{"id":471245,"date":"2026-06-11T02:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/471245\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:03:08","slug":"girl-meets-world-exec-allegedly-made-sabrina-carpenter-rowan-blanchard-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/471245\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Meets World Exec Allegedly Made Sabrina Carpenter, Rowan Blanchard Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Friedle&#8217;s Racially Insensitive Remark to Trina McGee<\/p>\n<p>In January 2020, Trina McGee (Angela) spoke out about <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realtrinamcgee\/status\/1216787601694150657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">disrespect<\/a> she experienced on Boy Meets World, including being &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realtrinamcgee\/status\/1216319034842468352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">called Aunt Jemima on set<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later, she revealed Will made the remark and that he apologized to her &#8220;22 years ago and again days ago in a in a three-page letter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We talked more on it and he acknowledged that he really wasn\u2019t educated enough in his early twenties to know he was truly offending me,&#8221; she wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B_DarECho3p\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> in April 2020. &#8220;THIS SHOULD AND COULD BE A TEACHING MOMENT FOR ALL.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Trina and Will moved forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1346885\/boy-meets-world-cast-mends-years-long-rift-with-trina-mcgee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Will apologized<\/a> to me and I forgave him, I then apologized to him for making the statements public because his joke came out of just not knowing, not viciousness and he forgave me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That\u2019s what friends do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Will recalled on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1119-pod-meets-world-98589488\/episode\/trina-mcgee-meets-world-101939909\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pod Meets World<\/a> in 2022, he saw Trina exit her dressing room in a &#8220;big red headscarf&#8221; and &#8220;attached no cultural significance to that whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thinking he was teasing her like he did the rest of the cast, he continued, he decided to &#8220;make fun of her red hat.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s as far as my dumbass privileged mind saw it,&#8221; Will said. &#8220;So right before I walked on for my part, I walked by and went &#8216;love your syrup&#8217; and walked onto the set thinking boom, zing, just got her for her hat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trina told Will the joke wasn&#8217;t OK, and he was &#8220;mortified,&#8221; noting the moment changed his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can\u2019t just throw things out there because you think it\u2019s funny and walk away,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You could be hurting people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Friedle&#8217;s Racially Insensitive Remark to Trina McGee In January 2020, Trina McGee (Angela) spoke out about disrespect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-471245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}