OMG Mr. Feeny From Boy Meets World Had An 'Open Marriage' -- And His Wife HATED It!

19.01.2023 - 06:35 / perezhilton.com

Millions of ’90s kids know Mr. Feeny as a source of sage advice for the Matthews family and friends on Boy Meets World. But it turns out the actor who played him was less about the palace of wisdom and more into the path of excess — at least early on.

William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett Daniels have been married for an impressive 72 years. But early on in the marriage, things weren’t exactly wine and roses. Bonnie, also an actress — you might know her from St. Elsewhere, is 93 years old now and looking back in a memoir called Middle of the Rainbow.

One recollection that will be hard for many fans of Feeny to hear is about the “painful” early years of their marriage. She told Fox News Digital while promoting the upcoming tell-all:

Sorry, WHAT?! Mr. Feeny had an open marriage?? Bonnie continued:

Right, they got married in 1951. While that was before the free love movement of the ’60s and ’70s, we’re talking about actors in NYC here — they were probably a decade before a lot of the country in their bohemian ways. Plus that entire era is still relatively early for their relationship.

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But it doesn’t sound like she was into it! Is it possible William was just kind of a f**kboy?? We mean, we aren’t talking about the sweet, avuncular man we know. This guy was only 23 years old when they got hitched. He was a different guy back then. As she puts it, he was “a very angry young man” back then. And frankly, the way Bonnie tells it, it kinda sounds like he was more into the open thing than she was. She explained:

In the memoir, per Fox, she does tell of an affair she had for months. She writes that she “never felt guilty” about it because “I never felt tied to