After reflecting on her recent heated exchange with former “Boy Meets World” co-star Danielle Fishel, Maitland Ward has some thoughts.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Ward – who portrayed Rachel McQuire in the later seasons of the beloved ’90s TV show – opened up about the “very toxic” situation she found herself in while appearing on the “Pod Meets World” podcast on Monday.
“I never expected the turn it was going to take, ever,” said Ward, who was bluntly asked by Fishel if she hated her former co-stars during the episode. “And I was not going to come in there and start going at Danielle or start rehashing things like she said that I was plotting to do because you can see I was just sitting there, and all of a sudden she just flips.”
“I did not create the conflict on that show,” she told Fox News Digital. “I was not trying to create conflict. And I think it’s funny that she says I tried to create the conflict from it, to get press when she tried to create the conflict for this show to get press and views and listens and everything for the podcast.”
“I wasn’t going to benefit financially from that show,” she added. “So I think she’s very two-faced in that situation. I think she doesn’t enjoy that I have had success from ‘Boy Meets World’ like that. And I think she should be reminded that I get attention for other things that I do too.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to reps for Fishel, Strong and Friedle for comment.
Despite the heated back-and-forth, Ward said she wouldn’t be opposed to returning to the podcast to discuss everything in a productive manner.
“I’m not a coward to that,” she said. “I will come back and do it, but it needs to be done in a more positive way I guess.”
“I just wish we would’ve been able to talk it out in a way that was, in a way that the audience could have been brought in and have it be a positive situation where we could have learned from each other and the audience could have grown with us in that situation,” she added. “It should have been that.”
Christina Dugan Ramirez is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital.
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