Boy Meets World’s Maitland Ward Says Confrontation Was “Orchestrated”

Will
Friedle’s
Racially
Insensitive
Remark
to
Trina
McGee

In
January
2020,

Trina
McGee
(Angela)
spoke
out
about

disrespect
she
experienced
on

Boy
Meets
World,
including
being “called
Aunt
Jemima
on
set.”

Later,
she
revealed
Will
made
the
remark
and
that
he
apologized
to
her “22
years
ago
and
again
days
ago
in
a
in
a
three-page
letter.”

“We
talked
more
on
it
and
he
acknowledged
that
he
really
wasn’t
educated
enough
in
his
early
twenties
to
know
he
was
truly
offending
me,”
she
wrote
on

Instagram
in
April
2020. “THIS
SHOULD
AND
COULD
BE
A
TEACHING
MOMENT
FOR
ALL.”

Ultimately,
Trina
and
Will
moved
forward.

“Will
apologized
to
me
and
I
forgave
him,
I
then
apologized
to
him
for
making
the
statements
public
because
his
joke
came
out
of
just
not
knowing,
not
viciousness
and
he
forgave
me,”
she
said. “That’s
what
friends
do.”

As
Will
recalled
on

Pod
Meets
World
in
2022,
he
saw
Trina
exit
her
dressing
room
in
a “big
red
headscarf”
and “attached
no
cultural
significance
to
that
whatsoever.”

Thinking
he
was
teasing
her
like
he
did
the
rest
of
the
cast,
he
continued,
he
decided
to “make
fun
of
her
red
hat.”

“That’s
as
far
as
my
dumbass
privileged
mind
saw
it,”
Will
said. “So
right
before
I
walked
on
for
my
part,
I
walked
by
and
went ‘love
your
syrup’
and
walked
onto
the
set
thinking
boom,
zing,
just
got
her
for
her
hat.”