Maitland Ward Dishes On Which 'Boy Meets World' Stars Supported Her Porn Career
By Kristin Myers on October 13, 2022 at 8:45 AM EDT
Actress Maitland Ward first rose to fame for her role in the ABC sitcom, “Boy Meets World,” which ran from September 1993 to May 2000.
Over time, Ward, who played Rachel McGuire on the seven-season series, began to transition her career into adult entertainment and now makes a sizeable income from her OnlyFans page.
In a recent interview, Ward revealed which of her former sitcom stars have shown their support for her porn career and who has not.
Maitland Ward Reveals Which ‘Boy Meets World’ Costar Supports Her Porn Career… But Won’t Watch Anything She Does!
On Monday, Ward appeared on the “Skinny Confidential Him & Her” podcast (via Page Six). In the interview, the 45-year-old model said that she has heard from three of her former sitcom stars while she was an up-and-coming figure in the adult entertainment industry.
She said that Trina McGee, who played Angela Moore on the show, supported her “in the beginning.” She said that Will Freidle, who played Eric Matthews on the show and the “Girl Meets World” spin-off “contacted” her after her porn career started to take off.
“[He] says he supports me, but won’t watch anything that I do,” Ward said, adding that show creator Michael Jacobs also supported her career switch.
“But the rest, I have not heard from them,” Ward continued. “I haven’t heard like, ‘Oh, you’re terrible.’” However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t hard feelings. Ward added, “But I kind of felt like I was just gone from them. Like, ‘We don’t want anything to do with you anymore.'”
Ward Said That Dannielle Fishel ‘Barely Acknowledged’ Her At A Party
In September, Maitland Ward released her memoir, “Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me From Hollywood.” In the tell-all book, Ward recalled running into Danielle Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence on the show, at a party.
Ward claimed that “Danielle didn’t speak to me at all, which I thought was odd.” She added that Danielle “barely acknowledged that I was even there.”
Ward admitted that the last time she had seen Danielle in person was when she attended Ward’s wedding to husband Terry Baxter in 2006. However, Ward said, “we hadn’t had any ill feelings or bad blood.”
Elsewhere in the interview, she credited her husband for convincing her to film pornographic scenes with other men, as she had gotten her start in the industry performing exclusively with other women.
Ward Says Her Husband Convinced Her To Film Pornographic Scenes With Other Men!
“[My husband] really was the one that came and, out of the blue to me, he said, ‘I see this in you. You really need to try this. You really wanna live out these fantasies,’” Maitland Ward wrote in her memoir, adding that her husband was by her side the first time she filmed a sex scene with another man.
“At the end of it, the first one we did, nothing bad had happened. It was a controlled situation,” she explained. “I got to live out a fantasy, then it was done and we went back to our lives. So I really think that it solidified our trust in each other and also his faith in me.”
The AVN Award winner said that it has made their relationship “stronger,” adding, “So many men especially, women too, are very jealous and want to keep their partner in a box. And he knows that I had been in a box for so long in Hollywood.”
“[My husband] really saw that if he held me back from any of this, he would be the one now keeping me in a box. And he knew how much that bothered me and how hard that was for so many years for me,” Ward continued. “I was finally emerging and I was having fun and I was successful, so he didn’t want to stop my trajectory. And I mean, hey, it went better than I could ever have imagined.”
