Boy Meets World’s Maitland Ward Says Ben Savage Was ‘Supportive’ of Her Porn Career 

Maitland Ward tells how Ben Savage supported her for two decades after they married A boy meets the world.

Ward, 47, recently detailed her friendship with Savage, 44, and her transition from acting to adult entertainment in her new memoir My escape from Hollywood: unapologetic, unfiltered, unashamed.

Ward joined the ABC sitcom in 1998 as Rachel McGuire, the roommate of Jack Hunter (Matthew Lawrence) and Eric Matthews (Will Friedle). Savage played the series lead, Cory Matthews, from its premiere in September 1993 until its finale in May 2000.

In an interview with E! In news released Wednesday, Sept. 25, Ward explained that while Savage pursued a political career after the series, he was “definitely someone who was supportive” of her career change. Savage is running for Congress in 2023 and for a seat on the West Hollywood City Council in 2022.

“I think it was cool,” Ward told the paper. “He is in politics and he was behind the fact that I am in pornography. Some people shy away from it and feel that feeling of taboo. It surprised me.”

“I really loved his family and his parents,” Ward added. “I definitely supported his campaign and everything. He has a wonderful wife and is funny.” Savage married Tessa Angermeier in February 2023.

Ward also noted that her friendship with Savage is more like old “friends from high school or college,” noting that they have a “really nice” relationship.

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Maitland Ward on 31 July 1998.

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Ward was “nervous” to join A boy meets the worldbut the actors were “very welcoming” and “very nice,” she said.

After Ward’s first night, “Ben and the others were picking on her” when she went to greet the studio audience after the taping, she said. Along with Savage, Ward, Lawrence and Friedle, the series starred Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong, Trina McGee, Betsy Randle, William Russ and William Daniels.

“They told me I would have to go there and sing the song myself,” she told E! News, adding, “I don’t remember what the song was, but he had it all memorized.”

“Ben was totally into this,” she recalled. “And everybody said, ‘Every time a new person comes on the show, they have to go out there and do this for the studio audience.’ I said, ‘Oh,’ and then they finally let me off the hook.”

But once in the swing of things, she saw Savage “as a little brother on that show.”

“He thought I was like this long-legged sex goddess who was out walking at night, and I got into it, like, ‘Oh yeah, I did this,'” she said. “I loved playing with him, but he was definitely the mean little brother.”

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Ben Savage September 1, 1998

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All seven seasons A boy meets the world are available to stream on Disney+. My escape from Hollywood: unapologetic, unfiltered and unashamed is now available.

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