'Boy Meets World' didn't want to cast Trina McGee as she was told to 'turn down' her 'Black meter'

Boy Meets World Trina McGee opens up in a podcast about why she wasn’t part of the series finale.

Trina McGee who plays Angela Moore during the final three seasons of the sitcom revealed a long-kept secret in an episode of the rewatch podcast, Pod Meets World on September 18.

According to Variety, the actress began, "This is some ground we have not covered. 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.’ [That] was the gist of it."

The actress continued  "I was told that after I shot what was the show before the last episode, which was called ‘Angela’s Ashes’ when I left. When Michael announced to me, we’re going to do another show on Angela, I was so happy, not knowing this was going to be the show before the last show."

McGee also talked about being asked to turn down her "blackness", she said "Coming from Black sitcoms, I always had to have like a Black meter, My Black meter was probably down to a 2.

She divulged, "In the Angela’s Ashes’ episode, somehow my Black meter had slipped up and I was at about a 9, Michael comes over to me and his note was, 'Hey Trina, just turn down the Telma Hopkins about eight notches.' " 

Co-hosts of the podcast, Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle were taken by surprise and appalled by the claim, they expressed regret that the actress was told this more than two decades ago.

Friedle expressed his anger and said, "Can we say for the record, Trina, that never happened."

He continued, "That’s not competitiveness, that’s sociopathy. This pisses me off. This is next level."

McGee patiently replied, "I believe you. I can tell by your reactions. I have had that in my head for so long, and I’ve never watched that show. I’ve always felt like, ugh… That hurt me a long time."

McGee concluded by saying "The real tragedy in all of it is the years that went by that we didn't talk about it because I really kept it, But that's not my entire experience on the show. It's not a racial issue. It's more of a trust, friendship, at the time where we were, and you guys kinda being snot kids."