Boy Meets World’s Maitland Ward Says Ben Savage Was ‘Supportive’ of Her Porn Career

Mar. 15, 2025

Maitland Ward and Ben Savage.Photo:Ethan Miller/Getty; Rob Kim/Getty

Ethan Miller/Getty; Rob Kim/Getty

Maitland Wardshares howBen Savagehas supported her two decades after they wrappedBoy Meets World.

Ward, 47, recently detailed her friendship with Savage, 44, and her transition from acting to adult entertainment in her new memoirMy Escape from Hollywood: Unapologetic, Unfiltered, Unashamed.

Ward joined the ABC sitcom in 1998 as Rachel McGuire, the roommate of Jack Hunter (Matthew Lawrence) and Eric Matthews (Will Friedle). Savage starred as the series lead, Cory Matthews, from the September 1993 premiere to its May 2000 finale.

In an interviewE! Newspublished on Wednesday, Sept. 25, Ward explained that although Savage has pursued a political career since the series, he “was definitely somebody who was supportive” of her career change. Savageran for Congress in 2023and for a seat on the West Hollywood City Council in 2022.

“I really loved his family and his parents,” Ward added. “I definitely supported his campaign and everything. He has a lovely wife, and he’s funny.” Savage married wifeTessa Angermeierin February 2023.

Ward also remarked that her friendship with Savage is more similar to old “high school or college friends,” noting that they have a “really nice” bond.

Maitland Ward on July 31, 1998.abc/getty

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Ward was “nervous” to joinBoy Meets World, but the cast was “very welcoming” and “very nice," she said.

After Ward’s first night, “Ben and the others hazed” her when she went to greet the studio audience after taping, she said. Alongside Savage, Ward, Lawrence and Friedle, the series starredDanielle Fishel,Rider Strong,Trina McGee, Betsy Randle, William Russ andWilliam Daniels.

“Ben was fully involved in this,” she recalled. “And they were all, ‘Every time a new person comes on the show, they have to go out there and do this for the studio audience.’ And I was like, ‘Oh,’ and then finally they let me off the hook.”

But once in the swing of things, she saw Savage “like a little brother on that show.”

“He thought that I was like this leggy sex goddess that was out prowling the night and I fed into that, like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is what I did,’ ” she said. “I loved to play around with him but he definitely was a naughty little brother.”

Ben Savage on September 1, 1998.abc/getty

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All seven seasons ofBoy Meets Worldare available to stream on Disney+.My Escape from Hollywood: Unapologetic, Unfiltered, and Unashamedis now available.

source: people.com