Maitland Ward ‘Uneasy’ After ‘Jarring’ Pod Meets World Confrontation With Danielle Fishel (Unique)

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 facet of the story and dished on what she thinks went fallacious.

“I am slightly — I will not say shaken up or something, I am simply shocked by the entire state of affairs, and I’ve had slightly time to mirror on it since I did the present every week and a half go,” Ward started. “It simply felt uneasy to have folks that you just referred to as buddies — particularly prior to now, I believed Danielle was my buddy — I can see that she didn’t like me, and she or he has harbored not liking me by way of the years, but it surely’s unhappy to me too.”

Whereas Fishel accused Ward of coming onto the present simply to drum up scores, Ward advised TooFab that she under no circumstances got here on to trigger any type 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 feel followers can see that. The primary a part of the present was very pleasant, that is why it was such a bizarre change on the finish.”

Ward mentioned whereas she’s damage by the feedback Fishel made, she’s equally bowled over by Friedle, who she’s had a longstanding friendship with within the years since she joined the present in season 6, and because the pair reunited on Lady Meets World in 2015.

“I am slightly damage by Will in the best way that he offered it to me that it was gonna be enjoyable, folks had been wanting ahead to it, and we had been simply gonna you discuss it out — not even discuss it out, simply have conversations in regards to the present and stuff,” she defined. “I believed like every issues we had, we’d discuss in a conversational method, 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 come back on a present and with folks you have recognized, virtually 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 notice they had been now not buddies on the platform.

For her half, Fishel mentioned 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 probably 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 practically a decade, which led Fishel to ask Friedle if he may attempt to get Ward’s quantity so she may attain out. Ward allegedly mentioned the 2 may discuss issues out the podcast, including it will “rock the stats.”

However when all that was introduced up on the podcast, Ward mentioned thinks acquired slightly murky.

“She tells me the entire like battle in regards to the Fb friending back-and-forth like, ‘Did you unfriend her?’ She did. Then goes, ‘May I’ve achieved it inside 10 years? Sure, most likely, but it surely was most likely a part of like a gaggle rubbish dump,’ in order that’s nice,” mentioned 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 properly 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 achieved nothing over time — 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 attempting to do one thing about that. This was 18 years in the past, and I actually genuinely favored her and wished her to come back 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.

As for the claims Ward made concerning Boy Meets World star, Ben Savage and present creator Michael Jacobs, Wards sticks by her perception that a few of Fishel’s animosity in the direction of her comes from her repairing her relationship with the latter.

“I do know they’re all the time in opposition to Michael Jacobs and Ben they usually 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 e-book and talked about it,” Ward recalled. “And after my e-book was out, Michael got here to me and we had an extended dialog, and we actually talked about issues, and I actually admire that, and I feel that that meant a lot to it, and we’re in such a great place now due to that, and we continued to have an open dialog about each of what we had been feeling, and what was happening on the time.”

She continued, “And I feel we actually got here to a data about, hear, the late 90s and early 2000s had 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 type of place,” she mentioned of Fishel, Friedle and Robust. “After which accusing me of attempting to come back on the present, stir issues up … I feel it was disingenuous of them for two-and-a-half years in the past, for Will to come back to me, and say, ‘Hey, will you be in our press launch once 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 come back on.”

Whereas the dialog did not precisely go as she would’ve hoped, Ward — who has since transitioned to a profession within the grownup movie business — mentioned she’s nonetheless glad she was in a position to clear the air for the BMW followers.

“I am glad that I’m able to clear the air for the followers. I feel folks thought I used to be making up, or exaggerating the truth that she did not like me. I feel it is type 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 together with her. However I want it was achieved a special method on the podcast. I want it will’ve been be achieved in a extra conversational, respectful method to one another. It was out of nowhere.”

As for why Fishel approached her in the best way that she did, Ward mentioned she thinks it is as a result of her former costar has been “harboring some stuff in opposition to me” — including that she will virtually 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 notice how deep it was, however I all the time may inform that she did not like me. And I do know she was in a nasty place on the time of Lady Meets World, and and I didn’t notice 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 fallacious too in relationships and friendships, I am not saying that I am good in any respect, however I might by no means have gone at her like that, by no means in public like that.”

And although Ward tells TooFab she hasn’t been contacted by Fishel, Friedle or Robust because the recording, she would take up the group’s provide 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 undoubtedly assume there’s extra to be mentioned on the matter, and I feel it must be approached in a extra grownup method,” Ward shared. “There are large issues on this planet, and we had been we had been discussing at size whether or not or not she unfriended me on Fb. These had been type of petty issues in plenty of methods, however I feel 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.