'Boy Meets World' actors Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong, and Will Friedle open up about their former friendship with season 5 guest star Brian Peck, who went on to be convicted of child molestation.
"He turned us against the victim," Will Friedle said on an episode of his "Pod Meets World" podcast.Sydney Bucksbaum is a writer at Entertainment Weekly covering all things pop culture – but TV is her one true love. She currently lives in Los Angeles but grew up in Chicago so please don't make fun of her accent when it slips out.when discussing their former friendship with season 5 guest star Brian Peck, who would go on to be convicted of child molestation.
Fishel wondered if Peck being an out gay man helped him get a "pass" from parents for spending time with actors 20 years younger than him. "There was probably a part of them that didn’t say it because they were afraid it was going to be taken as homophobia, instead of, 'This is a boundary, gay or not. This is a boundary between adults and kids,'" Fishel said.
"He didn’t say that nothing had happened," Rider said. "So by the time we heard about this case and knew anything about it, it was always in the context of, 'I did this thing, I am guilty. I am going to take whatever punishment the government determines, but I’m a victim of jailbait. There was this hot guy, I just did this thing and he’s underage.' And we bought that storyline.
"'Look at all the famous people you brought with you, and it doesn’t change what you did to my kid,'" he remembered her saying, while he "just sat there wanting to die. It was like, 'What the hell am I doing here?' It was horrifying all the way around. We weren’t told the whole story, but it doesn’t change the fact that we did it. I still can’t get the words out to describe all of the things that I’m feeling inside of myself.
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