‘Boy Meets World’ star calls Sweeney’s ‘Euphoria’ scenes ‘disgusting’
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Former Disney star Maitland Ward will not be pleased with Sydney Sweeney’s portrayal of an OnlyFans mannequin in season three of “Euphoria.”
During a latest interview with TMZthe 49-year-old former “Boy Meets World” star and present grownup movie actress and OnlyFans creator took subject with the alternatives of Cassie, Sweeney’s character, on the subscription-based web site, significantly the scenes which present her sitting with a pacifier in her mouth and her hair in pigtails as she holds her legs open and is carrying sheer clothes.
“There’s all sorts of stuff that you can’t do,” she stated. “The whole child-baby thing is so disgusting … You just can’t go into that whole underage thing like that. I mean, you can do it to an extent if it’s very, very playful, like, you’re an adult being childlike or something. But just the way it was handled was so gross, and it’s just disgusting and vile.”
She informed TMZ the scenes go in opposition to the rules set forth by OnlyFans, as a result of “you don’t want pedophilia anywhere near pornography,” later including that it’s doable to get kicked off the platform for breaking these violations.
Maitland Ward says OnlyFans has tips and guidelines to maintain pedophiles away. (Robert F. Smith/Getty Images for Webstar Marketing Group, Inc.; Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
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The third season of “Euphoria” sees Sweeney’s character turning to OnlyFans, first to pay for her weddingafter which to make it on her personal after discovering out her husband, Nate Jacobs, performed by Jacob Elordi, is broke and owes individuals hundreds of thousands of {dollars} shortly after saying “I do.”
In addition to seeing her costume like a child, viewers have watched as Sweeney attire as a canine and drinks water from a doggy bowl, and in the newest episode, she wore a low-cut polka dot bodysuit as she was leaping rope for her OnlyFans subscribers. She was additionally seen utilizing a intercourse toy on herself, mailing used underwear to her subscribers and even sucking her personal toe in a video.
Ward took subject with the way in which OnlyFans has been portrayed in these episodes, saying it “is making fun of OnlyFans creators” somewhat than “celebrating” them.
“It’s saying how weird and creepy they are,” Maitland insisted. “There’s so many creators who are really working hard to build their brands every day, and this is really disingenuous.”
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Ward took subject with the way in which OnlyFans is portrayed in season three of “Euphoria.” (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
In a press release to Fox News Digital, Ward reiterated her stance on the present’s portrayal of OnlyFans fashions, noting “this show is treating sex work like a circus act, a freak show.”
“Sydney Sweeney’s portrayal of an OnlyFans creator is setting sex workers real individuals with lives, families, and jobs back by making a mockery not only of what they choose to do with their bodies and lives, but of them as human beings,” Ward stated. “This show is treating sex work like a circus act, a freak show. And of course, they use the traditional blonde, boobie-bimbo stereotype who will do anything for money and a jolt of fame, including posing as a dog licking a bowl and serving up pedophilia fantasies, as the one who goes into sex work.”
She added: “Because, of course, you couldn’t go into sex work unless you were deranged on some level and without standards. This only reinforces the false and harmful stereotypes that sex workers have to fight against every day. It’s completely out of touch. I know it’s ridiculous, but a lot of people already believe these things about sex workers, and this only reinforces those harmful stereotypes. Sex work is treated like a joke — some odd sideshow that’s fun to use for laughs and clickbait. Hollywood does it again.”
As a former child actress, Ward recently shared her story in an episode of Investigation Discovery’s “Hollywood Demons,” telling Fox News Digital in an unique interview in April that “it was very therapeutic to tell the story at the age that I am now.”
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 25: Actress Maitland Ward attends the 2020 Adult Video News Awards at The Joint contained in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on January 25, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. on January 25, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
She additionally touched on what it felt prefer to be a younger actress on the time, having discovered fame as Jessica Forrester in “The Bold and the Beautiful,” and later as Rachel McQuire within the beloved ’90s Disney TV present, “Boy Meets World.”
Ward informed Fox News Digital it typically felt as if studios “wanted to mold and form these young actors into what they wanted them to be” and what they felt audiences would establish with.
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“I think it was such a factory kind of environment. Like you were just a product being sold, and you knew that yourself,” she continued. “I mean, 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 it was just me being stupid. I have to be professional. I have to be part of that Hollywood machine. And that’s really what it was.”
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Ward says she feels extra revered in Hollywood as an grownup movie star. (Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)
The actress started starring in grownup movies about seven years in the past, and informed Fox News Digital in March 2025 that she feels more respect in Hollywood after making that transition.
“I didn’t get anybody coming out hating me for it or anything,” she stated of her determination to pursue pornography. “I really got a lot of positivity overall, which shocked everyone I knew. Everybody thought people were just going to rip me apart, and I was going to be judged and raked across the coals, but I got so much positivity and I think it’s because I was so positive about it, and I was so happy about it.”