Danielle Fishel Recalls 'Creepy' Interaction with a Studio Executive While Filming 'Boy Meets World'

Danielle Fishel is looking back at her time on Boy Meets World.

While speaking with her Pod Meets World co-hosts and former co-stars Rider Strong and Will Friedle, the 42-year-old actress recalled a “creepy” interaction she had with a studio executive when she was 16 years old.

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Danielle explained that her role on BMW meant that she became an “object of desire at such a young age.”

“I had people tell me they had my 18th birthday on their calendar,” she continued. “I had a male executive — I did a calendar [shoot] at 16 — and he specifically told me he had a certain calendar month in his bedroom.”

Danielle added that she was initially shocked by his admission, but explained her “immediate thought after that was: ‘Yes, because we are peers, and this is how you relate to peers.’”

“As a kid, I always wanted to be older. I always wanted to be an adult. I wanted to be seen as an adult,” she noted. “So getting adult male attention as a teenage girl felt like — I didn’t think of it as being creepy or weird.”

“I felt like it was validation that I was mature and I was an adult and I was capable and that they were seeing me the way I was, not for the number on a page. And in hindsight, that is absolutely wrong,” she continued.

Rider went on to say that Danielle was “very mature” and “very advanced” as a teenager, noting that he saw her as “confident” when they were working together.

“I’ve always been able to hold a conversation with an adult. I can look you in the eye. I’ve always been those things,” Danielle said. “But in a romantic, male-gaze sense, I should not have been outwardly talked about at 14, 15, 16 years old. And I was, even directly to me.”

“I didn’t really process how it affected me as a teenager — or how it affected me in my 20s or even in my 30s — up until the last few years,” she added. “And then I was really able to look back on it and connect the dots.”

A few months ago, Rider and Danielle revealed which episode of BMW they were uncomfortable filming. Find out what they said here.