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The Boy Meets World cast had some unresolved drama that led to a heated argument on the most recent episode of the stars' rewatch podcast.
Former cast member Maitland Ward appeared as a guest on the Sunday, February 23 episode of the Pod Meets World podcast — hosted by Boy Meets World stars Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, and Will Friedle — and she and Fishel aired out their grievances with each other.
Ward joined the cast in the sixth season of the hit sitcom as Rachel, Eric (Friedle) and Jack (Matthew Lawrence)'s roommate. On the podcast episode, Ward claimed that Fishel, now 43, was not friendly towards her on set in the late '90s.
Fishel did not hold back, asking Ward, "Do you hate us?"
Ward, 48, responded, "No, I don't hate you. I think that you hate me, because you wouldn't speak to me, on when we would go to Girl Meets World, and everything. And that was hurtful."
Girl Meets World was a spinoff that aired on Disney Channel and featured many retuning cast members from the original series, including Fishel. Ward — who has found success in the adult film industry — never appeared on the spinoff series. Instead, she just visited the set.
The two then got into it about a Facebook message that Ward sent Fishel in 2013, which she didn't respond to. Ward claims Fishel "unfriended" her on Facebook, but Fishel said she doesn't understand how to use the social media platform. Fishel explained that after finding Ward's message, she asked Friedle for her contact information.
"I said to Will, will you please ask her if I could have her phone number so that I could apologize to her?" Fishel recounted. "And you wrote back to Will 'No, let's just save it for the podcast. It'll be great for the ratings.'"
Ward clarified it wasn't about the ratings. Instead, it was about giving them something to talk about, and she thought she would get a chance to come on the podcast much sooner.
However, Fishel came with receipts, saying, "I believe the official quote was 'Rock the stats.'"
After lots of back-and-forth arguing, Ward said, "I just want to remember good times," to which Fishel clapped back, "Oh, now you only wanna talk about the good times, but when TMZ runs into you randomly on the street, that's the time when you wanna drag our names through the mud. But now it should all be about good times."
Ward expressed that she felt Fishel's actions were "disingenuous" multiple times. She also said it was "negative" how the three podcasters talked about the show's creator, Michael Jacobs, and alum Ben Savage, with whom they no longer have contact.
While the argument went on, it ended on a positive note, with Fishel saying, "It was nice to talk to you, reminisce, share some good times, share some not-so-good times."
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