These boys met a whole new world.
Will Friedle, who starred as Eric Matthews in the early 1990s sitcom “Boy Meets World,” revealed Monday that he used to re-sell porn to his buddies as a side business at age 11.
During an appearance on the podcast “Hey Dude … The 90s Called,” the former child actor explained that he would often buy the X-rated magazines whenever he would go to New York to audition for roles.
“I’d get off at Port Authority, and my manager would pick me up — most of the time — and I would walk the streets at 11 years old,” Friedle, 47, said. “I started smoking at a very young age, so I would go and I would buy cigarettes.”
According to the “Kim Possible” actor, that’s when he realized he could start supplementing his income by selling the magazines to his friends.
“I knew I could sell them for way more money to my friends back in Connecticut,” he went on. “I would stop at the kiosk and they would look at me and say, ‘Well, you’re 11, so of course, here are cigarettes and porn.’”
“This is like the dark ‘Home Alone,'” the show’s co-host David Lascher said, causing Friedle to laugh.
According to the actor, his parents, who were both lawyers at the time, were not pleased when they eventually found out about his little side hustle.
“I tell my parents these stories now and they are retroactively mortified that any of this ever happened,” he said. “But I loved it, you know.”
As for critics, he added: “They think I’m lying or they think my parents had a serious problem.”
Despite his questionable acts while in the Big Apple, Friedle said that his time spent in New York City taught him more about life than his hometown of Avon, Connecticut.
“[Avon] was a wonderful place to grow up, but I experienced more real life in the three or four hours I was in New York City every week than I ever did in Avon,” the “My Date With the President’s Daughter” star declared. “And it was a great way to see the world.”
In August 2023, Friedle and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” alum Melissa Joan Hart revealed that they engaged in “whirlwind romance” in their early teenage years.
“I was with you for, like, your 14th birthday or 15th. Remember we went to some place where it [had] those big tanks you could drive or shoot the tennis balls at?” Friedle recalled while interviewing Hart, 47, on his “Pod Meets World” podcast.
“We went out for that, and we were, like, making googly eyes at each other. And by the end of the night, we were ‘dating.’”
Hart joked that they called each other “a few times on a landline.”