Ward sat down with Danielle Fishel and her co-hosts Will Friedle and Rider Strong to reminisce about her character Rachael McGuire for the podcast’s latest episode, nevertheless what started as a pleasing 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 additional of her facet of the story and dished on what she thinks went incorrect.

“I’m a little bit bit — I can’t say shaken up or one thing, I’m merely shocked by all the state of affairs, and I’ve had a little bit bit time to copy on it since I did the current each week and a half go,” Ward began. “It merely felt uneasy to have people that you just simply often known as friends — notably to this point, 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 way of the years, however it’s sad to me too.”

Whereas Fishel accused Ward of coming onto the current merely to drum up scores, Ward instructed TooFab that she in no way received right here on to set off any kind of controversy.

“Let me I merely wanna say I didn’t come on that current to create controversy and to drum one thing up in the intervening time,” Ward maintained, “And I consider followers can see that. The first part of the current was very nice, that’s the reason it was such a weird swap on the end.”

Ward said whereas she’s harm by the suggestions Fishel made, she’s equally shocked by Friedle, who she’s had a longstanding friendship with inside the years since she joined the current in season 6, and given that pair reunited on Girl Meets World in 2015.

“I’m a little bit bit harm by Will in the best way wherein that he provided it to me that it was gonna be pleasant, people have been making an attempt forward to it, and we’ve got been merely gonna you focus on it out — not even focus on it out, merely have conversations regarding the current and stuff,” she outlined. “I believed like a number of points we had, we’d focus on 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’s merely truly hurtful to return on a gift and with people you’ve received acknowledged, almost your full life, after which she proceeded to ask me, ‘Did I hate them,’ and I say, ‘No, you hate me.’”

The saga behind the women questioning whether or not or not they like one another or not started once more in 2013, when Ward despatched a message to Fishel on Fb, solely to later perceive they’ve been not friends on the platform.

For her half, Fishel said she didn’t even see the message until 2022, as she barely checks in on or makes use of her Fb account. It was in the intervening time that Friedle shared that he’d spoken to Ward about presumably having her as a customer on their new podcast.

It was all through that dialogue that Friedle clued Fishel in that she’d left Ward hanging for nearly a decade, which led Fishel to ask Friedle if he might try and get Ward’s amount so she might attain out. Ward allegedly said the two might focus on points out the podcast, together with it’ll “rock the stats.”

Nevertheless when all that was launched up on the podcast, Ward said thinks purchased a little bit bit murky.

“She tells me all the like battle regarding the Fb friending back-and-forth like, ‘Did you unfriend her?’ She did. Then goes, ‘Could I’ve carried out it inside 10 years? Certain, almost definitely, however it was almost definitely part of like a gaggle garbage dump,’ so that’s good,” said Ward, “after which after that the letter that I despatched her, ‘Oh, it’s almost definitely caught in my garbage someplace inside the Fb universe,’ and I’m like, OK successfully that makes me actually really feel truly good that that’s the method you’re approaching to tell me this … principally you hate me larger than I even realized.”

“And it’s sad, because of I’ve carried out nothing via the years — and I’m talking about years 20 years, nonetheless prolonged it has been — nevertheless be good to her, and he or she even insinuated that me inviting her to my marriage ceremony ceremony was out of the blue, and like I was attempting to do one factor about that. This was 18 years prior to now, and I truly genuinely favored her and wanted her to return to the wedding,” Ward continued.

“It’s merely disheartening in some methods because of I need it’ll’ve been a time the place we might’ve talked about it and easily had a pleasing dialog,” Ward added.

As for the claims Ward made referring to Boy Meets World star, Ben Savage and current creator Michael Jacobs, Wards sticks by her notion that just a few of Fishel’s animosity in path of her comes from her repairing her relationship with the latter.

“I do know they’re always in opposition to Michael Jacobs and Ben and they also know that I’m on good phrases with every of them, and actually, I had points with Michael and Disney, once more inside the day, and I would written about it in my information and talked about it,” Ward recalled. “And after my information was out, Michael received right here to me and we had an prolonged dialog, and we truly talked about points, and I truly respect that, and I consider that that meant loads to it, and we’re in such place now on account of that, and we continued to have an open dialog about every of what we’ve got been feeling, and what was occurring on the time.”

She continued, “And I consider we truly received right here to a knowledge about, listen, the late 90s and early 2000s have been a horrible time for women in Hollywood. It was the mindset of the time.”

“I don’t assume that they received right here to me in that kind of place,” she said of Fishel, Friedle and Strong. “After which accusing me of attempting to return on the current, stir points up … I consider it was disingenuous of them for two-and-a-half years prior to now, for Will to return to me, and say, ‘Hey, will you be in our press launch after we’re launching the podcast? We really need you to be part of the preliminary launch,’ after which it’s two-and-a-half years later until they make an overture for me to return on.”

Whereas the dialog didn’t exactly go as she would’ve hoped, Ward — who has since transitioned to a occupation inside the grownup film commerce — said she’s nonetheless glad she was able to clear the air for the BMW followers.

“I’m glad that I’m capable of clear the air for the followers. I consider people thought I was making up, or exaggerating the reality that she didn’t like me. I consider it’s kind of demonstrated now that there’s one factor there that she wouldn’t like about me,” Ward maintained. “And I need we might focus on further about it. I’m very open to talking further about it alongside along with her. Nevertheless I need it was carried out a definite means on the podcast. I need it’ll’ve been be carried out in a additional conversational, respectful means to 1 one other. It was out of nowhere.”

As for why Fishel approached her in the best way wherein that she did, Ward said she thinks it’s because of her former costar has been “harboring some stuff in opposition to me” — together with that she is going to be capable to almost 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 didn’t like her.

“I didn’t even perceive how deep it was, nevertheless I always might inform that she didn’t like me. And I do know she was in a nasty place on the time of Girl Meets World, and and I didn’t perceive the depths of that, so I actually really feel harmful about that, nevertheless I have no idea the place she’s coming [from], because of I wasn’t gonna come on the current and do that. I wasn’t gonna come price at her,” she added. “I do points incorrect too in relationships and friendships, I’m not saying that I’m wonderful the least bit, nevertheless I would on no account have gone at her like that, on no account in public like that.”

And though Ward tells TooFab she hasn’t been contacted by Fishel, Friedle or Strong given that recording, she would take up the group’s provide to return to the podcast and uncover some resolve inside the matter.

“I’m not a coward about these things and I would do it. I positively assume there’s additional to be said on the matter, and I consider it must be approached in a additional grownup means,” Ward shared. “There are huge points on the earth, and we’ve got been we’ve got been discussing at dimension whether or not or not or not she unfriended me on Fb. These have been kind of petty points in quite a lot of strategies, nevertheless I consider we’re capable of have a deeper dialog.”

“And notably, I would wish to take heed to Will’s viewpoint too, because of that was that most likely essentially the most personally hurtful, ‘set off I didn’t see that coming, that he knew about it or one thing,” she added.

TooFab has reached out to Fishel for comment.