Boy Meets World stars Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle have had disturbing interactions with fans via email
boy meets world is a show loved by many, and while the cast rose to fame before the rise of social media, they still had interactions with fans that crossed the line. In a recent episode of their podcast, Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle shared their troubling experiences with fans crossing a line along the way boy meets worldis heyday. Also, Rider Strong spoke about the lesson Ben Savage taught him when it came to interacting with fans.
Danielle Fishel had a pen pal while working on Boy Meets World
In the episode “Q&A Meets World Part 1,” Fishel spoke of a pen pal she had when she was younger. “I got a letter from a young girl in 1993 and she included pictures of herself and she was doing gymnastics,” Fishel explained. She immediately felt connected to this fan because she also did gymnastics.
“She wrote me this handwritten letter saying she’s a fan and I texted her back,” Fishel continued. “Then she sent me another letter and we started this correspondence back and forth. I felt very close to her.”
As the boy meets world Star recalls that her pen pal’s parents died when she was young. She lived with her older brother and even sent photos so Fishel knew what her brother looked like. “Her brother was a few years older,” Fishel added.
In one of the letters, Fishel’s pen pal included her phone number. So she called.
‘Boy Meets World’ star fished out by pen pal
Fishel’s pen pal didn’t answer when she called — she got a voicemail in her brother’s voice. At first, this was not a cause for concern, since Fishel knew that the girl lived with her brother. However, the girl’s name was never mentioned in the voicemail, which was strange.
Despite this, Fishel kept in touch with her pen pal — her mother was involved in her correspondence at all times. Eventually, however, the truth came out.
“It was a guy all along,” Fishel explained on the podcast. “I kept calling her and leaving my phone number and she never called me back. Then we got a letter from her brother saying she had died.” Later, the man who was in charge of the letters showed up at Fishel’s school and told the teachers he was there to pick her up. Thankfully, Fishel never made physical contact with the man.
Will Friedle was invited to a fake wedding by a fan who was willing to leave her husband and children
Fishel’s experience was extreme, but Friedle also had an experience with an extreme fan. “My weirdest thing I’ve ever had… [this fan] sent a wedding invitation with both of our names on it [and] time and place [of the wedding]’ Friedle said. The invitation included a letter that said, “I am married now, I have two children, but if you are at this church for our wedding, I will marry you and leave my family.”
Of course Friedle left the fan at the altar. He has been married to Susan Martens since 2016.
“99.9% of fans are incredibly respectful [and] really nice,” he concluded. “But you’re worried about the 0.01%.”
Ben Savage taught Rider Strong how to properly interact with fans
Like Fishel and Friedle, Strong also had memories of fans ignoring boundaries and calling his home number. He also recalled a time when he was “in one of the early malls.” [Los Angeles]” with his boy meets world co-star Savage. “He was recognized and I really learned how to handle that moment from him,” Strong said.
“He was so confident and so kind and grateful and signed what these kids wanted. I remember watching him and thinking, ‘Oh, that’s how you do it.’
Rider Strong, “Pod Meets World”
Strong used to “put no boundaries” when recognized because he looked forward to being noticed. But seeing Savage create that frontier inspired him to do the same.
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