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Danielle Fishel Says Setting Boundaries on Girl Meets World Made Her ‘Difficult’
Danielle Fishel says she was disliked on the Girl Meets World set after returning to television as an adult.
She and Ben Savage were guaranteed the same salary as partners on the Disney Channel show.
Fishel says she asked coworkers not to hug her, and that setting this boundary led some to call her difficult.
During the show's second season, she says she was told that executive producer Michael Jacobs had called her “crazy” to others on set.
She also challenged storylines she felt were unsuitable for the show's young audience, and says some of her objections worked.
Fishel recounts these experiences in a new book, which is due on shelves Nov.
10.
Danielle Fishel says setting personal boundaries on the set of Girl Meets World led some colleagues to regard her as “difficult.”
In an excerpt from Book Meets World, she says she asked coworkers not to hug her and knew they were uncomfortable around her.
Fishel says that during the show’s second season, she was told that producer Michael Jacobs had called her “crazy” to others on set.
She also says she pushed back on storylines she thought were not appropriate for the Disney Channel audience.
- Who
- Danielle Fishel, an actor on Girl Meets World, and people she describes as colleagues on the set.
- What
- Fishel says her boundaries, including asking coworkers not to hug her, made her seem “difficult.
- When
- During the production of Girl Meets World; she says she learned of Jacobs’s comment during season 2.
- Where
- On the set of Girl Meets World.
- Why
- Fishel says she had changed and wanted to set personal boundaries and raise concerns about storylines.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Fishel returned to television on the spinoff Girl Meets World 14 years later.
At age 32, Fishel began asking coworkers to respect her boundaries, including not hugging her.
Fishel says she was told that Jacobs had called her “crazy” to others on set.
- Show
- Girl Meets World
- Book
- Book Meets World: The Definitive Inside Story of the Hit Sitcom Boy Meets World
- Fishel’s age on return
- 32
- Episodes
- Fishel appeared in all 72 episodes
- Season
- Fishel says she learned of Jacobs’s comment during season 2
What people are saying
I then started creating boundaries. And those boundaries apparently made me ‘difficult.’
I knew they rolled their eyes at me when I would raise my hand with a note.
People respected it. But you would have thought I said, ‘I don’t want anyone to look me in the eyes anymore,’