Maitland Ward has spoken out about her time on the hit show Boy Meets World, making a surprising comparison between her salary from the show and what she makes now on OnlyFans.
The former Disney Channel star, 49, played Rachel McGuire on Boy Meets World from 1998 to 2000. Rachel was introduced at the end of season six as a new roommate for the show’s main characters, Jack Hunter (played by Matthew Lawrence) and Eric Matthews (portrayed by Will Friedle).
Ward recalled working on the Nineties sitcom during a new episode of Hollywood Demons, which airs Monday on Investigation Discovery.
“On Boy Meets World, I think I made $20,000 or $25,000 an episode,” she said, according to US Weekly.
Despite the show’s success, Ward noted that she had a constant fear of being fired at any moment during her two years on the series.
“You don’t have all the guarantees out there,” she explained. “In porn or OnlyFans, I can get six figures a month. There is also my adult film sales and I am creating this brand. I can make it go for as long as I want it to go.”
After Boy Meets World, Ward later appeared in the 2004 comedy White Chicks and the 2005 sitcom Out of Practice. However, she ultimately opted for a new career endeavor, entering the adult film industry in 2019.
During a recent interview with Fox News, Ward reflected on her experience working in Hollywood.
“Back then, I think they looked at these young actors as like property coming in,” she said. “And I really believe the studios, they wanted to mold and form these young actors into what they wanted them to be, what they needed them to be for the company and for the audience, to what they felt would identify with.”
“I think it was such a factory kind of environment. You were just a product being sold, and you knew that yourself,” she continued. “I didn't think anything was wrong at the time with anything that was going on really. I mean it felt, ill at ease in my own body and all my feelings and stuff. But I thought that was just me being stupid. I have to be professional. I have to be part of that Hollywood machine.”
Ward previously argued that she’s been treated with more respect from her peers after joining OnlyFans.
“I'm pitching my memoir into a TV format and talking with people,” she told Fox News Digital last year, referring to her 2022 book, Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood. “They're so respectful, and they're so positive about my story, especially younger people and different people that I speak to in Hollywood and stuff.
“They're just much more receptive to the story. And I really feel like I have a lot of positivity around it.”
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