After looking back on his recent passionate exchange with former Boy Meets World co-star Danielle Fishel, Maitland Ward has a few ideas.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Ward, who portrayed Rachel McQuire in the late season of his beloved TV show in the '90s,'s 'Very toxic' situation he discovered while appearing on the 'Pod Meets World' podcast It's open. on monday.
“I never thought it would take before,” Ward said. “And I'm going to come out there and go to Daniel and start rehashing things like that I said I was trying to do because I can see her sitting there. There was none.
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Maitland Ward and Danielle Fishel made a passionate exchange on a recent episode of “Pod Meets World.” (Getty Images)
During the episode, Ward joined host and former co-star Fishel Rider Strong, and joined Friedle to discuss shared experiences on the show. However, things got worse when Fischel asked Ward if he didn't like her.
“No, I don't hate you,” Ward said. “I think you hate me because you don't talk to me in “The World of Girls' Meeting” (a spin-off of the Disney Channel of “Boy Meets World”), which hurts. ”
“You had an attitude about it. There was some beef between us, but I didn't get it,” she later added. “I didn't know if I thought I was trying to get attention. I was really confused as to why we weren't good.”
Ward told Fox News Digital that she feels “bullyed” by her former friends and co-stars, claiming it is a “very toxic” situation.
“I felt [bullied] That's because there were three for one, and really four for one. [Fishel’s] My husband is a producer,” she continued. , and you look at an old friend, and then suddenly all the complaints you had with them are fresh in their hearts and they want to come to you. So it felt like a very toxic situation. ”
Maitlandward says he found the podcast “toxic” to look like it. (Getty Images)
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The second half of the episode Fischel asked. Ward responded why she spoke negatively about the cast in the past, and why Ward responded, “Are you trying to accuse you of using me, or am I trying to accuse me?”
“I think there's a disparity because you hate Ben (the savages) too, and you guys hate Michael (Jacobs),” she added.
“Ben is one of the most important people I've ever met in my life and I can't stand the fact that he doesn't tell us,” Friedle replied.
“That's right. He won't talk to us,” he said. “I literally showed me the last three years of message and in the middle of a conversation with Ben, he just saved me. “And never told me why.”
When Fishel asked Ward if he would listen to podcasts regularly, she said “no,” but claimed it focused on a lot of “negative things.”
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Ward has since become a successful adult movie star. (Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)
“The same way you wrote your book about your experiences doesn't mean they're negative,” said Fischel, who referenced Ward's 2022 memoir. “They're just an experience. So you don't listen to podcasts regularly, but your overall opinion on that is that we're negative about Michael, Ben and the show. ”
“Let's be honest about this. You know people are interested, so you're trying to get a reputation for me now. I just wanted to remember a good time. That's all,” Ward said.
“I'm not the kind of person I wanted to go for reviews… this is what you wanted,” replied Fischel.
After saying goodbye, Fischel said Ward's decision to join the podcast appears to be “an opportunity for her to report on the conflict.”
“It's just like the way she decided when “girls meet the world,” and that's why everything was in the press. The opportunity she gains the press by creating a conflict. I'm not your girl who does that,” Fischel said of the enthusiastic exchange. “And she thought it was dishonest for me to reach out to her. I think it was dishonest to want to do that for statistics.”
The ward had a different perspective.
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Ward said he was interested in returning to the podcast. (Getty Images)
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“I didn't create any competitions on that show,” she told Fox News Digital. “I wasn't trying to create a conflict, and I think it's funny to say that she tried to create a conflict from it and then to make a report when she tried to create a conflict for this show. Podcast.”
“I had no intention of profiting financially from that show,” she added. “So I think she's very two-sided in such a situation. I don't think I enjoy success from such a “world of boy encounters.” I'll do it again. ”
Fox News Digital contacted Fishel, Strong and Friedle with representatives for the Comment.
Despite repeated and before and after, Ward said he would not oppose returning to the podcast to discuss everything in a productive way.
“I'm not a coward on it,” she said. “I'll come back and do it, but it needs to be done in a more positive way that I would speculate.”
“We wish we could talk about it in a way that could bring the audience in and that could lead to a positive situation where it could be that they could learn from each other and the audience could have. “We grew up with us in those circumstances,” she added. “That should have been the case.”
