Actress Trina McGee is best known for her role as Angela Moore, on the hit ABC Television show ‘Boy Meets World’.
While it may have seemed all good on our television screen every Friday night, Trina says that it was just the opposite behind the scenes. On the show she was in an interracial relationship with Rider Strong, who played Shawn Hunter.
Trina recently decided to clear the air about her experience with racism on the set. She says there were 3 people specifically that went out of their way to make her feel uncomfortable.
The two confirmed co-stars are Will Friedle who played Eric Matthews, and Danielle Fishel who played Topanga. Since she denied any wrong doing from Strong, the last co-star is believed to be Ben Savage, with whom McGee says she does not speak to at all.
She says to Yahoo that Friedle who called her “Aunt Jemima” back stage, sent her a long apology email. “He said that it was a journey for him since that day that he had called me Aunt Jemima. And it was a journey of thinking about himself, thinking about what he’s been taught as acceptable to other cultures … what might hurt people.”
Called aunt Jemima on set during hair and make up. Called a bitter bitch when I quietly waited for my scene to finish rehearsing that was being f’ed up over and over due to episode featuring my character. Told “ it was nice of you to join us” like a stranger after 60 episodes
— Trina McGee (@realtrinamcgee) January 12, 2020
Said happy hellos to be greeted with blank cold stares. Dissed for believing in God in front of extras. Fuckery was real. All truth. stayed nice. Not mad. Just feeling free to comment on 20 plus years of disrespectful behavior.#Trinamcgee #realtalk #shameonyou #imdonebeingnice
— Trina McGee (@realtrinamcgee) January 12, 2020
Danielle Fishel went to Twitter admitting that she was cold to McGee when they reunited for the now too canceled “Girl, Meets World”.
I owed @realtrinamcgee an apology for being rude, cold, & distant when she guest starred on GMW (her tweet regarding warm hellos being met with cold blank stares was about me). Trina and I spoke over a month ago and she gracefully accepted my apology. ❤️
— Danielle Fishel Karp (@daniellefishel) June 7, 2020
This happens more than you know.
