Danielle Fishel Says She Was Worried Her 'Boy Meets World' Podcast Would 'Ruin' the Sitcom (Exclusive)

The actress hosts the 'Pod Meets World' podcast with her 'Boy Meets World' costars Rider Strong and William Friedle

Danielle Fishel is speaking candidly about the reason why she and her Pod Meets World collaborators feared that the program would "ruin" Boy Meets World.

The actress, 42, chatted exclusively with PEOPLE at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Friday, when she revealed that she, Rider Strong and William Friedle — who rewatch every episode of Boy Meets World and share memories and anecdotes of the series on the podcast — thought it might taint fans’ feelings of the sitcom.

“We were worried we might ruin the show,” Fishel, who played the role of Topanga on the series, said. "We don't want our criticisms or our critiques or our experiences to in any way change what your opinion of the show is. They're just our honest opinions, and we can't do it if we're not going to be honest.”

“I was just left with one overarching feeling about the whole experience as opposed to the show and what its values were, or what its key points were, or how good it was,” she continued. “And so now getting to watch it, I'm like, ‘Man, it's a really good show,' and what a great experience we had.”

Looking back at the first conversations about potentially launching the podcast, Strong, 43, who starred as Shawn, added, “Ultimately we settled on it as a sort of journey, rather than just watching the show and talking about how great it is, which we all agree, it is actually great. We wanted it to be more of a personal journey for us, and to just be honest."

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Boy Meets World ran for seven seasons and ended in 2000.

For a few years, Disney+ even satisfied fans’ desire for a reboot with Girl Meets World, which ran from 2014 to 2017 and followed the life of Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga’s daughter, Riley (Rowan Blanchard).

Though both have long come to a close, the cast has remained close friends throughout the years.

In April, the gang came together to celebrate William Daniels’ 96th birthday with his wife, Bartlett Daniels, ahead of their appearances at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo 2023.

Related: The '90s Nostalgia You Didn't Know You Needed: Every Single Time the 'Boy Meets World' Cast Reunited

Fishel's most recent comments come after she, Strong and Friedle, 47, were joined by Matthew Lawrence (Jack), Anthony Tyler Quinn (Jonathan), Betsy Randle (Amy), Lee Noris (Stuart), Trina McGee (Angela), Daniels (Mr. Feeny) and Bonnie Bartlett Daniels (Lila) at 90s Con in Tampa last weekend.

Fishel spoke of the depth of the friendships among the cast members during the panel, explaining, "Over this many years and this much time together in different work atmospheres, you have fights, you have falling outs, you have moments where you come back together."

"Because we are constantly put back together, there have been times where we’ve needed space from each other, and we’ve taken long distances," she continued. "Yet, when you really commit to a relationship, when you really commit to this idea that we are always going to be in each other's lives, the amount of growth and grace and forgiveness and compassion and true knowing of each other that we now have — that we never would have had had we written each other off and said 'I’m done with you, I don’t want to see you again.' "

Fishel concluded, "So, like, that commitment to a relationship is such a lesson for everybody."

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