Pod Meets World podcast hosts Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong, and Will Friedle, former actors of Boy Meets World, talk about their friendship with child abuser Brian Peck. The Monday podcast show took a serious turn with the discussion on the subject of grooming, childhood sexual abuse, and their effects on victims, with a family therapist, Kati Morton.
Boy Meets World Stars Discusses Their Relation With Child Abuser On Their Show
Boy Meets World actors Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong, and Will Friedle host a podcast show called “Pod Meets World” that shares anecdotes on the show. On Monday, the three actors were joined by a family therapist, Kati Morton, who discussed the effects on a victim of childhood abuse and grooming.
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The three actors, who famously portrayed Topanga Lawrence, Shawn Hunter, and Eric Mathews, shared snippets of their former relationship with Brian Peck, featured as a guest star in Boy Meets World Season 5. In 2003, after being found guilty of both oral copulation of a person under the age of sixteen and a lewd act against a minor, Brian Peck was sentenced to sixteen months in jail.
The actors of Boy Meets World were contacted recently for a comment on Brian Peck for an upcoming documentary, Quiet On Set, on alleged abuse at Nickelodeon. The actors were relatively young then, and Brian was a pleasant 40-year-old man who swiftly joined their company.
Rider Strong and Will Friedle described how he progressively became a part of their lives and how they started spending time with him practically every day, both on and off set. Friedle described this man as the kind of guy everyone wanted to hang out with since he was so amusing and good at what he did!
The hosts also disclosed how he was able to avoid being seen with actors who were over two decades his junior. They said that it was primarily because of the changing perception of the gay community in the late 1990s, which is most likely why the parents never voiced any complaints regarding these interactions with him.
The subject of Peck’s deception in leading them to believe he had been wrongly charged in 2003 came up next. Sadly, the actors accepted him when he cleverly altered the version to make it appear as though he was the victim, and they even went against the demands of the actual victim’s family to defend him in court.
The actors talked about how the victim’s mother called them out and how they were still embarrassed by what they did. They hoped that by sharing their experience, audiences would now understand how easily they too, could end up misled or manipulated by someone with ill intentions.
