‘Boy Meets World’ cast reveals Ben Savage ‘ghosted’ them for three years

Boy Meets World alums, Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle, revealed that their former co-star has not spoken to them in the past three years, despite being friends for the last 30 years.

The three actors — who played Topanga, Eric and Shawn, respectively, for all seven seasons on the hit ABC sitcom from 1993 to 2000, touched up on their friendship with Savage in a profile by Variety.

The three actors, who currently host Pod Meets World together, a rewatch podcast in which they watch the sitcom for the first time, which was launched in June.

They shared that they were perplexed about the estrangement with the 42-year-old actor, who played Cory Matthews. Variety noted that the trio has not heard from Savage, who recently announced a run for Congress.

The years that followed after the wrap of the spinoff series, Girl Meets World, included more cast reunions at fan conventions — and that group included Savage. However, when the threesome began talking about the idea of doing a podcast, he wasn’t interested.

“He was very adamant that it was not for him,” Fishel revealed. “He was also very clear, ‘I don’t want it to stop you. If you guys want to do it, go ahead.’ The time between those conversations and the time we actually started the podcast was a significant amount of time.”

“He just kind of disappeared from our lives,” she said of Savage who was with her during her son’s early birth in June 2019.

“We were just so, so close, especially during that time. He was checking in with me regularly,” she recalled. “He ghosted us.”

Friedle, who played Savage’s older brother has known Savage since he was 11 and is just baffled, to say the least. “He disappeared — I wish I knew why, to this day,” he said. “We didn’t have a fight. There’s no falling out. There was no animosity. He just woke up one day, and decided I don’t want this person in my life anymore.”

“I finally sent a text saying, ‘I’ve known you for 30 years, what’s going on?'” Friedle continued. “I said, ‘I’m gonna call you every day until you tell me not to call you anymore.’ That lasted about three weeks or a month, every single day.”

He then added, “I tried and tried and tried for months, until finally my wife was like, ‘Why are you doing this to yourself? He obviously doesn’t want you in his life.’”

However, Fishel shared, “Speaking for myself, Ben and I may be estranged right now and we may have our complaints about each other, but I will always love Ben and want what’s best for him. I don’t think this is the end of our story — but time will tell.”