Danielle Fishel Was Catfished as a Kid Through 'Boy Meets World' Fan Mail

As it turns out, even people in the '90s got catfished.

Danielle Fishel, who most people know as Topanga Lawrence from Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World, revealed in a new episode of the podcast Pod Meets World that she was catfished by a fan when she was around 12 years old.

In the episode "Q&A Meets World Part 1" of the podcast Fishel shares with Rider Strong and Will Friedle, the 41-year-old actress opened up about the experience.

She recalled getting letters from a young girl in 1993, noting that they connected over their shared love of gymnastics.

Fishel explained, "I got a letter, in like '93, from a young girl, and she included pictures of herself in it, and she was in gymnastics. And she wrote me this handwritten letter about, you know, that she was a fan, and I wrote her back."

She continued, "Then she sent me another letter and we started this correspondence back and forth, and I felt very close to her."

The Boy Meets World actress went on to explain that the girl told her that her parents died when she was younger, so she lived with her older brother.

Fishel said, "at some point, maybe in the second letter she wrote me, she included a picture of her brother, a couple pictures of her brother, and her brother was several years older, a good-looking guy."

Strong interrupted her, saying, "I don't like where this is going," before Fishel said that the girl praised her brother for being there for her. She also sent over her phone number.

While it might be clear to some people where this is going, Fishel made sure to clarify that her "mom is participating in me writing back...and she's reading what this girl is writing to me, and my mom is like, 'Yeah, this girl, seems like you would be friends.'"

Fishel then tried to call the girl, instead getting the brother's voicemail. She continued, trying a few more times, but she never got an answer or a call back.

At this point in the podcast episode, Strong and Friedle jumped in to say that they believed the girl wasn't real.

They were right.

Fishel stated that the truth became clear when they "got a letter from her brother saying that she had died." Fishel recalls her mom figuring it out first, stating, "And my mom woke up in the middle of the night, and was like, 'She never existed. It's always been him.'"

But it gets even worse. The 41-year-old said that "he started showing up at my school and telling people he was there to pick me up."

Unfortunately, the conversation delved into a different topic at that point, so Fishel never finished the story.

It's unclear what happened to the stalking fan—maybe the police got involved, or maybe, he eventually gave up, but hopefully Fishel has a chance to give fans some closure in a future episode of Pod Meets World.

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