Boy Meets World alum Will Friedle was rushed to the hospital last week after peeing blood, then learned he had a kidney stone he is still dealing with.
The 50-year-old actor said he got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and found blood in his urine. His wife, Susan Martens, pointed out that he had gone pale, and the couple headed to the hospital for a short stay.
Page Six reported that doctors diagnosed Friedle with a kidney stone. He shared the episode on Thursday’s “Pod Meets World” podcast and made clear the problem had not fully resolved.
Friedle told listeners he remains in the middle of the ordeal and even joked he might have to step away early if the stone decided to pass.
"I'm still in the midst of this thing,"
Blood in the urine is a common symptom of kidney stones, a point the Cleveland Clinic has long noted in its patient guidance. Friedle’s case followed that pattern: sudden visible blood, a pale look his wife caught, and a prompt hospital trip that produced the diagnosis.
The hospital stay came with an unexpected twist. Staff recognized him from his role as Eric Matthews on the 1990s ABC sitcom “Boy Meets World.” One nurse even walked up and delivered his famous “Feeny call.”
Friedle said the attention that day outstripped anything he had experienced before.
"For some reason, on this day, in that hospital, I was more famous than I've ever been in my life,"
He added, with dry timing, that a hospital was “the perfect place to be recognized.” The short stay mixed real medical worry with the odd celebrity moment of hearing his old sitcom catchphrase at bedside.
Friedle has spoken openly for years about long-term anxiety. He first felt it in the late 1990s while filming the last season of “Boy Meets World,” when he was 23. He has described being six or eight weeks into the symptoms, staying silent about it, and taking medication for roughly a month that left him packing on weight.
"But my life was spiraling at this point. Badly."
By 2018, at New York Comic Con, he explained the career shift that followed: he moved into voice acting and away from on-camera roles because of the anxiety. In a June 6 interview with People, he said people never fully get over it, but they learn to cope until it becomes more of a nuisance than a crisis. He revisited the same history on a January 2026 podcast episode.
That earlier struggle sits alongside the newer medical scare. Friedle is still managing the kidney stone while continuing to talk plainly about both the physical emergency and the mental-health load he has carried since his twenties.
Sudden blood in the toilet is never a joke, even for a sitcom star, getting checked fast is the adult move, and Friedle did exactly that.