated the flip it was going to take, ever,” stated Ward, who was bluntly requested by Fishel if she hated her former co-stars throughout the episode. “And I used to be not going to come back in there and begin going at Danielle or begin rehashing issues like she stated that I used to be plotting to do as a result of you’ll be able to see I used to be simply sitting there, and unexpectedly she simply flips.”
‘BOY MEETS WORLD’ ACTRESS MAITLAND WARD SLAMS CO-STAR AS ‘DISINGENUOUS’ DURING FIERY EXCHANGE
Maitland Ward and Danielle Fishel had a heated alternate throughout a current episode of “Pod Meets World.” (Getty Photos)
Throughout the episode, Ward joined hosts and former co-stars Fishel, Ryder Robust and Will Friedle to debate their shared expertise on the present. Nevertheless, when Fishel requested Ward if she hated them, issues took a flip for the more serious.
“No, I don’t hate you,” stated Ward, who has since discovered success as an grownup movie star. “I feel that you just hate me since you would not communicate to me on ‘Woman Meets World’ (the Disney Channel spin-off of ‘Boy Meets World’), and that was hurtful.”
“You had an angle about it. There was some beef between us, and I didn’t get it,” she later added. “I didn’t know for those who thought I used to be making an attempt to steal consideration… I used to be genuinely confused why we wouldn’t be good.”
Ward advised Fox Information Digital that she felt “bullied” by her former pals and co-stars, and claims it was a “very poisonous” state of affairs.
“I felt [bullied] as a result of it was three in opposition to one, actually 4 as a result of [Fishel’s] husband is the producer,” she continued. “So it was like I used to be surrounded by — I actually felt surrounded, and it is bizarre as a result of they have been my pals previously, and simply think about stepping again right into a highschool state of affairs or school or no matter, and also you see previous pals, after which unexpectedly each single grievance you ever had with them is contemporary on their minds, they usually need to simply come at you. So it felt like a really poisonous state of affairs.”
Maitland Ward says she felt her podcast look was “poisonous.” (Getty Photos)
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Later within the episode, Fishel requested Ward why she had spoken negatively concerning the forged previously, to which Ward responded, “Are you making an attempt to accuse me of utilizing you, or are you making an attempt to accuse me of one thing?”
“I feel there’s a divide, too, since you hate Ben (Savage) and also you guys hate (creator) Michael (Jacobs),” she added.
“Ben is without doubt one of the most vital individuals I’ve ever met in my life, and I can’t stand the truth that he gained’t communicate to us,” Friedle responded.
“And that’s what it’s: He gained’t communicate to us,” he stated. “I can present you the final three years, actually, of messages, and in the course of a dialog with Ben, he simply bailed on me. Ben completely in the future awoke and stated, ‘I don’t need Will in my life’ and by no means advised me why.”
When Fishel requested Ward if she listens to their podcast regularly, she stated, “No,” however claimed it focuses on a variety of “detrimental stuff.”
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Ward has since discovered success as an grownup movie star. (Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Photos)
“The identical method you wrote your e-book about your experiences doesn’t imply that they’re detrimental,” stated Fishel, who referenced Ward’s 2022 memoir. “They’re simply experiences. So that you don’t hearken to the podcast recurrently, however your total opinion of it’s that we’re detrimental about Michael and Ben and the present.”
“Let’s be sincere about this. You’re making an attempt to go at me now to get the rankings as a result of that individuals will probably be . I simply needed to recollect the nice instances,” Ward stated.
“I’m not the one who needed to go for rankings… That is what you requested for,” Fishel responded.
After saying their goodbyes, Fishel stated Ward’s resolution to come back on the podcast appeared like “a chance for her to get press by having battle.”
“Equally to the best way she determined when ‘Woman Meets World’ and all that stuff was within the press, that that was a chance for her to make a reputation for herself in cosplay play and in role-playing, she felt like this was a chance for her to get press by having battle, which I’m simply not your woman to do this,” Fishel stated of the heated alternate. “And she or he thought it was disingenuous for me to succeed in out to her. I feel desirous to do it for stats is disingenuous.”
Ward had a distinct standpoint.
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Ward stated she can be desirous about returning to the podcast to debate all the things in a extra “optimistic” method. (Getty Photos)
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“I didn’t create the battle on that present,” she advised Fox Information Digital. “I used to be not making an attempt to create battle. And I feel it is humorous that she says I attempted to create the battle from it, to get press when she tried to create the battle for this present to get press and views and listens and all the things for the podcast.”
“I wasn’t going to learn financially from that present,” she added. “So I feel she’s very two-faced in that state of affairs. I feel she would not take pleasure in that I’ve had success from ‘Boy Meets World’ like that. And I feel she ought to be reminded that I get consideration for different issues that I do too.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out to reps for Fishel, Robust and Friedle for remark.
Regardless of the heated back-and-forth, Ward stated she would not be against returning to the podcast to debate all the things in a productive method.
“I am not a coward to that,” she stated. “I’ll come again and do it, however it must be performed in a extra optimistic method I assume.”
“I simply want we might’ve been in a position to speak it out in a method that was, in a method that the viewers may have been introduced in and have it’s a optimistic state of affairs the place we may have realized from one another and the viewers may have grown with us in that state of affairs,” she added. “It ought to have been that.”
