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 Sturdy to reminisce about her character Rachael McGuire for the podcast’s newest episode, however what began as a pleasant catchup rapidly 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 a little bit — I will not say shaken up or something, I am simply stunned by the entire scenario, and I’ve had a little bit time to replicate on it since I did the present per week and a half go,” Ward started. “It simply felt uneasy to have folks that you just known as associates — particularly prior to now, I believed Danielle was my pal — I can see that she didn’t like me, and he or she has harbored not liking me by the years, however it’s unhappy to me too.”

Whereas Fishel accused Ward of coming onto the present simply to drum up rankings, Ward informed TooFab that she on no account got here on to trigger any form 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 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 a little bit damage by Will in the way in which 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 concerning the present and stuff,” she defined. “I believed like every issues we had, we might discuss in a conversational manner, so I wasn’t anticipating such a jarring shift. It was like, swiftly she was Topanga after which she switched into Regina George.”

Ward continued, “It is simply actually hurtful to return on a present and with folks you’ve got identified, 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 associates 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 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 stated the 2 may discuss issues out the podcast, including it could “rock the stats.”

However when all that was introduced up on the podcast, Ward stated thinks acquired 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 finished it inside 10 years? Sure, in all probability, however it was in all probability 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 in all probability 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 finished nothing through the years — and I am speaking about years 20 years, nevertheless lengthy it has been — however be good to her, and he or she even insinuated that me inviting her to my marriage 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 could’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 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 towards Michael Jacobs and Ben they usually know that I’m on good phrases with each of them, and truly, I had issues with Michael and Disney, again within the day, and I would 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 a protracted dialog, and we actually talked about issues, and I actually admire that, and I believe that that meant a lot to it, and we’re in such a very good 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 believe we actually got here to a information about, hear, the late 90s and early 2000s had been a horrible time for ladies in Hollywood. It was the mindset of the time.”

“I do not assume that they got here to me in that form of place,” she stated of Fishel, Friedle and Sturdy. “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.”

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 folks thought I used to be making up, or exaggerating the truth that she did not like me. I believe it is form 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 finished a special manner on the podcast. I want it could’ve been be finished in a extra conversational, respectful manner 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 towards me” — including that she will be able to 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 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 Lady Meets World, and and I didn’t notice the depths of that, so I really feel unhealthy 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 excellent in any respect, however I’d 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 Sturdy because the 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’d 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 manner,” Ward shared. “There are huge issues on the planet, and we had been we had been discussing at size whether or not or not she unfriended me on Fb. These had been form of petty issues in loads of methods, however I believe we will have a deeper dialog.”

“And particularly, I would like to listen to Will’s perspective too, as a result of that was that essentially 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.