‘Boy Meets World’ Cast Recalls Befriending Co-Star Later Convicted Of Child Molestation
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Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle discussed the trauma of initially defending their Season 5 guest star, Brian Peck, before the truth came out.
Monday’s episode of “Pod Meets World” took a dour turn as Will Friedle and Rider Strong, the former child stars of “Boy Meets World” who host the reflective podcast, detailed their former friendship with Brian Peck — a Season 5 guest star and convicted child molester.
The otherwise lighthearted podcast invited family therapist Kati Morton to explore “the difficult subjects of grooming, childhood sexual abuse, and their effects on victims” after its hosts were contacted to participate in an upcoming documentary on the subject.
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Strong and Friedle were teenagers when “Boy Meets World” premiered in 1993. Peck was in his 40s when he joined the ABC show for a two-episode arc in 1997 and befriended them.
According to court documents obtained in 2015 by The Daily Mail, however, Peck was accused in 2004 of child molestation and pleaded no contest. He was reportedly convicted of a lewd act against a child and oral copulation of a person under 16 and spent 16 months in prison.
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