Trina McGee is revealing some more hard truths from behind the scenes of the beloved sitcom, Boy Meets World. The series alum appeared on a recent episode of Pod Meets World, a BMW rewatch podcast hosted by stars Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle and Rider Strong, where she revealed why she didn’t appear in the show’s series finale.
McGee played Strong’s onscreen girlfriend, Angela Moore, for three seasons and was the only Black actress on the celebrated ’90s show. Over the last few years, she’s opened up about the negative experiences that came with the fan-favorite role, including being called “Aunt Jemima” by Friedle, and feeling unwelcome by other actors on the show — including Fishel, when McGee guest starred on the revival series, Girl Meets World, in 2015.
During the podcast’s new episode, McGee alleged that she had been told that her castmates didn’t want her involved in the finale. Her last appearance was in the penultimate episode in which Angela leaves with her father for Europe, making her the only main character not to appear in the series finale.
“I was told, in kind of a weird, off-handed way by a very important person, that you guys all went to [showrunner] Michael Jacobs, and you said, ‘We don’t want her in the last episode. She’s somehow taking our light,’ was the gist of it,” McGee said. “I was told that after I shot what was the show before the last episode, which was called ‘Angela’s Ashes’ when I left.”
“That was really hurtful to me for a long time,” the actress shared, referring to the incident as “ground we have not covered.”
Fishel, Friedle and Strong quickly assured McGee that she had been misled. “Can we say for the record, Trina, that never happened,” Friedle said. “That’s not competitiveness, that’s sociopathy. This pisses me off. This is next level.”
Although McGee noted that she believed the trio, she shared that there were several other experiences that made her time on the show markedly different from her white co-stars.
“Coming from Black sitcoms, I always had to have a Black meter,” she joked, explaining that while on BMW she had tuned her Blackness “probably down to a two.” But she recalled when she had somehow had “slipped up” when filming her final appearance as Angela and “was at about a nine.”