Overview
- Cast members Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle say their communication with Ben Savage declined after they launched the Pod Meets World rewatch podcast in June 2022 and later stopped entirely.
- The documentary Doc Meets World, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, shows texts, missed calls and on-camera accounts the trio says document years of unanswered messages and blocked numbers.
- Will Friedle says he repeatedly called and texted Savage, including a message shown in the film saying he would call every day until Savage picked up or asked him to stop.
- Ben Savage has not offered a direct public explanation for the reported estrangement and posted photos with his infant daughter on Instagram on June 15 with the caption “Good company.”
- Longtime cast members emphasize a mostly positive workplace history on Boy Meets World and say they have left the door open for Savage to rejoin conversations or projects in the future.