Boy Meets World alums Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle are closer than ever — but they can’t say the same for their relationships with former costar Ben Savage. “He disappeared — I wish I knew why, to this day,” Friedle, 46, told Variety in an interview published on Wednesday, June 28. “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.’” Friedle — who portrayed Eric Matthews, the older brother of Savage’s Cory Matthews, on the beloved sitcom – shared that he “finally sent a text saying, ‘I’ve known you for 30 years, what’s going on?
I’m gonna call you every day until you tell me not to call you anymore.’” However, Friedle gave up after “a month” of not hearing back. “I’ve known him since he was 11 years old, and we have a shared history.
And we were doing these conventions together, and we were getting to know each other as adults, and then he just kind of went, ‘I’m done with you,’” he added, noting that their estrangement is a “sore subject” to discuss. “I tried and tried and tried for months, until finally my wife was like, ‘Why are you doing this to yourself?
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