Boy Meets World stars Will Friedle and Danielle Fishel shared rare comments on Ben Savage “ghosting” them six years after their falling-out.
During an interview with People published on Wednesday, June 3, Friedle, 49 — who played Eric Matthews, the older brother of Savage’s character, Cory Matthews — confessed, “There’s so many times I want to pick up the phone and still do.”
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