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Danielle Fishel and Maitland Ward had it out.
Plenty of drama has emerged from the Boy Meets World forged’s podcast. From reminiscences of predators who manipulated them to cover to recollections of what it was prefer to movie, they’ve shared so much.
This time, the drama erupted on the podcast itself.
An try and rehash and perhaps clean over previous points led to a head-to-head confrontation between Danielle Fishel and Maitland Ward.
Danielle Fishel speaks onstage on the Boy Meets World twenty fifth Anniversary Reunion Panel in the course of the New York Comedian Con 2018 at Javits Heart on October 5, 2018. (Photograph Credit score: Roy Rochlin/Getty Pictures)
Maitland Ward was a ‘Pod Meets World’ visitor
On the February 23 episode of the Pod Meets World podcast, Boy Meets World alum Maitland Ward sat in as a visitor.
It turned out to be a deeply contentious episode — and never over the dialogue of Ward’s intercourse work within the grownup leisure business.
A whopping 55 minutes into the episode, Danielle Fishel — podcast co-host and maybe probably the most acknowledged of the forged — requested Ward: “Do you hate us?”
Maitland Ward accepts the Finest Main Actress award in the course of the 2023 Grownup Video Information Awards at Resorts World Las Vegas on January 07, 2023. (Photograph Credit score: Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures)
“No, I do not hate you,” Maitland Ward informed Danielle Fishel. “I think that you hate me, because you wouldn’t speak to me on ‘Girl Meets World.’ And that was hurtful.”
At this level, Ward and Fishel started to relitigate their whole historical past. In 2013, Ward despatched an earnest message to Fishel over Fb. However she found that they had been now not Fb pals.
Because it turned out, Fishel had by no means seen the message. She heard about it in 2022 — from Will Friedle. In 2013, she was the place most of us are actually — hardly utilizing Fb if in any respect.
Actress Danielle Fishel arrives to attend iHeartRadio’s KIIS FM Wango Tango at The Dignity Well being Sports activities Park in Los Angeles on June 4, 2022. (Photograph Credit score: MICHAEL TRAN/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Danielle Fishel stated that Maitland Ward declined when she reached out
In accordance with the Boy Meets World star, Friedle supplied to attach them. “You wrote back to Will, ‘No, let’s just save it for the podcast,’” Fishel accused of Ward. In the meantime, Ward defined that she’d thought that they’d communicate quickly — not years later.
Maitland Ward informed Danielle Fishel that the request to speak in 2022 felt “disingenuous.” She had believed that the 2 had been pals, and between social media and the Lady Meets World set snub, she’d discovered in any other case.
“You had an attitude about it. There was some beef between us, and I didn’t get it,” Ward recalled from her time on the Lady Meets World set. “I didn’t know if you thought I was trying to steal attention… I was genuinely confused why we wouldn’t be good.”
Actress Maitland Ward poses on the 2020 AVN Grownup Leisure Expo on the Laborious Rock Lodge & On line casino on January 23, 2020. (Photograph Credit score: Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures)
At this level, Danielle Fishel informed Maitland Ward that she didn’t keep in mind this second, however felt that Lady Meets World was a “very difficult set” for her.
“It was a rather tumultuous place. I felt very ostracized,” Fishel described. She continued: “I felt very criticized. I felt a lot of different things being on that set … I am sorry that you thought I had something personally against you.”
Ward pushed again on that, suggesting: “You didn’t like the fact that I was getting a lot of attention at that time and going off in my own space and taking away that attention.”
Maitland wasn’t the one one who had a bone to choose
“Are you trying to accuse me of using you,” Ward replied. “Or are you trying to accuse me of something?” She additional clarified that TMZ‘s photographers track her down whenever there are headlines. Ward doesn’t go on the lookout for them.
Ward then introduced up that there’s a number of pressure that isn’t her fault or Fishel’s. Boy Meets World star Ben Savage now not speaks to Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, or Rider Sturdy. “I think there’s a divide too because you hate Ben and you guys hate [series creator Michael Jacobs].”
Actress Danielle Fishel attends the Comcast Leisure Group’s Tv Critics Affiliation Press Tour Social gathering on the Langham Lodge on January 15, 2010. (Photograph Credit score: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Pictures)
Will Friedle, who at this level is arguably higher identified for his (phenomenal) voice work, spoke up. He stated that Savage had ghosted him and the others — that it was painful, however that they don’t hate him.
“The same way you wrote your book about your experiences doesn’t mean that they’re negative. They’re just experiences,” Fishel chimed in. “So you don’t listen to the podcast regularly, but your overall opinion of it is that we are negative about Michael and Ben and the show.”
“Let’s be honest about this,” Ward insisted. “You’re trying to go at me now to get the ratings because you know that people will be interested. I just wanted to remember the good times.”
Maitland Ward attends the 2024 Grownup Video Information Awards at Resorts World Las Vegas on January 27, 2024. (Photograph Credit score: Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures)
‘You want to drag our names through the mud’
Fishel fired again: “I’m not the one who wanted to go for ratings … This is what you asked for.” She additionally stated Ward desires to be optimistic now however in different press, “that’s the time when you want to drag our names through the mud.”
Nonetheless, Danielle Fishel emphasised that she doesn’t hate Maitland Ward, regardless of some clear points. “Similarly to the way she decided when ‘Girl Meets World’ and all that stuff was in the press, that that was an opportunity for her to make a name for herself in cosplay play and in role-playing.”
Fishel accused: “She felt like this was an opportunity for her to get press by having conflict, which I am just not your girl to do that. And she thought it was disingenuous for me to reach out to her. I think wanting to do it for stats is disingenuous.”
