- "Boy Meets World" star Danielle Fishel said Ben Savage "ghosted" her and other cast members.
- She said she was "so close" to her on-screen husband until 2019 when he stopped checking in on her after her son was born.
Millennials' favorite "TGIF" couple Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence are just a memory.
Danielle Fishel recently told Variety that her on-screen husband Ben Savage "ghosted" her and the rest of the cast starting around 2019, without giving them an explanation about his decision.
"He just kind of disappeared from our lives," she told Senior TV Features Editor Emily Longeretta during a joint interview with costars Will Friedle and Rider Strong for the 30th anniversary of the show. "He ghosted us."
According to Friedle, who played Cory's brother Eric on the show, no argument happened between Savage and any other cast members that would help them understand his actions, he just stopped responding to them.
Savage and Fishel reprised their roles as Cory and Topanga for the Disney Channel spinoff "Girl Meets World," which ran for a total of three seasons from 2014 to 2017. Friedle and Strong (who played Cory's best friend Shawn) also reprised their roles for at least one episode.
Fishel told Longeretta that she was still "so, so close" to Savage in 2019 when her first son with husband Jensen Karp was born prematurely.
"He was checking in with me regularly," Fishel remembered — but then communication just stopped.
The director is hopeful that her friendship with Savage has a future. She's currently cohosting the "Boy Meets World" rewatch podcast "Pod Meets World" with Strong and Friedle and said that the experience has taught her that "everyone is on their own journey" and perceives experiences differently.
"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," she continued. "I don't think this is the end of our story — but time will tell."
Friedle told Longeretta he was more hurt by Savage's actions and it's a "sore subject" for him, especially because he and Savage were getting to know each other as adults during convention trips related to their shows.
The voiceover actor said he's "tried and tried" to reconnect with Savage, even telling his former on-screen brother to expect a call from him "every day" unless Savage picked up and told him to stop.
"That lasted about three weeks or a month, every single day," Friedel said, adding that his wife had to tell him to stop putting himself through the ritual because it obviously wasn't changing Savage's mind.
A representative for Savage didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
IHeartRadio's "Pod Meets World" airs new episodes weekly.