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Maitland Ward and Danielle Fishel Feud Reaches Boiling Level in Tense Podcast Argument
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February 25, 2025 | by ltcinsuranceshopper
Maitland Ward continues to be longing for a decision following her rocky look on the the Boy Meets World rewatch podcast, Pod Meets World.
Ward sat down with Danielle Fishel and her co-hosts Will Friedle and Rider Robust to reminisce about her character Rachael McGuire for the podcast’s newest episode, however what began as a pleasant catchup shortly took a flip when Fishel questioned why Ward “hates” her former castmates.
TooFab spoke with Ward on Monday, after the episode dropped, the place she shared extra of her aspect of the story and dished on what she thinks went incorrect.
“I am a little bit — I will not say shaken up or something, I am simply stunned by the entire state of affairs, and I’ve had a little bit time to replicate on it since I did the present every week and a half go,” Ward started. “It simply felt uneasy to have individuals that you just known as pals — particularly up to now, I believed Danielle was my pal — I can see that she didn’t like me, and she or he has harbored not liking me by means of the years, nevertheless it’s unhappy to me too.”
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Whereas Fishel accused Ward of coming onto the present simply to drum up scores, Ward instructed TooFab that she on no account got here on to trigger any sort of controversy.
“Let me I simply wanna say I didn’t come on that present to create controversy and to drum something up at the moment,” Ward maintained, “And I believe followers can see that. The primary a part of the present was very pleasant, that is why it was such a bizarre swap on the finish.”
Ward stated whereas she’s damage by the feedback Fishel made, she’s equally stunned by Friedle, who she’s had a longstanding friendship with within the years since she joined the present in season 6, and for the reason that pair reunited on Woman Meets World in 2015.
“I am a little bit damage by Will in the way in which that he offered it to me that it was gonna be enjoyable, individuals have been trying ahead to it, and we have been simply gonna you discuss it out — not even discuss it out, simply have conversations concerning the present and stuff,” she defined. “I believed like several issues we had, we’d discuss in a conversational means, so I wasn’t anticipating such a jarring shift. It was like, unexpectedly she was Topanga after which she switched into Regina George.”
Ward continued, “It is simply actually hurtful to return on a present and with individuals you’ve got recognized, nearly your complete life, after which she proceeded to ask me, ‘Did I hate them,’ and I say, ‘No, you hate me.’”
The saga behind the ladies questioning whether or not they like each other or not began again in 2013, when Ward despatched a message to Fishel on Fb, solely to later understand they have been now not pals on the platform.
For her half, Fishel stated she did not even see the message till 2022, as she barely checks in on or makes use of her Fb account. It was at the moment that Friedle shared that he’d spoken to Ward about presumably having her as a visitor on their new podcast.
It was throughout that dialogue that Friedle clued Fishel in that she’d left Ward hanging for almost a decade, which led Fishel to ask Friedle if he may attempt to get Ward’s quantity so she may attain out. Ward allegedly stated the 2 may discuss issues out the podcast, including it will “rock the stats.”
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However when all that was introduced up on the podcast, Ward stated thinks bought a little bit murky.
“She tells me the entire like battle concerning the Fb friending back-and-forth like, ‘Did you unfriend her?’ She did. Then goes, ‘May I’ve performed it inside 10 years? Sure, most likely, nevertheless it was most likely a part of like a gaggle rubbish dump,’ in order that’s nice,” stated Ward, “after which after that the letter that I despatched her, ‘Oh, it is most likely caught in my rubbish someplace within the Fb universe,’ and I am like, OK effectively that makes me really feel actually nice that that is the way you’re approaching to inform me this … principally you hate me greater than I even realized.”
“And it is unhappy, as a result of I’ve performed nothing through the years — and I am speaking about years 20 years, nonetheless lengthy it has been — however be good to her, and she or he even insinuated that me inviting her to my wedding ceremony was out of the blue, and like I used to be making an attempt to do one thing about that. This was 18 years in the past, and I actually genuinely favored her and needed her to return to the marriage,” Ward continued.
“It is simply disheartening in some ways as a result of I want it will’ve been a time the place we may’ve talked about it and simply had a pleasant dialog,” Ward added.
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As for the claims Ward made relating to Boy Meets World star, Ben Savage and present creator Michael Jacobs, Wards sticks by her perception that a few of Fishel’s animosity in direction of her comes from her repairing her relationship with the latter.
“I do know they’re at all times in opposition to Michael Jacobs and Ben and so they know that I’m on good phrases with each of them, and really, I had issues with Michael and Disney, again within the day, and I might written about it in my guide and talked about it,” Ward recalled. “And after my guide was out, Michael got here to me and we had an extended dialog, and we actually talked about issues, and I actually respect that, and I believe that that meant a lot to it, and we’re in such place now due to that, and we continued to have an open dialog about each of what we have been feeling, and what was occurring on the time.”
She continued, “And I believe we actually got here to a data about, pay attention, the late 90s and early 2000s have been a horrible time for girls in Hollywood. It was the mindset of the time.”
“I do not assume that they got here to me in that sort of place,” she stated of Fishel, Friedle and Robust. “After which accusing me of making an attempt to return on the present, stir issues up … I believe it was disingenuous of them for two-and-a-half years in the past, for Will to return to me, and say, ‘Hey, will you be in our press launch after we’re launching the podcast? We actually need you to be a part of the preliminary launch,’ after which it is two-and-a-half years later till they make an overture for me to return on.”
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Whereas the dialog did not precisely go as she would’ve hoped, Ward — who has since transitioned to a profession within the grownup movie trade — stated she’s nonetheless glad she was capable of clear the air for the BMW followers.
“I am glad that I’m able to clear the air for the followers. I believe individuals thought I used to be making up, or exaggerating the truth that she did not like me. I believe it is sort of demonstrated now that there is one thing there that she would not like about me,” Ward maintained. “And I want we may discuss additional about it. I am very open to speaking additional about it along with her. However I want it was performed a distinct means on the podcast. I want it will’ve been be performed in a extra conversational, respectful means to one another. It was out of nowhere.”
As for why Fishel approached her in the way in which that she did, Ward stated she thinks it is as a result of her former costar has been “harboring some stuff in opposition to me” — including that she will be able to nearly pinpoint it the discharge of her 2022 memoir, My Escape from Hollywood: Unapologetic, Unfiltered, and Unashamed, the place she first made the declare that Fishel did not like her.
“I did not even understand how deep it was, however I at all times may inform that she did not like me. And I do know she was in a nasty place on the time of Woman Meets World, and and I didn’t understand the depths of that, so I really feel dangerous about that, however I do not know the place she’s coming [from], as a result of I wasn’t gonna come on the present and try this. I wasn’t gonna come cost at her,” she added. “I do issues incorrect too in relationships and friendships, I am not saying that I am excellent in any respect, however I might by no means have gone at her like that, by no means in public like that.”
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And although Ward tells TooFab she hasn’t been contacted by Fishel, Friedle or Robust for the reason that recording, she would take up the group’s supply to return to the podcast and discover some resolve within the matter.
“I’m not a coward about this stuff and I might do it. I positively assume there’s extra to be stated on the matter, and I believe it needs to be approached in a extra grownup means,” Ward shared. “There are massive issues on the earth, and we have been we have been discussing at size whether or not or not she unfriended me on Fb. These have been sort of petty issues in a variety of methods, however I believe we are able to have a deeper dialog.”
“And particularly, I might like to listen to Will’s viewpoint too, as a result of that was that probably the most personally hurtful, ‘trigger I did not see that coming, that he knew about it or something,” she added.
TooFab has reached out to Fishel for remark.
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