Boy Meets World Cast Still Not Speaking After Podcast Blowup

When Maitland Ward sat down for“Pod Meets World,”she probably hoped for a nostalgic trip down memory lane with her Boy Meets World family. Instead, the conversation became a masterclass in unresolved tension, and now—nearly a year later—things still haven’t improved.

In a Monday, May 18 interview with Fox News Digital, the 49-year-old actress confirmed what many already suspected: there’s been zero contact between her and her former costars Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and Rider Strong.“We have not spoken at all,”Ward said flatly.“There’s been no contact.”She did attempt to reach out to Fishel when the actress competed on Dancing With the Stars season 34, and Ward insists there’s no active animosity—just an uncomfortable void where friendship used to be.

But the real story here is what led to this silence. During her podcast appearance, things got heated when Fishel asked if Ward hated them. Ward flipped the script, claiming it was the opposite: she believed Fishel harbored resentment toward her, particularly about Ward’s lack of inclusion when Fishel appeared on Girl Meets World as both an actress and coproducer. The conversation spiraled from there. Fishel denied unfriending Ward on Facebook (though she admitted not being active on the platform), while also revealing she’d asked Will Friedle to get Ward’s phone number so she could apologize—a request Ward allegedly declined, suggesting instead they hash it out on the podcast for the ratings.

Ward disputed that characterization, but the damage was already done. In a February 2025 interview with TooFab, Ward reflected on the awkwardness of seeing people she’d considered friends display what she perceived as harbored resentment over the years.“I thought Danielle was my friend—I can see that she did not like me,”Ward said, adding that she never understood what sparked the divide in the first place.

The most telling detail? Fishel hasn’t addressed any of Ward’s remarks since the podcast dropped. No clarification, no follow-up, nothing. Just silence—the kind that says more than any words could. What started as a chance to reconnect became a very public unraveling of a relationship that apparently fractured long ago, leaving all parties disappointed and, it seems, resigned to staying disconnected.