Maitland Ward, who starred in Boy Meets World and The Bold and the Beautiful, recently claimed that young actors were treated like a “product” in the “Hollywood machine.”
During an interview with Fox News Digital published on April 26, Ward, now 49, opened up about her experience as a child actor ahead of appearing in Investigation Discovery’s Hollywood Demons.
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