Published April 26, 2026, 10:09 a.m. ET

Maitland Ward is pulling back the curtain on what she describes as a deeply unsettling experience growing up in Hollywood — and she’s not sugarcoating it.

In a new interview tied to her upcoming appearance on Hollywood Demons , the former Boy Meets World star says the industry didn’t just shape young actors — it manufactured them.

“I think it was such a factory kind of environment. Like you were just a product being sold, and you knew that yourself,” Ward told Fox News Digital . “I have to be professional. I have to be part of that Hollywood machine. And that’s really what it was.”

That idea — of being treated less like a person and more like a commodity — is at the center of Ward’s story.…